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  • Final Push: Tell the Senate to Protect Farmers from Foreclosure Through Harvest

    Thursday, May 14

    Contact Your Senator TODAY After years of poor returns, farm prices have destabilized even further due to COVID-19. Nearly all...

Upcoming Events

  • LSP Summer Grazing Photo Contest

    June 19, 12 am-July 24, 5 pm

    LSP’s Bridge to Soil Health Program has launched a July 2020 photo contest! Celebrate the environmental stewardship of...

  • CANCELED: LSP 18th Annual Potluck Cookout

    July 23, 5:30 pm-8:30 pm

    The Land Stewardship Project's 18th Annual Potluck Cookout will be held the evening of Thursday, July 23, in the yard at...

  • Farm Dreams Workshop

    August 4, 6 pm-8 pm

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    LSP Farm Beginnings Early Bird Deadline Aug. 1

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    Enter LSP's Summer Grazing Photo Contest Today — Great Prizes!

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    Prairie Pedal Pusher Bike Tour & Fundraiser Aug. 29 in W MN

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    RT @HEAL_Food: We know that conditions are only getting worse for meatpacking workers. We know that to address this public health crisis, w…
    Wednesday, July 8, 12:52 pm CDT
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    Wednesday, July 8, 12:51 pm CDT
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    RT @goodfoodcities: #Justice4TysonWorkers https://t.co/Ur33huWMKo
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    32,000+ meatpacking workers are infected with #COVID19 yet basic safety measures are still not required. @lspnow +… https://t.co/9FsK4q6Vzq
    Wednesday, July 8, 11:25 am CDT
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    The vast majority of meatpacking workers are people of color. @TysonFoods has decided their lives don’t matter by f… https://t.co/JyC8nJj6HE
    Wednesday, July 8, 11:11 am CDT

News

  • Virtual field Day to Explore No-till Oat & Rye production June 24

    Tuesday, June 9
    BYRON, Minn. — Farmer Martin Larsen will host a virtual field day in partnership with Practical Farmers...

  • Legislature Protects Farmers From Foreclosure Through Harvest Time

    Monday, May 18
    SAINT PAUL, Minn. — As a sign of the dire financial situation the state's agriculture faces, the...

  • Rural Residents: MPCA Ignores Environmental Science & Policy in Failing to Order an EIS for Mega-Dairy

    Monday, April 27
    LEWISTON, Minn. — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has ignored sound environmental science and...

Blog

  • Time to Level the Farming Playing Fields for BIPOC

    Friday, June 19

    Systemic racism is ingrained in all of our institutions, including our farm and food system. Achieving structural change and justice begins with standing together, walking alongside each other, and lifting up voices that need to be heard to express...

  • Channeling Water's Power Profitably

    Wednesday, June 17

    To Tom Cotter, the various natural resources his farming operation relies on don’t operate in a vacuum. Rather, they have a relational quality — the role one resource plays in keeping his business viable depends on how it interacts...

  • LSP Statement on the Police Killing of George Floyd

    Tuesday, May 26

    We at the Land Stewardship Project are shocked, saddened, and outraged at the news that a black man died while in police custody Monday night, less than three blocks from the Minneapolis office of the Land Stewardship Project. Video...

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  • Ear to the Ground No. 241: A Farm Transition Power Team

    Friday, June 19
    A desire to continue a legacy (and a love of weed-pulling) eases Foxtail Farm into the hands of the next generation.

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  • Montevideo
    117 South First Street
    Montevideo, MN 56265
    (320) 269-2105
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    180 E. Main Street
    Lewiston, MN 55952
    (507) 523-3366
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    821 E. 35th Street #200
    Minneapolis, MN 55407
    (612) 722-6377
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