Are you a beginning farmer looking to rent or purchase working farmland in the Midwest? Or are you an established farmer/landowner in the Midwest who is seeking a beginning farmer to purchase or rent your working farmland, or to work with in a partnership situation?
The Land Stewardship Project’s Land Access Land Legacy Team has simple application forms available for people seeking farmland or farmers. (You can find the forms to the right).
Once the form is filled out, the information can be circulated by LSP via the Land Stewardship Letter, LIVE-WIRE and through our various networks. For more information, contact LSP’s Karen Stettler via e-mail or at 612-767-9885; or LSP’s Robin Moore via e-mail or at 612-767-9480.
Listings included on this web page will be removed after 60 days. If you would like the listing to be renewed after 60 days, please e-mail Moore or Stettler. Below are our latest Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse listings.
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Other Resources
• LSP’s Farm Transition Planning Course
• Farm Transition Resources
A Clearinghouse Testimonial
“We were frequent visitors to the LSP Farmland Clearinghouse before we actually thought we were ready to buy a farm. We were in our second season of renting, thinking that we could continue renting where we were for another three-to-five years, when we saw our future farm listing on the Clearinghouse. As we left the farm we found on the Clearinghouse after that first visit, we knew we needed to try to buy it even if we weren’t totally ready; it was our dream farm.
“It took nine months to work through the Farm Service Agency (FSA) loan process. My advice for beginning farmers wanting to start a farm in general is always to start small and wait to buy land. Build a business that can support a loan payment before going into a huge amount of debt. Once you are ready to buy land, expect delays — the FSA doesn’t work quickly. If you are going to use an FSA loan program, be sure you meet the requirements before starting the process. Even though it took nine long months to close on our loan, I would still recommend it. The requirements are reasonable (if rigid), and the benefits and interest rates make it worth the hassle.
“Landowners that want to list on the Clearinghouse, I hope, will also know how long the FSA loan process may take, and will be willing to ride it out because they are committed to finding the right people to care for the land.”
— Les Macare, Racing Heart Farm, Colfax, Wis.
Urban Homestead for Sale: Minnesota (Metro)
Judith is seeking a steward to purchase a 768 sq ft single-story rambler on approximately ½ acre of mature permaculture-planted edible landscape in Maplewood (Saint Paul), MN. The lot has been chemical-free for 25 years. Edible plants include 12 established ramp plots, asparagus, black raspberries, red currants, sunchokes, chives, garlic chives, nodding onion, prairie onion, wild ginger, woodland strawberry, Virginia waterleaf, arugula, catmint, hollyhock mallow, ostrich fern, hostas, Good King Henry, Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian Mountain Spinach), and chickweed. Fruit trees and shrubs include Honeycrisp and Zestar apple, American plum, sand cherry, serviceberry, elderberry, and red mulberry. Native and medicinal plants include monarda, anise hyssop, mountain mint, stinging nettle, black cohosh, wild geranium, cup plant, Joe-Pye weed, rattlesnake master, blue wood aster, big bluestem, side oats grama, swamp milkweed, broadleaf plantain, and red osier dogwood. Many plants were sourced from local native plant sales, seed libraries, and neighbors, and the landscape was designed with permaculture principles, wildlife habitat, and long-term food production in mind.
The 2 BR / 1 BA home includes a porch, deck, refinished hardwood floors, and paver-lined sidewalks. Major systems are updated: furnace (2019), roof (2022, with warranty to 2027), and insulation with air sealing (2025). Detached 1-car garage and storage shed. The property also features a variety of ornamental plantings. Property taxes $3,434/year; no special assessments. Assessed at $247,800 (Ramsey County 2026). Asking $275,000.
Located a few blocks from 494-acre Phalen Regional Park, with swimable Lake Phalen at its center — a paddleable chain of lakes connecting Round Lake, Keller Lake, Spoon Lake, and Gervais Lake. The Gateway Trail is also nearby. Not in a flood hazard zone.
Exterior video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdYSamIu2Y
Interior video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpKXD7LGAM8
Seeking Farmland to Buy: Wisconsin
Seeking Farmland to Rent: Minnesota
Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Wisconsin
Seeking Farmer: Wisconsin (West Central)
Farmland for Rent: Iowa
Farmland for Rent or Sale: Minnesota (West Central)
Seeking Farmland to Buy: Wisconsin
Farmland for Rent: Wisconsin
Farmland for Rent: Wisconsin
Seeking Organic Farmland to Rent or Buy
Seeking Organic Farmland to Rent: Minnesota
Seeking Farmland to Rent: Minnesota (Northern)
Farmland for Rent: Minnesota
Seeking Farmland to Rent or Buy: Wisconsin
Farmland for Sale: Minnesota
Seeking Farmland to Buy: Minnesota
Seeking Organic Farmland to Rent or Buy: Minnesota (Central)
Seeking Farmer: Minnesota (Southeast)
Seeking Farmer: Minnesota (Northern)
- Diversified vegetable production in USDA Zones 3–4
- High tunnel production and season extension
- Irrigation system development or maintenance
- Safe operation of tractors and farm equipment
- Experience leading or supervising seasonal crews
- Salary: $52,000–$56,000 annually, commensurate with experience
- Full-time, year-round, salaried
- $300/month HSA stipend
- Annual gear stipend plus provided logo'd outerwear — because Minnesota
- Paid professional development opportunities
- 26 days PTO including paid winter break (Christmas through New Year's) — you have earned it
Seeking Organic Farmland to Buy: Missouri
Seeking Farmer: Wisconsin
Seeking Farmland to Rent: Minnesota
Farmland for Sale: Wisconsin (Southwest)
Seeking Farmer: Minnesota (Southeast)
- Willingness and ability to do manual farm labor.
- Experience working in communities of color.
- Gardening or farming experience.
- Ability to get along well with others.
- Appreciation for nature and the outdoors.
- Solid verbal communication skills.
- Willingness to learn and follow instructions.
- Sense of humor preferred.
- Pasture fence repair and maintenance.
- Planting, weeding, watering and harvesting the garden (April-October).
- Spring lambing.
- Frequent moving of cattle and sheep to new pasture.
- Sheep shearing and skirting of fleece.
- Cutting, splitting and stacking firewood.
- Picking aronia berries, foraging for mushrooms, elderberries.
- Making maple syrup.
- Sheep veterinary work like hoof trimming and worming with natural wormers (garlic, homeopathic remedies).
- Pasture mowing.
- Flower gardening.
- Shed clean-up.
- Marketing lamb, wool, and sheep pelts to customers.
- Making hay.
- Building compost bio-reactor.
- Making compost extract and applying it, as a spray, to garden, fruit trees and pasture.
- Barn cleaning/building of compost pile.