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• A downloadable pdf version is here.

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• Paper copies are available by contacting Brian DeVore at 612-816-9342 or via e-mail.

• Each Land Stewardship Letter is the product of work done by real humans. Generative artificial intelligence, known also as generative AI, plays no part in the writing or editing of this publication.

Table of Contents

Stewardship Roots…3
• Soil and Survival at 40

A New Vision for Ag…4
• What Could a Regenerative Future Look Like?

Myth Buster…6
• Big Ag’s Greenwashing

LSP News…7
• LSP Staff Update
• 2026 Family Farm Breakfast & Lobby Day

Policy & Organizing…8
• 2026 MN Legislative Wrap-up
• Land Access Advocacy
• Fighting an Unprecedented CAFO
• LSP White Paper on Mega-Dairies
• Your Turn to Run for Office?
• Land Stewardship Action

Soil Health…16
• Visioning a New Landscape
• Join the Soil Builders’ Network
• Making Ag Accountable to Water
• LSP’s “Rethinking Nitrogen” Campaign

Farm Beginnings…20
• Next Class Accepting Applications
• Farm Beginnings Profiles:

– Crowded Table Farm
– 4 Beans Farm
– Riverbed Lamb

• Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse

Cultivating Connections…27
• 5 Examples of Bending the Bird Curve
• Avian Audio

Reviews…31
• A Creek Runs Through This Driftless Land
• Living Roots
• Barn Gothic

Membership Update…34
• Why Planned Giving?
• Membership Questions?
• New Address?
• Volunteer for LSP
• 400 Conversations
• In Memory & in Honor

Poetry…35
• “Black Energy,” by Joe Paddock

Stewardship Calendar…36
• Farm Beginnings
• COPAL Community Farm Event
• Urban Ag Field Day
• Spanish-Language Land Access

Stewardship Shop…36
• LSP t-shirts & more
• 40 Stories Book