Seeking Farmland to Rent: Minnesota (Central)
Rachel is seeking to rent 2+ acres with a house and animal shelters, rural, but as close to the Twin Cities as possible. Rachel has flexible timing but would be ready as early as January 2025.
Rachel is seeking to rent 2+ acres with a house and animal shelters, rural, but as close to the Twin Cities as possible. Rachel has flexible timing but would be ready as early as January 2025.
Margaret and Andrew are seeking a farmer to rent three certified organic tillable acres in Shafer, MN available October 31, 2024. Infrastructure includes: two pole barns, 2 high tunnels, 2 caterpillar tunnels, 1 passive solar greenhouse, 1 conventional greenhouse heated by forced air furnace. One barn has a concrete floor that has plumbing designed for… Read More →
Thomas, an amateur astronomy, is seeking a small plot of land to build a very small observatory (looks like a shed, < 250 sq. ft.) to house a telescope and take advantage of dark skies. He is open to ANY arrangement, rent, buy etc. and any amount of land that fits his budget. Farming could… Read More →
Mike is seeking a farmer to rent 5 acres in Steele County, MN. There is a house and possibly a granary.
John is seeking ten acres to rent in MN. He is looking for five acres of tillable and three acres of pasture- a house is not necessary, but land must be buildable. Run-down buildings are okay.
Feb. 28: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms (2/24/21) National Public Radio reports on a new study showing the most fertile topsoil is entirely gone from a third of all the land devoted to growing crops across the upper Midwest. Highlights: The… Read More →
Note: In April 2023, the Land Stewardship Project joined 10 other groups in filing a petition calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to use its emergency authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act to address the fact that nitrate contamination is causing “an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health” in the karst region of… Read More →
The Land Stewardship Project’s State Policy Steering Committee convened last week to start setting LSP’s state policy priorities for the 2019 Minnesota Legislative Session, which begins Jan. 8. The committee, made up of LSP members who are farmers and leaders in their communities, directs what LSP supports and champions on the state level. Below are… Read More →
Local Control & Environmental Review Stay Strong Despite Attacks; Some Gains for Sustainable Ag Research & Beginning Farmer Land Access The 2017 session of the Minnesota Legislature was highlighted by a tough fight over corporate agriculture’s push to make it easier for factory farms to force their way into communities. Corporate ag and its supporters… Read More →
With a single phrase, we can put conservation to work on rented land. And that would have a major impact from a landscape point of view: more than half the crops in Minnesota and Iowa alone are produced on rented acres, and every one of them could be saving soil, water, habitat and money with… Read More →