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Ear to the Ground 339: Urban Ag’s Moment
The USDA’s recent creation of urban ag service centers is a recognition that growing food in the city is more than a quirky news story. More Information • Kajsa Beatty Contact • USDA Office of Urban Ag & Innovative Production • USDA Urban Service Centers • USDA Resources for Urban Farmers • LSP’s Farm Beginnings Course You can… Read More →
Seeking Farmer: Minnesota
Monique is seeking a farmer to work for her. She has 35 tillable acres in Taylors Falls, MN, Chisago County she would like to convert to organic that is currently being used for corn/beans. She wants to move away from conventional farming and have more sustainable/organic crops. There are 4 separate fields if someone is… Read More →
Seeking Farm Work Experience: Minnesota
Erin is a lawyer with a very flexible, fully remote job. She is extremely passionate about sustainable, ethical, and life-giving food systems and has previously worked at a goat dairy and did a volunteer workshare at the Women’s Environmental Institute. She wants to intern or apprentice with a farm that understands she has a full-time… Read More →
Ear to the Ground No. 328: Urban Ag Oasis
Farm Beginnings grad Queen Frye just wants to raise food — even if she doesn’t resemble a famous Scottish farmer. More Information • R. Roots Garden • LSP’s Farm Beginnings Course You can find LSP Ear to the Ground podcast episodes on Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, and other podcast platforms.
LSP Simpls Fundraiser
For the fourth year in a row, the Land Stewardship Project will be doing a fundraiser with our friends at Simpls, a Twin Cities based company that makes delicious food from scratch using local, organic, and regenerative ingredients. It’s a very easy online fundraiser! Simpls is providing us with an e-mail template to send to your… Read More →
MN Farm, Food & Climate Funding
During the recently adjourned session of the Minnesota Legislature, the Land Stewardship Project and its allies won record funding for public programs that support farmers, conservation, and community food systems, among other things. We are now pivoting to the implementation stage to ensure these dollars and programs serve our members, as well as other small-…
Talking Through Tough Choices
Transforming a Wish List into a Viable Farming Operation
There’s a bit of a disagreement over how many enterprises were originally on a certain wish list when Hannah Frank and Justin Thomas were considering launching a farm. “Didn’t we have, like, 40 different enterprises on our goal sheet?” Thomas asks Frank on an overcast day in July while the couple stands next to a… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 309: Stewards of the Land
Two Puerto Rican filmmakers talk about Stewards of the Land/Serán las dueñas de la tierra, which documents the stories of three beginning farmers as they build relationships and find creative ways to access land to grow food for their communities. June 4 Screening & More Information • Click here to RSVP to the Minneapolis, Minn., film screening/discussion on Sunday,… Read More →