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New farmers talk about how Farm Beginnings helps them balance demand for their products with keeping their businesses, and lives, sustainable.
New farmers talk about how Farm Beginnings helps them balance demand for their products with keeping their businesses, and lives, sustainable.
A brother-sister team uses Farm Beginnings and Journeyperson to help transition from being landowners to active farmers.
An innovative grass-based system makes a farm friendly to livestock, wildlife and the bottom line.
LSP Farm Beginnings participants talk about “unfair advantages” as they launch an enterprise focusing on mushrooms and CSA vegetables.
Farmer Tony Schultz talks about how Community Supported Agriculture can revitalize our food system and rural communities.
BFRDP: A discussion about a precedent-setting federal program for beginning farmers and ranchers.
An LSP workshop focuses on how rural townships in Minnesota can use interim ordinances and comprehensive planning to protect the community from unwanted developments.
Terrie and Joe Adams work to make Marshwatch Farms into a place where people can learn that profitable food production and environmental health go together, even in a region threatened by sprawling development.
Dave and Deb Welsch pass their crop operation on to beginning farmers who are not family members.
Dawit is working with a group and seeking a meat processing plant to rent or buy in or near Minneapolis/ St. Paul. They would be open to considering locations within 45 minutes to 1 hour outside the metro area.