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Hopping into the Lunch Line

LSP & Hutchinson Public School Host Legislators & Local Officials for a Farm to School Meal to Show the Program in Action

By Laura Schreiber
May 7, 2025

On April 15, the Land Stewardship Project saw farmers, community members, agency staffers, nonprofit folks, legislators, school district staff, and champions of Farm to School engage in this farm-to-fork initiative in the most hands-on way possible — by breaking bread together over school lunch trays at the Hutchinson High School. This diverse group of people…  Read More →

LSP’s 5 Year Plan Focuses on New Farmers, Racial & Economic Justice, Ag Consolidation, Rural Economies, Soil Health, Climate Resilience

‘Roots of Resilience’ Will Guide the Organization’s Work for 2025-2030

January 16, 2025

LEWISTON, Minn. — The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) today released a strategic plan that describes how, during the next five years, the Minnesota-based organization will work with its members and allies to support the next generation of farmers and drive rural economic revitalization via community-based food systems, as well as help farmers adopt soil health…  Read More →

LSP Land Line: Big Ag Gravy Train, Habitat Loss, Soil Health, Dairy Crisis, Nitrogen, Kernza

By Brian DeVore
September 25, 2020

Sept. 25: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities Very large farms collect one-fifth of USDA’s coronavirus payments (9/23/20) Chuck Abbott reports on Agriculture.com that the government’s COVID-19 payments to agriculture have been a gravy train for mega-operations. According to an analysis done by the Environmental Working Group, the largest 1% of…  Read More →

LSP Statement on 2018 Farm Bill

December 12, 2018

Bill Contains Some LSP Priorities, but Overall Federal Ag Policy Remains in Major Need of Reform MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The membership of the Land Stewardship Project (LSP) launched its “Our Farm Bill” campaign in 2017 to advocate for a Farm Bill that worked for people and the land. This vision called for a change in…  Read More →

LSP, Soil Health & Climate Change

By George Boody
June 1, 2017

In early May, I represented the Land Stewardship Project at “Sequestering Carbon in the Soil: Addressing the Climate Threat,” an international conference held in Paris and organized by Breakthrough Strategies and Solutions. The conference convened 200 scientists, governmental leaders and representatives of nongovernmental organizations from around the world. Attendees included farmers from the Global South…  Read More →

Farmers to AG: Take Action to Counteract Community-Killing Consolidation

During Central MN Meeting, Ellison’s Office Seeks Examples of Ag Antitrust Violations

August 27, 2025

PAYNESVILLE, Minn. — Unprecedented consolidation in agriculture is emptying the landscape of farmers, which is having a trickle-down impact on everything from rural schools and churches to Main Street businesses, said three-dozen farmers and other rural residents who gathered Aug. 24 for an open-air Land Stewardship Project (LSP) town hall meeting on the shores of…  Read More →

Contributing to the Cause

For the First Time in Our History, LSP is Changing its Membership Rates

By Scott Elkins
July 8, 2025

The Land Stewardship Project became a membership organization in 1994, 12 years after we were founded. The people leading the grassroots work knew that to realize the positive transformation of the farm and food system, LSP had to be organizing people, ideas, and money. Becoming a member by making a financial contribution has always been…  Read More →

In the Middle of Somewhere

Carrie Calvo's Long Journey to the Heart of Farming & Local Food

By Brian DeVore
November 17, 2022

Owl Bluff Farm is tucked away in one of those Driftless Area coulees where cellular signals go to die. In fact, when contractors were constructing a building there recently, they sometimes climbed half-way up an abandoned silo on the farm to use their phones. It has a sense of being an isolated, if beautiful, little…  Read More →

Cover Crop ROI & All That Matters

Crunching the Numbers Via Biological Bookkeeping

By Mike Seifert
July 27, 2022

Note: Earlier this summer, Land Stewardship Project soil health organizer Alex Romano reached out to one of our soil health steering committee members, Mike Seifert, who farms near Jordan, Minn., with his wife, Dana, and father, Big Mike, to ask for his thoughts on “return on investment” from cover crops. She wanted to know his…  Read More →