Pearce is seeking two acres (1 tillable and one pasture) to buy in Eastern Minnesota. Pearce and Eleanor Jensen currently run StrongHeart Farms at Big River Farms in Marine on St. Croix, MN. StrongHeart is an organic mixed vegetable operation in their 5th growing season. They are currently seeking to purchase a property where they… Read More →
Kevin and partner, semi-retired, are seeking 5 acres of farmland (pasture and forest) to rent near Wadena, Perham, Ottertail Minnesota. They are interested in a long term rental with housing. Available 3/1/26.
Nearly seven years ago, northeastern Iowa farmer and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) district conversationist, Todd Duncan, along with a group of local producers, started looking for tangible solutions to the erosion problems they were seeing on their farms. These farmers had already been implementing NRCS’s best management practices when it came to conversation, but… Read More →
On Friday, June 12, the nationwide populist movement to stop fast-track authority for secretive, pro-corporate trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) scored a major victory: a necessary component of fast-track was overwhelmingly defeated in the U.S. House of Representatives. Although derailing fast-track is a victory, it is not the final nail in the coffin… Read More →
From the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction department: In 2007, Monsanto talked the USDA’s Risk Management Agency into giving farmers a discount on crop insurance premiums if they planted the company’s triple-stacked GMO corn. Reportedly, some reviewers of the proposal raised concerns that the premium subsidy would unfairly benefit a single private company. But in the end, the USDA… Read More →
At a time when there’s a lot of bad news when it comes to the state of our land, spending a bit of time in the company of optimists can be good for the soul. And there’s no doubt Kristin Ohlson and Courtney White have a positive message to relay in their new books about… Read More →
My story of connection to the land is one of re-connecting. I’m in process. I grew up in Lincoln, Neb., with essentially no connection to place. My parents had lived together in Goshen, Ind.; Iowa City, Iowa; and Berkeley, Cal., before I came along, and they had both spent their growing up years in various… Read More →
On a recent August evening in south-central North Dakota, soil scientist Kristine Nichols laid out what I like to call the “purebred vs. the plugger” approach to farming. “With healthy soil, you may not out-yield your neighbor in the best years, but you will out perform them in the not-so-good years,” said Nichols, a soil… Read More →
Sarah is seeking farmland (pasture and tillable) to buy in Minnesota. Livestock buildings would be appreciated if possible- for hogs/goats/poultry. She is interested in a house.
Kurt is seeking to buy 20 acres of farmland in extreme SW Wisconsin or Eastern Iowa. Kurt plans to start a small regenerative ag operation, grass based. Live water and rolling topography with both open pasture land and some wooded would be preferred. Kurt can build fences as needed. A house and old outbuildings would… Read More →
