Stephanie is seeking a farmer to rent 39 acres (10 pasture, 8 forest and 21 other) near Hutchinson, MN. There is no housing or outbuildings on site, however accommodations could be made during the warm season next door at New Story Farm. Some fencing is already there but Stephanie will provide the fence if you… Read More →
John and Sonya are seeking a farmer to rent part of their home farm including 10 acres of hay (cool season grasses) and 18 acres of a former CRP field (forbes, warm season grasses, willow etc) on a former dairy farm in Spring Valley, Wisconsin (45 miles east of St Paul, MN). No chemical herbicides… Read More →
Pamela is seeking to buy 10 acres of farmland with road and water access. Read More →
Martin is seeking to buy 20 acres (15 pasture, plus tillable and forest) of farmland. Housing is necessary. Available 8/1/27. Read More →
Scott is seeking a farmer to rent or buy a 0.56 acre urban homestead in the city limits of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, Otter Tail County. There are sixty-six 25’x30” raised beds built with 18” wood chip paths between beds. The front yard is a terraced south-facing slope sized about 20’x100’ with raised beds and mounds… Read More →
On a blustery late summer day, Jan Libbey and Tim Landgraf hike through a waist-high prairie to the top of a dramatic knob on their farm in north-central Iowa. As they stand amongst big bluestem, Indian grass and switchgrass, corn and soybean fields flow in every direction, the monocultural landscape broken up only by a… Read More →
Ryan is seeking 60 acres of ideally certified organic pasture to rent in Minnesota. Ryan is a young farmer trained in Holistic Land Management through the Savory Institute, and has a complete business plan built around Holistic Planned Grazing, using cattle as the primary tool to restore soil health and rebuild pasture over time. Currently… Read More →
A Minnesota Dairy Farm Transitions from One Family to the Next Atop the river-bluffs near the southeastern Minnesota community of La Crescent, the 90-plus Ayrshires of Enchanted Meadows Organic Farm munch on fescue, clovers, plantain and other greenery on a recent summer day. Then, on schedule, they’re led from pasture to barn. Recently, after 10… Read More →
It’s been said that politics is the art of the compromise. But during the 2026 session of the Minnesota Legislature, that approach to policymaking was undermined by disagreements about the role one particular herbicide should play in the state’s agricultural production system. As the session of the Minnesota Legislature entered its final month, it was… Read More →
The Midwest has Lost 57.6 Billion Metric Tons of Soil Due to Agricultural Practices (3/16/22) The Midwest has lost approximately 57.6 billion metric tons of topsoil since farmers began tilling the soil, 160 years ago. And this is despite conservation practices put in place in the wake of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, according to Phys.org. Much… Read More →
