Seeking Farmland to Buy: Minnesota
Harvey is seeking to buy 30 acres (pasture, tillable and forest) with a house in MN.
Harvey is seeking to buy 30 acres (pasture, tillable and forest) with a house in MN.
Emily is seeking 20 acres (pasture and tillable) to buy in Minnesota. She is looking for land and a house south of the Metro between Lonsdale and Red Wing MN to start a regenerative U-pick orchard, pumpkin patch and Christmas tree farm. Emily is ready 8/13/25.
Jesse is seeking 5 acres (pasture, tillable, forest) to buy in Minnesota. Jesse is looking for homestead southwest of the metro that is within 35 minutes of Woodbury, MN. 5 acres is preferred but can do with less if the township allows animals like goats and sheep. Would be ready by 9/1/25.
Max is seeking to buy 5 acres of pasture and tillable land in Wisconsin near the Fox Valley area. Max is interested in an area for pasture and market garden- no housing necessary. Max is looking for this opportunity 7/9/25.
Do you own farmland and want to make sure it is taken care of using good stewardship practices? Two “Managing for Stewardship” workshops are being presented in Minnesota this winter by the Land Stewardship Project (LSP) and the Upper Mississippi Region of the League of Women Voters. These workshops are for farmland owners, retired farm… Read More →
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 →
Farmers Battle Saturated Soils with More Roots in the Ground To Tom Cotter, the various natural resources his farming operation relies on don’t operate in a vacuum. Rather, they have a relational quality — the role one resource plays in keeping his business viable depends on how it interacts with other resources. For example, rain… Read More →
After receiving my degree from St. Olaf College last spring, I have returned to the family farm outside Caledonia, Minn. I come home with a deeper understanding that soil rich in organic matter and biota can function more efficiently than biologically deprived soils. Having grown up on this small southeastern Minnesota beef and crop farm,… Read More →
It’s been said that soil without biology is just geology—an accumulation of lifeless minerals unable to spawn healthy plant growth. And as intense monocropping production practices increasingly remove more life from the ground than they return, it sends that soil closer to fossilization via what conservationist Barry Fisher calls, “the spiral of degradation”: eroded, compacted… Read More →
There are lots of reminders out there that we have a long ways to go before building soil health becomes a mainstay of our food and farming system. Some reminders are subtle, while others are about as blunt as a baseball bat to the head. A reminder of the latter variety is featured in the… Read More →