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Land Line: Small Grains, Manure, Soil Carbon, Rural Empowerment, Regenerative Generation

Feb. 3: An LSP Round-up of News Covering Land, People & Communities

By Brian DeVore
February 3, 2025

Growing Small Grains Market in Albert Lea Attracting Attention from Farmers (1/28/25) KAAL-TV reports on a Land Stewardship Project workshop where over 150 people gathered to talk about ways of bringing small grains back to Minnesota. Highlights: After being mostly replaced by corn and soybeans during the past several decades, small grains such as oats…  Read More →

Don Wyse’s Land Grant Legacy

It's Imperative Forever Green Stays True to its Foundations: Farmer-Centered, Accountable to the Public, Rooted in the Land

By Brian DeVore
July 5, 2024

Back in 1998, I was working on an article for the Land Stewardship Letter about how the lack of biodiversity in agriculture was threatening the agronomic, ecological, and economic future of Midwestern farming communities. One of the people I interviewed was Don Wyse, a respected University of Minnesota plant scientist who had recently helped coordinate…  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 →

Farm Beginnings Profile: Sara Morrison

No More Horsing Around

By Brian DeVore
December 15, 2015

In 2005, Sara Morrison was driving home to Minnesota after spending a few long days at a Saint Louis horse show. Traveling, often with a horse trailer in tow, was nothing new to her. Since getting a degree in equine science eight years before, Morrison had spent much of her life on the road, preparing…  Read More →

An Investment in Sustainable Ag is an Investment in a Positive Future for Rural Minnesota

By Paul Sobocinski
March 29, 2013

If ever there was a shining example of a smart public investment in our food and farming future, Minnesota’s Sustainable Agriculture Demonstration Grant Program is it. This program has been an important driver of sustainable (and conventional) farming innovations in the state for almost a quarter-century. Farmers who qualify for these competitive grants are able…  Read More →

Farm Beginnings Profile: Kristianna Gehant & Nick Siddens

A Little Horse Sense

By Brian DeVore
January 10, 2012

When a new food and farming model is introduced to a region, it can be slow to catch on—if at all. On the other hand, sometimes a new concept takes off like a galloping horse, challenging its practitioners to hang on for the ride. One Saturday last October, Kristianna Gehant and Nick Siddens were on…  Read More →

Seeking Internship: Minnesota

Dofa is seeking an internship in Minnesota.  Dofa has been farming for the last two seasons, one with Big River Farm, Minnesota in 2024 and then 2025 Dofa farmed with Sudan Farmers at Sharing Our Roots in Northfield, Minnesota.  Ideally Dofa is looking for a situation where there is a teaching/ learning exchange going both…  Read More →

No. 2, 2025, Land Stewardship Letter

• An online version of the Land Stewardship Letter is here. • A downloadable pdf version is here. • Downloadable pdf back issues of the Land Stewardship Letter are here. • Interactive online back issues of the Land Stewardship Letter are here. • Paper copies are available by contacting Brian DeVore at 612-816-9342 or via e-mail. Table of Contents Stewardship…  Read More →

Seeking Internship or Employment: Minnesota (Southern)

Abdi is seeking an internship or employment Saturdays and Sundays in the Owatonna, MN area.  Abdi is interested in vegetable production and dairy.  In addition to learning the skills for each Abdi has interest in developing skills and understanding of cover crops, soils, tools and machinery, business planning and on farm processing of milk/ cheese.

Seeking Farmer: Minnesota (Metro)

Victoria is seeking a farmer to join her operation or to work for her in Shakopee, MN, Scott County.  The city allows only vegetation-based agricultural land use on her rural residential property (hobby scale for chickens and bees and no other livestock). Victoria is looking for someone who is interested in being the boots on…  Read More →