With the rising cost of food and continued supply chain issues, our communities are facing ever increasing uncertainty. Many are left asking: Where will our food come from? A more secure and sustainable food system is within our reach. If we increased direct sales of food in Minnesota to 1% of all agricultural sales, we’d have an additional $76.25 million going directly to farmers.

We need you with us to make sure we can make this a reality! Join Land Stewardship Project members and supporters on Thursday, Aug. 11, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., in Madison, Minn.

Come and share your ideas about how we can connect farmers, consumers, and food businesses to coordinate markets and support economic development through local foods. We’ll also talk about how the next Farm Bill can help direct federal resources toward community food security, health, and economic vitality.
 
Register here.

Whoever thought peaches could be grown in Minnesota? Not only can we grow them here, but you will learn how to do it in a commercially viable way organically and they will be the best tasting peaches you have ever picked off your own tree. WEI presents Dan Sheild, our local expert on growing peaches in Minnesota. Learn about his innovative and effective techniques for getting the best peaches around, and how you can too!
 
To register, click here.

Nick and Tesla Prigge of Sugarloaf Creek Farm are hosting an LSP pasture walk for area graziers. They will show their cattle grazing system, share their farm story (including current and future plans), and look forward to conversations on various pasture and herd
management styles. There will be a discussion on including cattle grazing in riparian corridor management. Larry Gates, retired DNR Watershed Coordinator, will be a guest speaker during the riparian management section of the pasture walk.
 
Ralph Lentz began rotationally grazing the land in 1980. Ralph demonstrated it is possible to mix cattle with creeks when you are operating your farm as an ecosystem. After Ralph passed away in the fall of 2017, his grandson Nicholas Prigge and family began operating and maintaining the farm. The beef herd consists of 35 cow-calf Pinzgauer Black Angus animals grazing on 80 acres. 
 
Potluck: bring a side to share. Hamburgers will be provided by hosts featuring Sugarloaf Creek Farm beef. Bring your own utensils (plate, silverware) to help
reduce waste. Open to all graziers; do not need to be a member of LSP.
 
To register for this field day by Aug. 12, click here.
 
 

We are confronting many challenges on our farms and in our rural communities: from extreme weather to land access challenges for beginning farmers, as well as corporate interests influencing so much of our food and farming system. But we have an enormous opportunity to address these challenges through the upcoming 2023 Farm Bill! 

Join us for the Land Stewardship Project’s Farm Bill Platform Launch Aug. 16, from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., at the Legvold Farm in Northfield, Minn.

For details and to register, click here.

• TOPICS: No-till, 60-inch corn interseeded with highly diverse cover crop mix, diversifying crop rotations, converting marginal ground to pasture, cutting applied nitrogen rates, profitability
• DIRECTIONS: From I-90, take exit 258 onto MN-76. Turn North, head towards County Road 12. Take a right and drive about 3 miles.
• LUNCH: Prepared by Steak Shop Catering feat. Bergler’s farm-raised meat with a menu of burgers, baked beans, sweet corn, garden salad, and chips.
• MORE INFORMATION: Check out this flier. 

To register, click here.

• TOPICS: Mob grazing demo, hands-on soil health & grazing tools, cattle handling techniques, financial benefits of grazing, direct marketing & multiple enterprises
• DIRECTIONS: From Highway 44, turn onto County Rd. 249/W Main Street. Drive for 2 miles. Continue onto County Road 3. Drive for 5 ½ miles. Turn right onto Crazy Corners Road. Drive for 2 ½ miles to farm. Park on shoulder of Crazy Corners Road.
• LUNCH: Prepared by Fat Pat’s BBQ featuring Wholesome Family Farms grass-fed meat with a menu of smoked brisket sandwiches, pinto beans, slaw, dinner roll and fruit.
• MORE INFORMATION: Check out this flier. 

To register, click here.

Deep canvassing is a candid, non-judgmental, two-way conversation where canvassers ask voters to share their relevant, emotionally significant experiences and reflect on them aloud. It is one of the most durable and proven forms of persuasion when talking to people who might hold differing beliefs than you and is going to be critical in creating the world we want and need.

Join the Land Stewardship Action Fund to learn about deep canvassing, what it is and why it’s important, and get trained on how to deep canvass so you’re able to powerfully participate in LSAF’s upcoming deep canvasses and put these important skills to use in your community. Register at https://secure.everyaction.com/E1P8BQcq0EizUZLDvtQwUw2.

Join LSP as we launch our first of many Monthly Virtual Policy Organizing Meetings! On the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. we will gather to learn about what is happening at the state, local, and federal level; take collective action together; dive into an issue campaign of your choice; and break out into regional groups to build relationships with other LSPers in your area. For more information or to register, see https://secure.everyaction.com/zF3jOPhFekexfrChxvPhFA2.

What could be better in August than peaches and pizza? We’ve put together an amazing tour and opportunity for our attendees to visit a stone fruit operation at Stone Creek Farm followed by a wood-fired pizza dinner at WEI at their apple orchard.

To register, click here.

 

Utilizing a cutting-edge composting system to build soil health and fertility naturally will be the focus of a Land Stewardship Project (LSP) field day Friday, Aug. 26, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Dale and Carmene Pangrac-Kim and Andy Olson dairy farm near Lewiston (19300 Trestle Drive). This field day will offer information for both conventional and organic farmers, and a noon lunch will be available (free-will donations accepted). Registration starts at 9:30 am. 
 
For more information and to RSVP by Tuesday, Aug. 23, register online at https://bit.ly/3OZESHz or contact LSP’s Shona Snater at ssnater@landstewardshipproject.org.

Join LSP for a day focused on no-till and financials, cover crops, planting green, soybean row width, and triticale as cattle feed.

Everett Rolfing has been experimenting with no-till and cover crops for the last decade, and now does it on 100% of his acres. He broadcasts rye seed in the fall and plants green into it in the spring.

Robb Miller farms with his brother and they raise corn, soybeans, and alfalfa, as well as run a dairy. Robb prioritizes keeping something green and growing throughout the year by planting triticale as a cover crop and planting green in the spring.

For details and to register, click here.

Deep canvassing is a candid, non-judgmental, two-way conversation where canvassers ask voters to share their relevant, emotionally significant experiences and reflect on them aloud. It is one of the most durable and proven forms of persuasion when talking to people who might hold differing beliefs than you and is going to be critical in creating the world we want and need.

Join the Land Stewardship Action Fund to learn about deep canvassing, what it is and why it’s important, and get trained on how to deep canvass so you’re able to powerfully participate in LSAF’s upcoming deep canvasses and put these important skills to use in your community. Register at https://secure.everyaction.com/3B9w7CVEB0CGFstf-zZ3jw2.

Deep canvassing is a candid, non-judgmental, two-way conversation wherecanvassers ask voters to share their relevant, emotionally significantexperiences and reflect on them aloud. It is one of the most durable and provenforms of persuasion when talking to people who might hold differing beliefs thanyou and is going to be critical in creating the world we want and need.

Join the Land Stewardship Action Fund to learn about deep canvassing, what itis and why it’s important, and get trained on how to deep canvass so you’re ableto powerfully participate in LSAF’s upcoming deep canvasses and put theseimportant skills to use in your community. Register at https://secure.everyaction.com/tITHm_ltCkSL3_2sXgbjvQ2.

Seeds Farm in Northfield, Minn., will be hosting a Land Stewardship Project 40th Anniversary Square Dance. Supper will be served by the Local Plate. For details, e-mail LSP’s Elizabeth Makarewicz at EMakarewicz@landstewardshipproject.org.

Do you want to know what those who are running to represent you and all Minnesotans will do to create a sustainable and just farm and food system? Join us on Saturday, September 24, from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m., on an LSP member’s farm in Dodge County, Minn., for a town hall with statewide candidates. We have invited the major party candidates running for Minnesota Attorney General and Governor.

For details and to register, click here.

Join Steve and Joe Lawler at their 22-acre test plot near Eyota, Minn., to try out different timings for rye after silage harvest. They also have interseeded corn and soybeans and plan to graze on their covers. The Lawlers are transitioning to organic, but this test field will be conventionally managed. To register, click here.

Deep canvassing is a candid, non-judgmental, two-way conversation wherecanvassers ask voters to share their relevant, emotionally significantexperiences and reflect on them aloud. It is one of the most durable and provenforms of persuasion when talking to people who might hold differing beliefs thanyou and is going to be critical in creating the world we want and need.

Join the Land Stewardship Action Fund to learn about deep canvassing, what itis and why it’s important, and get trained on how to deep canvass so you’re ableto powerfully participate in LSAF’s upcoming deep canvasses and put theseimportant skills to use in your community. Register at https://secure.everyaction.com/x0rFb5n1MUeX-6sPDW-SuA2.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, will give a presentation. More details to follow. For more information, contact LSP’s Barbara Sogn-Frank, bsognfrank@landstewardshipproject.org, 507-479-9119. Details on other LSP 40th Anniversary events are here.