Interested in Hemp, Healthy foods and Healthy soils? Following Soil Health School on September 11, we will have a special free event on Tom Cotter's farm covering hemp, healthy foods, and healthy soil! Topics include: Hemp Health Nurse Overview Growing Natural (Farmers Market/CSA) Environment +Soil+Water LSP Connect
Calling all farmers! Join us for an open house at Big River Farms to learn more about our education and land-based farmer training program. We will have applications available at the sessions for the 2022 season. Interpretation will be provided if requested within two weeks of the session dates. Please share widely with anyone who might be […]
This field day will focus on: -Adaptive Grazing -Fence and Water Infrastructure -Bale Grazing Registration required. Free and open to all! Address: Voss Farms, 27725 Business 23 E Paynesville, MN 56362
Join Gabe Brown and Shane New at 7 p.m. Central time on Thursday, Sept. 23 as they discuss the relationship between water, carbon and biology, in Understanding Ag's "Building Resiliency" free webinar series. Register at:Â https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N4t8_Ql9RCuv0DpEiBu1VA
Time & Location Sep 28, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT Holm Girl’s Dairy, E10025 690th Ave, Elk Mound, WI 54739, USA About the Event Join us for a pasture walk with organic farmer and conservationist Mariann Holm. She will be covering pasture renewal, grazing as conservation, and grazing livestock on pasture with trees. NRCS […]
Address:  Jeff Koehn Farm         25737 County 8         Long Prairie, MN 56347 Free Meal Included Agenda: ·       9:00 Introductions, purpose of meeting by Todd SWCD – Cover Crop grant ·       9:05 Grant Brietkreutz, General Soil Health, Integrating Livestock and Chemical precautions ·       10:15- Q […]
Farmers and ranchers are businesspeople, and the questions that often present the most significant barrier to the adoption of soil health management systems pertain to the business case. The Soil Health Institute interviewed 100 farmers in 9 states who have adopted soil health systems and used partial budget analysis to evaluate their economics and answer […]
We meet at the Pizza Ranch in Redwood Falls, MN the first Tuesday of every month from 10AM-12PM.
Thursday, October 14  |  2-6 PM  |  Howard Lake Get hands on with silvopasture and oak savanna restoration at Living Song Farm! This event is tailored for volunteers to help a farmer transition some acres to a silvopasture oak savanna system. Volunteers will get experience planting oaks, spreading prairie/oak savanna seed, pulling buckthorn, and learning about […]
Friday, October 22  |  9 AM–2 PM  |  Zimmerman This free field day will be held at the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge. Staff will give an overview of the Refuge and oak savanna management, followed by a visit to University of Minnesota research plots and review of the Refuge's grazing management in recent years. Lunch […]
