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The Deep Roots Festival is an interactive day of hands-on education, local food, art, and music. Join the festivities in Richville, MN from 10am-12pm for the farm tour and then stick around from 12pm-4pm to shop local food, enjoy local art, listen to great music, and learn about sustainable farming from the Deep Roots Workshops. The workshops will cover everything from mushroom cultivation, to fiber arts, to fermentation. The goal of the event is to connect community members

After months of planning the Clover Valley Farm Fest was held on August 27th. Pat Berger and Justin Osadjin, the organizers of the event, did a wonderful job planning and promoting all the farmers along the Clover Valley Farm Trail. It was such a success three local news stations and a local radio station came to cover it. See the story from Northern News Now below and visit the Clover Valley Farm Trail this fall!

For a few years now, Brooke Knisley and Mary Fischer have been hearing their neighbors call for more access to local foods and opportunities to learn self-sufficiency skills. Being farmers themselves, they decided to organize an on-farm event celebrating all of the wonderful knowledge and food in their community. Through Renewing the Countryside’s Come & Get It! grant, and support from Sustainable Farming Association and the MN River Chapter, they created Sowing Seeds: Celebr

A John Wiederhoeft of Stone Hearth Farm & Garden Farmers who grow food in smaller communities in rural Minnesota frequently truck their products 50-100 miles to larger urban areas to access customers. These long drives are expensive in fuel costs and time but are often the only option for farmers to reach larger markets and sell products at viable prices. Farmers consistently report that they are looking for markets closer to home, but in small rural communities –where many f

Renewing the Countryside (RT John Knisley of Alternative Roots Farm in Madelia MN C) is a non-profit organization with a mission to strengthen rural areas by championing and supporting rural communities, farmers, and others who are renewing the countryside through sustainable and innovative initiatives, businesses, and projects. In 2015 RTC decided to live out its mission by bolstering support for farmers interested in potentially diversifying into agritourism through on-farm