Deep Roots Festival
Saturday, September 13, 2025
2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
North Circle Seeds
26253 485th Street Vergas, MN 56587
More info: lakeagassiz@sfa-mn.org
Deep Roots Festival is a community celebration that increases our connection to local foods and the farmers and growers who make them in the Lake Agassiz Region.
$20 SFA Member Adult (Members must log in to see member pricing. Learn more about joining SFA here.)
$25 Nonmember
Kids 12 and under - Free
Online sales have closed. Please purchase your ticket at the gate.
The first 175 ticketholders are guaranteed a meal with their ticket. Tickets sold after the first 175 will be half price but will not include the meal.
There will be other food options available onsite for purchase.
Deep Roots Festival is so excited to feature two-time James Beard award-winning author and chef, Amy Thielen, as our keynote speaker!
Along with her keynote presentation, Amy will be sharing a cooking demo and will be available to sign copies of her books including:
- Give a Girl a Knife
- The New Midwestern Table
- and her latest book, Company.
Learn more about Amy HERE.
Entertainment
Classes
In addition to our keynote presentation by Amy Thielen, there will be six different local foods sessions you can attend:
- Seed saving
- Apple orcharding
- Sauerkraut making
- Lamb processing
- No-Till Gardening
- Farm tour
See the Entire Schedule HERE.
Music
Vendors
We are excited to welcome our vendors:
- Lida Farm
- MANNA Co-Op
- North Circle Seeds
- Rough and Tumble Farmhouse
- Monarch Joint Venture
- Buck's Mill Brewing
- Chickadee Coffee Roasters
- True Blue Flower Co.
- and other favorites
See below for vendor registration info.
Good Eats at Deep Roots
Admission to this year’s event includes a locally sourced meal catered by Spanky’s Stone Hearth.
Be a Vendor or Exhibitor!
Download vendor information and the application HERE.
Volunteer!
You'll get FREE admission to the event as well as a t-shirt and a chance to win prizes from our local vendors.
More info and sign-up HERE.
Sponsor Deep Roots!
Support the mission and outreach of this event. Be included in all advance promotion and on festival day.
Monetary and In-kind sponsorships are invited, and included complementary tickets, booth space and logo presence.
More information and sponsor application is HERE.
Online Sponsorship Payment Portal HERE.
We welcome certified service animals but all other pets must stay at home. Thank you.
Our 2025 Sponsors
Our partner organization on this project is:
https://www.renewingthecountryside.org
This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under agreement number 2023-38640-39573 throug
A Look Back at the 2023 Deep Roots Festival
Farm Tours, 10 a.m. - Noon:
Bus tour to 3 farms:
Learn directly from the farmers about how they sustainably grow food.
Workshops, Noon - 4p.m.
Learn about their craft directly from local makers and growers.
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- Regenerative Tour of Slow Cycle Farm
- Shitake Mushroom Cultivation
- Fiber Arts Demonstration
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- Garlic Planting Workshop
- Mead Making 101
- Strictly Mushrooms
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- Hydroponics for Everyone
- Fermentation for Beginners
- Basics of Herbal Balms
Entertainment, Noon - 4p.m.
An art exhibit, food, music, marketplace & kids activities.
More info: lakeagassiz@sfa-mn.org.
See a video of the 2022 Deep Roots Festival HERE
