Deep Roots Festival

 

 

Saturday, September 13, 2025
3:00 - 7:00 p.m.

North Circle Seeds
26253 485th Street Vergas, MN 56587

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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.
Tickets coming soon.

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.

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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:Renewing the Countrysidehttps://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 through the North Central Region SARE program under project number H011171408. USDA is an equal opportunity employer and service provider. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy. 

 

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.

Silver Dust Farm
Meet Ken and Dori Larson at their organic, sixty-cow dairy farm in Ottertail. Silver Dust Farm is a local producer for Organic Valley Cooperative.
Grassroots
Enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour of the incredibly popular local greenhouse that specializes in apple trees and an eclectic mix of offerings.
Deep Winter Greenhouse
Join our host, John Salman at Slow Cycle Farm for an in-depth tour of the innovative Deep Winter Greenhouse design.

Workshops, Noon - 4p.m.

Learn about their craft directly from local makers and growers.

12:30-1:15 p.m.
    • Regenerative Tour of Slow Cycle Farm
    • Shitake Mushroom Cultivation
    • Fiber Arts Demonstration
1:30-2:15 p.m.
    • Garlic Planting Workshop
    • Mead Making 101
    • Strictly Mushrooms
2:30-3:15
    • 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

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Deep Roots Festival