Deep Roots Festival

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

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.

A look back at the 2024 Festival Schedule

Local Foods Tours | 12:00- 2:45 | Open to ticket holders only.

Join us for some great local foods tours before the Festival even starts! We are happy to be showcasing local food businesses and farms on this year's line-up.

We ask that you only attend these events if you have purchased or intend to purchase your ticket to the festival. Tour times are set, so please do not show up outside of specific start times,

Chickadee Coffee Roasters 12:00 p.m. 16191 360th Ave, Frazee
Danger Moon Mangalitsa Pork
Bucks Mill Brewing 12:00 p.m. 824 Washington Ave, Detroit Lakes
True Blue Flower Co. 1:00 p.m. 35191 Co Hwy 4, Frazee
Doughing Crazy 2:00p.m. 31321 170th St. Detroit Lakes
Orchard Tour of Maple Hills 2:00 p.m. 29355 130th St, Frazee, MN, 56544
Renewing the Countryside, Come & Get It

Tours are "Choose Your Own Adventure" this year. There is no bus, you must provide your own transportation. Please arrive at the tour locations on time as tours begin and end promptly at their designated times.

Meet the New MANNA 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Be sure to stop by event sponsor, MANNA Co-Op's new location for a tour! The co-op is expanding in a big way to the old Ace Hardware building on the corner of Washington and Veteran's.

This expansion will include a commercially licensed kitchen available for local producers to step up their production game. Stop on by and chat with Ryan Pesch, Co-Op treasurer to check it out.

At the Orchard from 3:00-7:00pm:

Vendors and Food, Including:

MANNA Co-Op

Clay County Public Health

Bucks Mill Brewing

MANNA Co-Op

Lida Farm

More coming soon!

Classes at Deep Roots | Included with Admission

There is a great line-up of hands-on skills classes during this year's festival.

Under the Big Tent

3:30-4:15 pm Fresh Herbs in the Kitchen with Bonnie Juma
4:30-5:15 p.m. Growing Shiitake Mushrooms with Ron Roller
5:30-6:15 p.m. Growing Shiitake Mushrooms with Ron Roller

Orchard Store

3:30-4:15 pm Local Foods Round Table with Scott Roser
4:30-5:15 p.m. Homemade Dairy with Kelsey Wulf
5:30-6:15 p.m. Growing Microgreens with Rick Abrahamson

Meet at the MANNA Booth

3:30-4:15 pm Garlic Planting Workshop with Ryan Pesh
4:30-5:15 p.m. Orcharding 101 with Thaddeus McCamant
5:30-6:15 p.m. Composting for Beginners with Cedar Walters

Art & Entertainment

Face She Paints Face Painting
Earth in Common with local artist Katy Olson
Natural Dialogues with local photographer Jon Solinger
Live music by Anthony Miltich
Free Kid's Activities

We welcome certified service animals but all other pets must stay at home. Thank you.

Our 2024 Sponsors

Our partner organization on this project is:https://www.renewingthecountryside.org

Beet Sponsor

https://wcif.org

This event is part of the Renewing the Countryside's Come & Get It project. Funding for Come and Get It was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the organizers and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA.

Inherent Risks of Agritourism Inherent Risks of Livestock Activity

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.