Homesteading Series – Tour of Alternative Roots Farm

Let’s experience homesteading in action!

A tour of Alternative Roots Farm will feature their perennial fruit plantings, homestead garden and a passive solar greenhouse. We’ll touch on succession planting, preserving the harvest, direct-to-consumer sales, managing an on-farm store & the role of livestock on the farm. Alternative Roots Farm is a Certified Organic farm producing apples and other perennial fruits, winter greens, cottage food items, pasture pigs and more, since 2011.

Brooke Knisley has owned Alternative Roots Farm, with her husband John, for 14 years. She is passionate about good, clean food, preserving the harvest and stocking the larder, herbalism, camping, canoeing and being outside.

This event is part of SFA’s 2025 Homesteading Series. Check out the Minnesota River Chapter’s webpage for more upcoming homesteading events.

Important notes for participants:

• Please park on the gravel road.
• Wear appropriate footwear for a farm setting — it has rained recently.
• There will be water bottles available.
• No port-a-potty is available. Please come prepared!

Registration: Free. Registration requested, walkups welcome.

Address: Alternative Roots Farm, 11197 130th Street Madelia, MN 56062

Info: Mary Fischer, mary@sfa-mn.org

SFA staff and volunteers occasionally take photos during our workshops, cafe chats and field days for promotional purposes and to use as documentation of events to share with our funders.  If you do not wish to be photographed, please let our event host know — we’ll make every effort to make sure you are not photographed.

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