SFA is proud to present a speaker series at the 59th Annual Central Minnesota Farm Show, hosted by the St. Cloud Chamber of Commerce. It is free to attend and enjoy hundreds of exhibitors, special product offers, entertainment, daily coffee and donuts at 9 AM, and our slate of Minnesota speakers. Speaker lineup: https://stcloudareachamber.com/central-mn-farm-show-speaker-lineup Event info: https://stcloudareachamber.com/programs/networking-special-events/farm-show Session…

Jolene Carlson of Rosehill Acres Farm will be presenting tried and true methods for living well through the winter with a holistic approach to support your body against common winter-time ailments. This webinar is part of SFA’s Homesteading Series. Registration: Free to attend. Advance registration required to receive the Zoom link. More info: Mary Fischer,…

If you’ve been following along with SFA’s Homesteading Series, you’ve learned how to raise your own meat chickens from start to market weight. Join us on Tuesday, September 16th from 9AM-2PM to learn how to properly finish this project by processing your own chickens at home. At this workshop, we will actually be processing 35-40…

Let’s cook with our abundant harvest and learn to go WEEKS without the Grocery Store!Featuring the FROM SCRATCH FARMSTEAD YouTube Channel Please note that this event has moved to August 27! “The cost to feed a family has gone up exponentially over the last several years. People everywhere are trying to really stretch a dollar…

You’ve fallen in love with homesteading! But you never anticipated that coyote stealing your lambs, or that fox that snatched your broilers for his own chicken dinner…   For thousands of years, dogs have been strategically bred, trained and used to protect livestock on the farm and serve as a threat to predators.  In this webinar of…

You’ve probably heard that chickens are the gateway into Homesteading life. There’s a reason! Raising your own chicken meat and eggs requires fairly minimal inputs and infrastructure to begin on your own.  With egg and meat prices on the rise, this summer sounds like a great time to begin raising your own! Jonathan Kilpatrick has been raising…

Join Leah Matzke for a full milking on the farm and an inside look at keeping a family cow, from daily care to safely processing fresh dairy at home. We’ll hear about managing farm-direct sales and how her on-site farm store connects customers with pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and even cheese cultures. This event is…

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…