Current & Upcoming

Living Well through the Winter Webinar

Oct 29, 2025 6:00PM—7:30PM

Zoom

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,…

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Chicken Processing Workshop

Sep 16, 2025 9:00AM—2:00PM

Roseview Dairy 14882 255th Avenue Sleepy Eye, MN 56085

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…

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Homesteading Series – Meal Planning in Reverse

Aug 27, 2025 6:00PM—7:30PM

Online Zoom Event

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…

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Homesteading Series – Livestock Guardian Dogs 101

May 22, 2025 6:00PM—7:30PM

Webinar

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…

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Homesteading Series: How to Raise Your Own Meat Chickens This Summer

Apr 10, 2025 6:00PM—7:30PM

Zoom Webinar

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…

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Homesteading Series – Managing a Family Milk Cow & Processing Milk Safely at Home

Jun 26, 2025 6:00PM—8:00PM

Great Heritage Farm LLC, 57098 310th St. Winthrop, MN 55396

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…

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Homesteading Series – Tour of Alternative Roots Farm

May 29, 2025 6:00PM—8:00PM

Alternative Roots Farm 11197 130th Street Madelia, MN 56062

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…

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Past | Archive

Processing & Cleaning Native Pollinator Seeds

Nov 18, 2025 6:00PM—8:00PM

Urban Roots 1110 Payne Ave Saint Paul, MN 55130

Harvest Celebration: Growing Profit & Conservation Together

Nov 18, 2025 8:30AM—2:00PM

1303 4th Ave. NE Barnesville, MN 56514

Grow Your Green – Farmer Profitability Workshop

Nov 09, 2025 3:00PM—6:00PM

Three Sons Seltzer 201 North Sibley Litchfield, MN

Minnesota River Chapter Fall Meeting at Pub 500 Mankato

Nov 06, 2025 6:00PM—7:30PM

Pub 500 500 South Front St Mankato, MN 56001

Living Well through the Winter Webinar

Oct 29, 2025 6:00PM—7:30PM

Zoom

Tour and Social at American Peat Technology

Oct 29, 2025 3:30PM—5:30PM

American Peat Technology 36203 350th Avenue, Aitkin, MN 56431