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,…
View MoreChicken 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…
View MoreHomesteading 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…
View MoreHomesteading 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…
View MoreHomesteading 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…
View MoreHomesteading 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…
View MoreHomesteading 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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