Contact: Karen Stettler, southeast Minnesota, 507-523-3366
Amy Bacigalupo, western Minnesota, 320-269-2105

4/23/04
Grass-based dairying, vegetable production, Community Supported Agriculture, on-farm dairy processing, organic beef production, pasturing swine, organic crop production, and appropriate technology for small farmers will be the focus of a series of Land Stewardship Project (LSP) Farm Beginnings field days being held in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin this spring and summer. To attend a field day, call LSP’s southeast Minnesota office at 507-523-3366, or our western Minnesota office at 320-269-2105, to reserve a spot and get directions. LSP members can attend these field days for free. The fee for nonmembers is $5 per person and $10 per family. If you choose to become a member of LSP the day of a tour, an immediate benefit will be free admission.

Field day dates and locations:
• Saturday, May 8, Delano, Minn.—Vegetable production and direct marketing to restaurants

• Saturday, May 8, Postville, Iowa—Community Supported Agriculture vegetable production, vegetable handling and cooperative ventures

•Thursday, May 20, New Prague, Minn.—On-farm dairy processing

• Saturday, June 12, Clearwater, Minn.—Organic beef grazing

• Wednesday, June 16, Minneiska, Minn.—Organic milk production using managed intensive rotational grazing; grassland bird responses to intensive rotational grazing with Melissa Driscoll

• Saturday, June 19, Kerkhoven, Minn.—Pasturing hogs and dairy heifers

• Saturday, June 26, Madison, Minn.—Pork and organic crop production

• Thursday, July 15, Prairie Farm, Wis.—Community Supported Agriculture vegetable production and profitability; what it takes to be a successful beginning vegetable farmer

• Saturday, July 31, Wykoff, Minn.—Low-cost, appropriate technologies for small farmers; Community Supported Agriculture vegetable production

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