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Rural Revival

Reflection and Action on Rural Issues

Mission:

  • promote and enhance local food markets
  • provide information and tools for thoughtful generational land transfer
  • educate the community on a diverse set of rural issues

Meetings

  • the 4th Monday evening of each month
  • open to the public
  • at the Freeman Public Library

The Latest News & Stories

Hebda’s building brix

By Nathaniel Preheim on Feb 7, 2017

Ancient technology produces profitable produce

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Keeping Those Fields Covered

By Time Eisenbeis on Feb 3, 2017

For the Ortmans, crop diversity & rotations are essential

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Rural Revival Display at Schmeckfest

By Nathan Torberson on Mar 15, 2014

This year, Rural Revival will again have a display table at Schmeckfest. This year, the display will be in the Heritage Hall Museum building instead of Sterling Hall as in years past. All are encouraged to visit the display to learn more about Rural Revival. Local producers will also have information at the table. The theme of this year’s display is Beekeeping, and there will be an informative video playing during the festival.

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Farm Transitions

By S. Roy Kaufman on Feb 18, 2014

A recent issue of The Land Stewardship Newsletter (No. 4, 2013) featured articles highlighting a new initiative of the Land Stewardship Project (LSP), the well-established, Minnesota-based “rural revival” effort to keep “land and people together.” The initiative is “farm transitions.” It is designed to counter “current land consolidation trends,” and provides tools to assist farm owners and would-be farmers transition land to the next generation. LSP and the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA) have developed a Farm Transitions Toolkit for this purpose which can be accessed by calling 800-909-6472 or at www.

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