Sowing Seeds 2024! Celebrating local foods & local skills

Sowing Seeds: Celebrating local foods & lost skills

Together let's plant the seeds of a more sustainable and resilient future!

Join us - and may like minded folks - for the second annual Sowing Seeds event!!

Tickets: Under 12 free, 12 and over $20, tickets are required
https://sfa-mn.org/minnesota-river/

Join the Minnesota River Chapter SFA, and Alternative Roots Farm, for a fun and memorable afternoon that’s all about celebrating local foods and rediscovering traditional self-sufficiency skills!

Featuring our community’s farmers and makers and set on a working farm, you’ll experience:

*Pop-Up Farmers Market*
....Barefoot Lane MN, Bartsch's Deep Roots Farm, Rebel Rooster Farm, Carlsonville Farm & Garden, Blue Dirt Farm, Moody Bees Honey, Under the Sun Herbs, Butter Cream Soaps., Alternative Roots Farm!!

*Skills demos*
...Sourdough Starter & Baking Basics, Maple Tapping 101, Using a Whole Chicken, Homemade Broth, Drying & Storing Herbs, Canning 101, Growing Great Garlic in Minnesota, Rendering & Using Lard, Wrapped Wood Basket, Homemade Soap and More!! and more!

*Kids Activities - craft, face painting with Making Faces Mankato, games and more!

*Wool to fleece fiber demo 11-2 with Dané Hiniker, Something New Farm

*TNT EATS Food Truck

*Farm Tours on a working Organic farm

Tickets: Under 12 free, 12 and over $20, tickets are required
https://sfa-mn.org/minnesota-river/

-->All ticket sales go to support the Minnesota River Sustainable Farming Association and their work locally.<--

Address: Alterative Roots Farm, 11197 130th St. Madelia, MN 56062
Parking: along the gravel road.

*Volunteers get in free!*
https://www.signupgenius.com/.../10C084CAFAF28A3F9C43...

Fall Apple Share Offerings for 2024

Fall Apple Share Offerings for 2024

*Sign up is currently open for returning members & wait list folks! If shares remain they will be opened up the end of the month!

Each week enjoy a 4 lb bag of fresh & local apples.

Each bag sports 1-2 varieties of our organic apples. A mix of standard, lesser known and old heritage types - 2021 harvest included 33 varieties! We'll send out a short weekly newsletter, with apple facts, orchard notes and a recipe. Begins the first week of September.

Weekly pick up locations:

A.R.F. farm store (Th., Fri., or Sat.) - 6 or 8 weeks

New Ulm Pick Up, Turner Halle Lot (Th. at 5:00pm) - 6 or 8 weeks

Saturdays at the Mankato Farmers Market - 6 weeks

$60 :: 6 week Fall Apple Share

$78 :: 8 week Fall Apple Share *best price

*4 lbs not enough? The option to sign up for 2 shares is available.

*New ... first dibs on other Fruit Shares that may become available (raspberries, plums).

SIGN ME UP! (coming soon)

Add to your Fall Apple Share Experience

Add on apple products and Winter Apple Shares.

Applesauce Share  ::  $88

A dozen jars of our clean-eating applesauce. Made with our delicious organic apples, a touch of local honey and organic lemon juice. Choose preferred month of pick up.

November Apple Share  ::  $25

A 10 lb bag of table apples for fresh eating, baking or preserving. Primarily late-season storage varieties. This share will land 2-3 weeks following the 8 week Fall Apple Shares and 1-2 weeks before Thanksgiving.

December Apple Share  ::  $25

A 10 lb bag of table apples for fresh eating, baking or preserving. Primarily late-season storage varieties. This share will land a month after the November Apple Share and 1-2 weeks before Christmas.

Storage Bushel  ::  $94

Stock the larder for winter! Receive a waxed box containing 40 lbs of table apples to store for fresh winter eating, at wholesale price. Select interest in sign up form. Final reservations made in October, for pick up by arrangement in early-mid winter.

SIGN ME UP! (coming soon)