Timeless Skills for an
Empowered Future
Est. 2018
Our mission is to encourage youth in a nature based learning environment to increase sufficiency skills, wisdom, confidence and connection to self and to the Earth. We are propelled by the belief that in order to embody a healthy sense of self, purpose and belonging in the world, we must also intimately meet the rhythms of the land, embody the wisdom therein and extend the privilege of that experience to others, especially those who are the least likely to have the ability to access such an opportunity otherwise.
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ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT NEW STORY FARM
Home School Thursdays
Time: 10am-1pm
For Ages: all ages, parents must attend with children
Bring your own lunch.
June 25
July 30
August 27
September 24
Families who Home School are welcome to visit the farm and spend time learning about the natural world through wild foraging, animal care, gentle farming tasks, group discussions and play in nature. Time together, as community in nature, is the change we wish to see in the world. Come once, come every week, come as you like and are.
Please be prepared to be outside the entire time and arrive by 10am as best as you can.
Text to let us know you're coming night before or morning of. Cancelled on rainy days.
Tuition : Our gift to you, because it takes a village.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Resiliency School is offered from our heart, we ask that you help us to continue this work and cover the costs of visitor insurance and website hosting by offering a sliding scale donation per person or plan to stay afterwards to help in the garden.
SUNDAY
MAY 3rd · 2pm
WILD FORAGING WALKABOUT +EARTH DAY CELEBRATION Join us for a walk around the 70 acre native prairie and forest in search of wild foods. Learn how to identify early Spring food and medicinal plants. Celebrate Earth Day with us in true agrarian fashion, learn about Regenerative Farming and Food Systems and participate in a ceremonial land blessing.
This event is around 3 hours and includes a short farm tour. Wear appropriate gear for the weather and be prepared to walk. Family-Friendly + All Welcome
cost: sliding scale donation of $10-$30 per person or plan to stay afterwards to help in the garden.
RSVP by May 1 through email or text
VENMO: @NewStoryFarm
paypal us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/newstoryfarm
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SATURDAY
MAY 30th · 2pm
WILD FORAGING WALKABOUT & FOLKLORE
Join us for a walk and wander around and through the 70 acre native prairie and forest in search of wild foods and ancient herbal folklore. Learn how to identify early Spring food and medicinal plants at a regenerative farm, @New Story Farm. Ruminate on what you learn in the shade overlooking proud mama cows and their young ones. Bring your binoculars, if you have them, as the vast diversity of bird life here is a sight to behold!
This event is around 2.5 hours. Wear appropriate gear for the weather and be prepared to walk. Family-Friendly + All Welcome
cost: sliding scale donation of $10-$30 per person or plan to stay afterwards to help in the garden.
RSVP by May 30 through email or text
VENMO: @NewStoryFarm
paypal us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/newstoryfarm
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Prairie Day
Sunday August 2nd
Time: 2pm-4pm
For Ages: all ages, family
SUNDAY
AUGUST 30 · 2pm
HOMESTEADING & PERMACULTURE 101 Come see permaculture in action at New Come see permaculture in action and what it looks like to grow 80% of your own food at New Story Farm.
Enjoy an afternoon learning about the basics of permaculture and seeing how we have implemented the principals on our regenerative farm. We will cover: South Central Minnesota Ecology 101 · Regenerative Agriculture + Food Systems, Planting a Food Forest, Water Management and Keyline Design, Rotational Grazing, Holistic Animal Management, Growing Perennials and Annuals.
We will also cover the basics of setting up a homestead for a life meeting most of your own needs along with some fun homesteading hacks we've come up with over the years. You will learn how we have been adapting our practices to rapid climate change and future plans we have to build further resiliency.
This event is around 3 hours. Wear appropriate gear for the weather and be prepared to walk. Family-Friendly + All Welcome
cost: sliding scale donation of $20-$40 per person or plan to stay afterwards to help in the garden.
RSVP by August 29 through email or text 320-582-0679
VENMO: @NewStoryFarm
paypal us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/newstoryfarm
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SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 27 · 2pm
WILD FORAGING + PLANT FIBER CORDAGE MAKING Join us for a walk around the 70 acre native prairie and forest in search of wild foods. Learn how to identify early Autumnal food and medicinal plants in the wilderness.
You will also get to make your own cordage from plant fibers growing on the land.
This event is 3 hours and includes a short farm tour. Bring hat, water bottle and appropriate shoes for being in nature.
Bring appropriate gear for the weather and be prepared to walk.
Family-Friendly + All Welcome
cost: sliding scale donation of $30-$50 per person or plan to stay afterwards to help in the garden.
RSVP by September 15 through email or text
VENMO: @NewStoryFarm
paypal us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/newstoryfarm
“We agrarians are involved in a hard, long, momentous contest, in which we are so far, and by a considerable margin, the losers. What we have undertaken to defend is the complex accomplishment of knowledge, cultural memory, skill, self-mastery, good sense, and fundamental decency—the high and indispensable art—for which we probably can find no better name than “good farming.” I mean farming as defined by agrarianism as opposed to farming as defined by industrialism: farming as the proper use and care of an immeasurable gift.”
Wendell Berry
What We're All About
We are a growing group of people impassioned by empowering others, inclusive of young adults and children, with self sufficiency skills, traditions and community. People have been disconnected from this vital way of living and working in a communal way that values the creative capacity of each individual. Modern mainstream culture has emphasized a devaluation of our connection with the Earth, with one another and with the profound experience of knowing ourselves. We offer a different perspective. A path to the future built on a foundation of connection, reawakening the wisdom and practices that sustain and regenerate ourselves and the earth.
