Round River Outreach & Education

Round River Farm , & Renewables LLC and Financial Services LLC , and our non-profit Shalom Seed Sanctuary , provide educational opportunities for a lot of different groups. We have had delegations from Nicaragua, toddlers from pre-school, professors from colleges and universities, youth groups from regional churches. Over the years, we have developed classes, workshops, curriculum and patience as we host up to 1000 visiters to the farm each year.

If you are interested in Farm & North House Folk School (NHFS) Workshops or
On-Farm Classes
just click these links. It you are curious about the Friendly Finland Farmers Fact Sheets developed through on-farm reaserch funded by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture Energy and Sustainable Agriculture Program. One is about our work to grow orchard trees within a pasture Orchards in Pasture another one caused quite a stir since the research was on Pigs Plowing roping in several TV stations that had to get in on the action.

We have also had the opportunity to teach and present as far away as North Carolina and officiate weddings as far away as New York. However, most our outreach has been local.

We also direct Shalom Seed Sanctuary, a not-for-profit organization that has put together the Sustainable Food Systems Curriculum curriculum. Over the years we have provided 65 classes, reaching about 1820 students in 650 class periods at 14 different schools taught by 19 different farmers. The curriculum was written to help increase basic food literacy and give consumers a more sophisticated understanding of the economics of our food system options, health and food system on rural communities, and the history of our regional food system with a goal:

"to build awareness of sustainble food and farming issues
by providing hands-on, passionate, farmer to student curriculum"


Round River Farm , & Renewables LLC and Financial Services LLC , and our non-profit Shalom Seed Sanctuary outreach has been a wonderful experience and a great opportunity for learning, including us, and since we still search for food literacy, healthy, happy and rich sustainable farmers, and World peace our outreach and education continues...


Story about Round River Farm below:
Renewing the Countryside

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