About Us:
Mission:
To advance a resilient agriculture system that demonstrates the power to heal our lands, nourish our communities, and prepare emerging farmers.
Vision:
We envision a world where food and agriculture systems are profitable for farmers, fair to workers, beneficial to consumer health, restorative for rural communities, and regenerative for the environment.
We provide land access.
The number one barrier to farming is land access. By removing obstacles to land and infrastructure, we create stable pathways for emerging farmers and gardeners to thrive. We are committed to ensuring access to those on the margins of farming in America— helping turn dreams into regenerative farms that strengthen our local food system.
We work to dismantle the barriers in our agricultural system created by pervasive racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and classism that have denied marginalized groups equitable access to the basic needs that sustain all of us: food, water, and land.
We create shared economy.
Through our initiatives, we are establishing local cooperative growing endeavors. We currently feed nearly 200 households; last year, the spirit of community care inspired our 125+ gardeners to distribute 1/3 of the 30,000 pounds of produce grown beyond their families!
Our Commons Cohort members farm in community, sharing infrastructure, resources, and knowledge.
Our Community Connectors support local food security and sovereignty across 7 community gardens in Northfield and Faribault.
We model resiliency.
We demonstrate perennial agriculture’s capacity to heal the land and care for community. We are a land-based organization, rooted in the 163-acre
Sharing Our Roots Farm.
Through regenerative farming practices, we are restoring the farmland from decades of monocropped corn and soy production into a vibrant community of wildlife, plants, and humans.
Our Natural Lands initiative restores waterways, collects native seeds, plants indigenous prairie species, and protects native habitats.