Sacred Paths Farm

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Our farm begun in the late 1960’s by Dorthea  and Harold Engstrom, my grandparents. Their story began when they met in the late 1920’s in college, where they both finished their degree in forestry from the University of Minnesota. Dorthea was one of the very first women in the country to receive a degree in forestry. They both had high ideals of conservation, shaped by the likes of Aldo Leopold (their professor at the University). Read the rest of this entry »

We chose the name Sacred Paths Farm, for we believe that growing food is a “sacred path”; Farming is the path that we have chosen as our purpose and gift, to share with our family, our community, and the planet we all inhabit. Read the rest of this entry »

“…ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community whose every member possesses this art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.”  -Abraham Lincoln 1859 Read the rest of this entry »