LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT (U.S.):

An Inventory of Its Metro (Headquarters) Office Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

Part or all of this collection is restricted.
For details, please see restrictions.

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Land Stewardship Project (U.S.), creator.
	Title:	Metro (Headquarters) Office Files.
	Dates:	1980-2020.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Administrative and other records of the Land Stewardship Project's central office, whose location changed over the years but which was always based in the Twin Cities area.
	Quantity:	(12 boxes).
	Location:	Remote Storage: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

The Metro (Headquarters) Office was initially located in Saint Paul, and then for many years was at White Bear Lake. For a time it was located in a farmhouse at Wilder Forest, near Marine-on-St. Croix. It eventually moved to South Minneapolis. In addition to concerning itself with Twin Cities-Area activities, including urban sprawl and the preservation of metropolitan area family farms, it provided oversight to the Lewiston and Montevideo field offices and to the Policy Office. The executive director, the associate director, and certain other staff worked out of the Metro (Headquarters) Office.

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SCOPE AND CONTENTS

This series includes articles of incorporation, administrative assistant's files, board of directors meeting minutes and files, the public information director's files, some financial records and reports, organization-wide newsletters, and similar records.

Included as well are several files of background information pertinent to the entire organization, including a staff list, a list of acronyms and abbreviations used by staff throughout the collection, and some narrative information gathered and compiled by the cataloger that may be useful to researchers.

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ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:



		Administrative and Corporate Records
		Administrative Assistant/Office Manager (Louise Arbuckle)
		Board of Directors
		Development Director (Richard Engdahl)
		Communications (Newsletters)
		Ellington Planning Committee Library
		Membership (Abby Liesch Files)
		Public Information Director (Lynne Reeck)
		Publications, Articles, DVDs

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Access Restrictions:

This collection is located off site in Remote Storage. Advance arrangements are required in order to view its contents. Please consult the reference staff for more information.

Board and Executive Committee minutes and correspondence for the Land Stewardship Project and Land Stewardship Action Fund are restricted until 2046 unless permission is granted from the Executive Director of the Land Stewardship Project.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Land Stewardship Project (U.S.). Metro (Headquarters) Office Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 17,856

Processing Information:

Processed by David B. Peterson, April 2023.

Catalog ID number: 9989836540204294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

ADMINISTRATIVE AND CORPORATE RECORDS

Location

Box

309.Z.14.8F

Background information about Land Stewardship Project:

Acronym glossary, undated.

Board of Directors, 1994-2002.

Historical narratives, 1991-2020.

Mission statements, undated, 1999-2007.

Programs, 1990-2015.

Staff lists and resumes, undated, 1986-2019.

Timelines, 1992-2007.

Miscellany, undated, 2019.

Location

Box

309.Z.9.8F

Annual reports, 1984-1996.

Issues wanting.

Articles of incorporation (restated), undated.

Audit reports, 1998-2010. 2 folders.

Budget, 1991-1993.

Budget and finance, 1992-1994.

Federal income tax return (Form 990), 1998.

Tax correspondence, 1984-1990.

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT/OFFICE MANAGER (LOUISE ARBUCKLE)

Location

Box

309.Z.9.8F

Articles/archive brochures, 1991-1994.

Barn raising pictures from George, October 2007. 1 CD-ROM.

Board members, 1987-1993. 5 folders.

Congregational directory & resource guide, 1995.

Consultants, 1982-1997. 9 folders.

Controlled grazing, undated.

Farmer to consumer directory: Southeast Minnesota, 1999-2000.

Farmland and the tax bill, 1994.

My old files, 2001. 1 CD-RW.

Post card press conference photographs, November 17, 2004. 1 CD-ROM.

Pride of the Prairie: Local foods guide for the Upper Minnesota River Valley, undated.

Profitability of four sustainable farms in Minnesota, approximately 1992.

Sustainable Farming Association of Southeast Minnesota: Joint membership, 1995.

Tenth anniversary celebration, 1992.

To till it and keep it: new models for congregational involvement with the land, 1995.

A joint project of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Land Stewardship Project.

Twenty-fifth anniversary celebration audio, August 2, 2007. 1 CD-ROM.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Access Restricted.

Location

Box

309.Z.6.7B

Board of Directors:

undated, 1996.

Board and Executive Committee, 1989-1993.

Board emeritus, 2009-2010.

Board gathering, 1997.

Board meetings, 1995-1998. 11 folders.

Location

Box

309.Z.6.8F

Board meetings, 2001.

Board meetings, 2001-2013. 36 folders.

Location

Box

309.Z.6.9B

Board meetings, 2013-2016. 11 folders.

Board members' briefing books, 1992-1993. 3 folders.

Board members miscellany, 1993.

Board retreats, 2003-2009, 2011, 2016. 3 folders.

Miscellany, 2006-2008.

Board/Staff Task Force, 1992-1993.

Location

Box

309.Z.8.9B

Board of Directors, 1992-2006. 18 folders.

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DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR (RICHARD ENGDAHL)

Location

Box

309.Z.9.8F

Archive reports, 1993-1994.

Board Development Committee, 1993.

Board Task Force, 1990-1993.

Canadian mailing, 1993.

Cold list, 1992-1993.

Comprehensive development, 1992.

Direct mail, 1989-1993. 10 folders.

Direct mail purges, 1989-1994. 11 folders.

Direct mail results/statistics, 1987-1995.

Donor mailings, 1992-1994. 3 folders.

Factory farm campaign direct mailing, 1993.

Fiscal year end appeal, June 1994.

Initial membership drive letters - appeals, 1994-1995.

Lapsed donor, March 1994.

Lapsed donor mailing, May 24, 1995.

Location

Box

309.Z.9.9B

Letters for information requests, thank-you letters, undated, 1995.

Membership, 1994-1994. 4 folders.

Metro farm, 1993.

Phonothon follow-up, 1994.

Prospect mailing, 1994.

Research and planning study, 1992.

Speech information, 1991-1992.

Staff letters for membership, Board letters for membership, 1994.

Sustainable Farming Association chapter fund-raising, 1993.

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COMMUNICATIONS (NEWSLETTERS)

Location

Box

309.Z.9.9B

Land stewardship letter, 1983-2010. 19 folders.

Staff notes newsletter, 1986-1988. 3 folders.

Location

Box

309.Z.9.10F

Staff notes newsletter, 1989-2004. 26 folders.

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ELLINGTON PLANNING COMMITTEE LIBRARY

Includes journal articles; copies of letters; news clippings; publications from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Iowa State University, and the United States Department of Agriculture; and similar materials, having mostly to do with pigs, feedlots, and waste lagoons.

Location

Box

309.Z.9.10F

Index.

Items 1-19.

Location

Box

309.Z.10.1B

Items 20-518.

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MEMBERSHIP (ABBY LIESCH FILES)

Location

Box

309.Z.10.1B

Community Supported Agriculture directory, 2010.

Community Supported Agriculture directory sign-up, 2011.

Community Supported Agriculture Farm directories (Twin Cities region), 1999-2000, 2004-2016. 2 folders.

Community Supported Agriculture-Stewardship Food directory, 2009.

Farmer to consumer directory, 1995-2000.

New member pack, 2007-2008.

Stewardship Farm directory, 2009-2012. 3 folders.

Stewardship Farm directory files, 2011. 2 folders.

Stewardship food directory files, 2011-2012.

Stewardship food directory, 2009.

Stewardship food directory surveys, 2009.

Miscellany, undated, 2006-2008.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION DIRECTOR (LYNNE REECK)

This person may also have been Lynne Krehbiel.

Location

Box

309.Z.10.1B

Advertising/marketing, 1989-1990. 2 folders.

Big Sky, Montana, 1991-1993.

Booth requests, 1990-1991.

Carmen Borgerding memorial, 1990.

Center for Rural Affairs (Walthill, Nebraska), 1990.

Center for Science in the Public Interest conference, 1990.

Location

Box

309.Z.1.2F

Church news clippings, 1989-1990.

Church quotes, 1986-1990.

Cornelia Butler flora evaluation, undated.

Cultural programs, 1991-1994.

Dennis Crow, 1990.

Excellence in Agriculture, 1989. 2 folders.

Fernanda Turner, 1989.

File for church talk, 1986-1992. 2 folders.

Flyers, undated.

Information for writing articles, 1985-1989.

Interviews, undated.

Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship: Directory, 1994.

Judson Memorial Baptist Church, 1990.

KAWE - Bemidji, 1987-1989.

Land Stewardship Project articles, 1988-1990.

Laura Clark: Letters of praise received for her performance, 1987.

Loose names, 1988-1990.

Lyndon LaRouche, 1989.

Manitoba Educational Television, 1989.

Marketing Board, 1994.

Marketing records and videos for booklets, 1990-1991.

There are no video recordings in this file.

Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, 1991-1992.

Minnesota Extension Service, 1990.

Minnesota Project Conference, 1992-1993.

Minuteman copy cat, 1992.

Mother Earth, 1990.

New Rondo Community Trust, undated.

News releases, 1989-1990.

Northwest Airlines, 1989.

Northwest Area Foundation: Which row to hoe, 1992.

Paul Brossard, 1990.

Procedure for information requests, 1990.

Project Stewardship Minnesota, 1987-1990.

Ray Epp, 1990.

Religious information and pieces, 1988-1995.

Residencies, 1989-1990.

Resumes, 1989.

Sam Fuqua, 1990.

Sara Ebenreck, 1989-1990.

Seminary consortium, 1992-1994.

Seminary students, 1994.

Soil Walk, undated.

Sowing a future for the land, 1988.

Task forces, 1991.

United Theological Seminary: Vocation in context field study, 1994.

Video resources, 1990.

There are no video recordings in this file.

Vo Ag 1988-1991.

Winnipeg Fringe Festival, 1990-1991.

Winona Model County program, undated.

Wes Jackson, 1990.

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PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES, DVDS

Location

Box

309.Z.1.2F

An agriculture that makes sense: profitability of four sustainable farms, undated.

Bio science article, 2002-2009.

Brian DeVore: Dead zone puzzle article in Minnesota conservation volunteer, 2001.

Brochures, undated, 2008.

Bumper stickers, undated.

Controlling urban sprawl: the next step, undated. 1 videocassette(VHS).

Close to the ground: a team approach to on-farm monitoring, undated. 1 DVD.

Crop insurance: How a safety net became a farm policy disaster, approximately 2014.

Location

Box

309.Z.14.3B

Excellence in agriculture: interviews with 10 Minnesota stewardship farmers, 1987-1988.

Farming for optimal results: Principles for the 2001 farm bill, 1998.

Farming the Lord's land: Christian perspectives on American agriculture, 1980.

Farming to capture carbon & address climate change through building soil health, 2010.

Farmland access financial decision-making tool, undated.

Fish articles, 2000-2007.

Impact of Roundup/Glyphosate on nutrient sufficiency, disease & agricultural sustainability, 2011. 1 DVD.

Killing competition with captive supplies, April 1999.

Land Stewardship Project study and discussion materials, undated.

Livestock on the land: a new look at livestock in Southeast Minnesota, undated. 1 DVD.

"Look who's knockin'" one-act play, undated.

Making sense of federal farm conservation programs, Autumn 1999.

Making the most of Freedom to Farm, 1997.

Mechanical weed control, undated.

Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture: Local foods: where to find it, how to buy it, 2005.

Monitoring sustainable agriculture with conventional financial data, 1996.

Monitoring tool box, 1998. 2 folders.

Includes 1 audiocassette.

Multiple benefits of agriculture: an economic, environmental & social analysis, 2001.

New dawn of farming: the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota's Formation & growth, 1998.

Nitrogen management, undated.

Northwest Area Foundation: A better row to hoe, 1994.

On-farm composting, undated.

Patterns and trends of sustainable agriculture Phase II report, 1993.

Planting in the dust script, 1994.

Pride of the prairie: Buy fresh, buy local, undated.

Prosperous farms and a healthy land: Reforming U.S. farm policy, 2005.

Protecting you township from unwanted development (2nd edition), August 2006.

Renting it out right: resources for non-operating landowners, 2017.

Soil erosion article from Plainview news, February 22, 1983.

Soil health, water & climate change: a pocket guide, 2017.

Soil loss and your burger, 2007.

Successful whole farm planning, 1996.

Sustainable agriculture and sustainable communities, undated.

Location

Box

309.Z.10.2F

Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota chapter resource book, 1994.

Syngenta Corporation & Atrazine: the cost to the land, people & democracy, 2010.

Vision for the future: stewardship, justice, democracy health, community (2009-2014).

Land Stewardship Project 5 year plan.

Voices of Minnesota farm women educational packet, 2006.

Includes 1 DVD.

Water, Grass & livestock: an annotated bibliography, 2001.

Whole farm planning: what it takes, 1997.

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