LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT (U.S.):

An Inventory of Its Lewiston Field Office Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

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OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Land Stewardship Project (U.S.), creator.
	Title:	Lewiston Field Office Files.
	Dates:	1978-2019.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Files originating in the field office at Lewiston, Minnesota (sometimes also called the Southeastern Minnesota Office) of the Land Stewardship Project.
	Quantity:	(10 boxes).
	Location:	Remote Storage: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Lewiston Field Office Staff The Lewiston Field Office generally maintained a staff of about six individuals, including a program director, program organizers, an educational workshops director, an office manager, and interns.

Staff in the field office conducted outreach to the general public, and worked with farmers, local faith leaders, and others to educate them about Regenerative Agriculture, erosion control, keeping feedlot runoff out of streams, and other areas of interest and concern to the organization. The office also conducted farm field days (visits) to members' farms, worked with beginning farmers to help them get established in the business, and worked for the preservation of the family farm.

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ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:



		Program Directors' Files
		Program Organizers' Files
		Chronological Files
		Subject Files

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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.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Land Stewardship Project (U.S.). Lewiston Field 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

PROGRAM DIRECTORS' FILES

Doug Nopar joined the Land Stewardship Project in 1983. He served initially as a field program organizer and then as director of the Model Stewardship County Program in Winona County. He served as Office Director/Program Director for southeastern Minnesota from 1987 to 1997. He administered the financial and personnel components of the Stewardship Farming Program in Southeastern Minnesota. Nopar held a bachelor's degree in social work from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Marsha Neff served as Office Director/Program Director at Lewiston from 1998 to 2007, where she was responsible for developing, managing, and evaluating a variety of educational, research, and organizing projects at local and state levels. She also served as an adjunct instructor at Winona State University, the University of Minnesota, and at some other Minnesota colleges and universities.

These are combined files of program directors Doug Nopar and Marsha Neff.

Location

Box

309.Z.11.3B

Bird stuff, 1996-1998.

Franciscans (Iowa), 1998.

Grant proposals, granting agencies, grant-funded programs:

Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, 1997-1999.

American Lutheran Church, 1986.

Blandin Foundation, 1994-1999. 2 folders.

Bush Foundation, 1990-1991.

Butler Family Foundation, 1992-1993.

Campaign for Human Development, 1986-1995. 5 folders.

Catholic Aid Society, 1995.

Catholic Campaign for Human Development, 1996-2000. 2 folders.

Dairy Diagnostics, 1997-2000. 2 folders.

Department of Natural Resources grant, 2000.

Environmental Protection Agency, 1997-2001. 4 folders.

Includes 1 2.5-inch floppy disk.

Fund for Rural America, 1997-1998.

Heifer Project, 1996-2000. 2 folders.

King Foundation, 1997.

Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCMR), 1998.

Location

Box

309.Z.11.4F

Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCMR), 1998-2000. 3 folders.

Lewiston Community Fund, 1999.

Mardag Foundation, 1987-1998.

Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, 1988-1991.

McKnight Foundation, 1997.

Merck Family Foundation, 1999.

Minneapolis Foundation, 1997-1998.

Minnesota Bankers Association fund-raiser, 1997.

Minnesota Department of Agriculture, 1998-1999. 2 folders.

Minnesota Environmental Fund, 1998.

Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, 1996-1999.

Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance, 1999-2000.

Needmor Foundation, 1986-2000.

Otto Bremer Foundation, 1993.

Perennial Legumes for Sustainable Pasture Systems, 1997-2001. 3 folders.

Sisters of Charity, BVM, 1994-1998.

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE), 1996-1999.

Grazing, undated, 1991-2001. 5 folders.

Kellogg Project, 1999.

March marketing meeting, 2000.

Minnesota Extension Service, 1994.

Monitoring, undated.

Sustainable Agriculture display, 1999-2000.

Tours, 1997.

Wisconsin: Beginning Farmers Program, 1996-1997.

Wisconsin: Rotational grazing and riparian management, 1997-1998.

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PROGRAM ORGANIZERS' FILES

Richard Ness served as On-Farms Research Director. He held a master's degree in animal science from Iowa State University, and served as a livestock production specialist with Iowa State University Extension. He had several years' experience in sustainable farming practices working with the Center for Rural Affairs.

Combined files of program organizers Richard Ness, Caroline Van Schaik, Terry VanDerPol, and Bobby King.

Location

Box

309.Z.11.4F

Agri-environmental indicators, 2001. 2 folders.

Alliance Dairy, 2000.

Atrazine, 2007-2008.

Beginning Farmer conference, 2004.

Beginning farmers, 2001.

"Beyond profitability: using financial indicators to measure sustainability," 2000-2001.

Bobby King: Notes, undated.

Bobby King: Performance evaluation, 2007.

Buy Fresh Buy Local (BFBL), undated, 2007-2008. 3 folders.

Center for Health Design, 2006.

Chippewa River, 1995.

Citizens Task Force on Livestock Farmers and Rural Communities, 2004.

Clippings, 1995-2008.

Close to the ground newsletter, 1999-2001.

Location

Box

309.Z.11.5B

Community Based Food Systems:

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), 1991-2009. 4 folders.

Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), undated, 2004.

Holistic Resource Management course manuals, undated, 1993. 2 folders.

Interview with Dana Jackson and Brian DeVore, 2001.

Monitoring project, 1994-2001. 4 folders.

Multiple Benefits of Agriculture (MBA), 2000-2006. 5 folders.

Pride of the Prairie, undated, 2001-2007. 7 folders.

Stewardship food directory, 2008.

Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SWAG), 1988-1997. 7 folders.

Miscellany, 2005.

Community Food & Farm Festival Living Green Expo, 2004-2006.

Community gardens, 2006.

Community Reinvestment Fund, 1990.

Consolidation in food retailing and dairy, 2001.

Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture, 1999.

Conservation Security Program, 2002.

Correspondence and emails, 2002-2008.

Dairy Team (University of Wisconsin Extension): Low cost milking parlor, 2003. 1 DVD.

Dairy and milk, undated, 2008.

Dakota County: Contamination of drinking wells, 2005.

Direct marketing, 1999.

Entrepreneur, 1997.

Farm Beginnings program, 2001-2004. 11 folders.

Farm Beginnings/Livestock Loan: Committee notes, 2002-2003.

Farm business management: An adult educational program, 2000-2001.

Farm-to-School, 2000-2002.

Farmers a New Generation, 2003.

Farmland protection, 2000-2001.

Field Days, undated, 2003-2004. 3 folders.

Grazing, 1993-1994. 8 folders.

Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture, 1995-1998.

Location

Box

309.Z.11.6F

Holistic resource management, 1991-2002. 14 folders.

Includes 5 videocassettes (VHS).

Land Stewardship Project book of administrative forms, staff lists, policy statements, etc. (disassembled), 1996.

Land Stewardship Project family farm breakfasts, 2007-2008.

Land Stewardship Project policy statements and fact sheets, 2007-2008.

Leadership and conservation: restoring community through consensus, 1996.

Legislation, 2004.

Litigation, 2000-2008.

Livestock, 2004-2007.

Livestock loan, 2002-2003.

Local control, 1993-2005.

Mentorship, 2002-2003.

Minnesota agriculture statistics, 1997.

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board: Animal agriculture in Minnesota, 2001.

Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA), 1995-1997.

Minnesota Institute of Speleology, 1987.

Minnesota Milk Producers Association, 2005.

Minnesota Planning Agency: Environmental Quality Board, 2002.

Minnesota Policy Blueprint: Agriculture, Task Force 15, undated.

Minnesota Project, 1998.

Monitoring Project meetings, 1995-2003.

Monitoring proposal: Pesticide reduction, 1998.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, undated.

National Organizers Alliance, 2008.

National Resource Conservation Service, 1997-2000. 3 folders.

New Immigrants Project, 2003.

North Central Region SARE program: Funding recommendations, 2001.

Organic certification, 1998-2000.

Organizing your community against large-scale animal feedlot pollution, 1998.

Passing on the Farm, 1997.

Paul Wotzka, 2007.

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency hydrologist.

Pax Christie talk, 2000.

Protect township rights, 2006.

Reinvest in Minnesota: clean energy program guidelines and standards, 2008.

Republicans, undated, 2003.

Richard Ness Day gubernatorial proclamation, 2002.

Rock County: Feedlot issues, 2002-2003.

Scott County: Preservation of farmland, 2008.

Self-assessments, undated.

Southeast Experiment in Rural Cooperation, 1999-2000.

Southeast Land Stewardship Project office newsletter, undated. 1 paste-up issue.

Sinkholes and water quality, 2006.

Township interim ordinances, 1996-2005.

Triple A Dairy presentation, 2001.

University of Minnesota, undated, 2007-2008.

Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference, 2002-2004. 2 folders.

Urban sprawl/1000 Friends of Minnesota, 1995.

Values clarification goal-setting, 2002.

Watershed Project, 1996-1998.

Location

Box

309.Z.11.7B

Weekend readings, 1993-2003.

Whitewater, 1995-1997.

Whole farm planning, undated.

Wisconsin integrated cropping systems trial, 2001-2003.

Miscellany: Bobby King, 2000-2008.

Miscellany: Caroline Van Shaik, 1998-2004.

Miscellany: Richard Ness, 2000-2002.

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CHRONOLOGICAL FILES

Files kept by Karen Benson, Lewiston office manager.

Location

Box

309.Z.11.7B

Banker-farmer forum, 1997.

John Cockrell trip, 1997.

Program flyers, 1997.

What's in Store for You as a Dairy Farmer, 1997.

Animal meeting, 1998.

Dairy Management Groups Workshop, 1998.

Doug G. workshop 1998.

Farm Transfer Workshop, 1998.

Flyers, 1998.

Organic Livestock Marketing workshops, 1998.

Quality Pastures Workshop, 1998.

Scaife field day, 1998.

Steering Committee, 1996-1998.

Thicke field day, 1998.

Annual meeting, 1999.

Art Thicke field day, 1999.

Dairy health meeting, 1999.

Dairy Marketing Workshop, 1999.

Flyers, 1999.

Joel Salatin workshops, 1999.

Open house, 1999.

Regulating Feedlots, 1999.

2000.

Annual meeting, 2000.

Compost field day, 2000.

Farm Fest, 2000.

Flyers, 2000.

Market Gardening Workshop, 2000.

Reap New Profits Marketing Workshop, 2000.

Scaife's field day, 2000.

Seed Savers tour, 2000.

Township meeting, 2000.

Tractor to Table Workshop, 2000.

Annual meeting, 2001.

Miscellany, 2001.

2002.

2003.

Annual meeting, 2004.

Events, 2004.

Gary Holthaus book reading, 2004.

Earth Day, 2005.

Frances Moore Lappe event, 2005.

Garden tour, 2005.

Hog Roast, 2005.

Two Per Cent Sunday, 2005.

Garden tour, 2006.

Hog roast, 2006.

Knitting-It-All-Together, 2006.

Local Foods Forum and Expo, 2006.

Oxfam farmer, 2006.

Voices of Minnesota Farm Women documentary, 2006.

Miscellany, 2006.

August flood, 2007.

On-Farm - Erickson Family, 2007.

Twenty-fifth anniversary, 2007.

Miscellany, 2007.

Hog roast, 2008.

Organic Farming Conference, 2008.


Location	Box
309.Z.11.8F	58	2009.

2010.

Hog roast, 2011.

2012.

2013.

2014.

2018.

2019.

undated.

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SUBJECT FILES

Location

Box

309.Z.11.8F

Absentee owner correspondence, 1986-1987.

Agriculture reform video interview transcriptions, 1994.

Alternative land tenure, undated, 1984-1988.

Amish, undated.

Banquet, 1987.

Church-based organizing, 1994-1995.

Church talks, undated, 1989.

Clippings: General, 1985-2011.

Clippings scrapbooks (disassembled), 1984-2000. 8 folders.

Conservation Reserve Program: Land Transfer Project, 1993-1996. 2 folders.

Location

Box

309.Z.11.9B

Correspondence: Marine office, 1989.

County: Soil erosion, undated, 1987.

Desktop publishing samples, undated, 1989.

Development: Research and planning study report, 1992.

Earth Day activities and information, 1990-1996.

Evaluations - Program, 1987-1991.

"Excellence in agriculture": Interviews and slide show script, 1987.

Faith-based organizing, 1992-1994.

Farm demographics, 1987-1988.

Farmer cooperators, undated, 1985-1991. 6 folders.

Farming practices questionnaire, 1987.

Farmland Investor Accountability Program (FIAP), 1985-1989.

Field days, 1990.

Flyer samples and originals, 1990-1991.

Flyers for field days, 1990.

Funding diversification, 1989-1990.

Gary Zimmer's handouts, 1987-1990.

History of Land Stewardship Project, 1985-1992.

Hydrogen Sulfide issues, 1994-1995.

Information packet - sample, undated, 1989.

Interviews, 1996-2001.

"Knitting it all together: a day to celebrate community," 1995-1996.

Lac Qui Parle Association, 1988.

Land notes, 1985-1991.

Unpublished newsletter.

Land Stewardship Project materials, undated. 1 volume.

Materials are experimental for study and discussion purposes of the Land Stewardship Project only.

LISA rotational grazing project report, 1991.

Lobbying and the Internal Revenue Service, 1995.

Marine office, 1990-1992.

Marketing - General, 1990.

Mechanical weed control, 1990-1991.

Meetings, 1987.

Location

Box

309.Z.14.7B

Meredith Levy files:

Meredith Levy was an intern in the Lewiston office.

Bank reinvestment strategies, 1990-1994.

Banks and the Community Reinvestment Act, 1988-1993.

Case studies, 1996.

Community Reinvestment Act, 1987-1996. 5 folders.

Farm Service Agency, 1994-1995.

Farmland Investor Accountability Program: Bankers survey, 1990.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) applications, 1995-1996.

Miscellaneous news clippings, information, and miscellany, 1990.

Montevideo, 1989-1991.

Nitrogen management, 1990-1991.

Old fact sheets, undated.

On-farm composting, 1990-1991.

Organizing, 1994-1997.

People, 1985-1988.

Photograph of staff members outside Lewiston office, 2008.

Plays:

Look who's knockin', promotional aids, 2011. Includes 1 CD-ROM containing photographs from the play.

Planting in the dust promotional aids, 1984-1989.

Song for the earth promotional aids, 1988-1990.

Popular education, 1990.

"Prairie visions" workshop, 1989-1994.

Press releases, 1988-1997.

Program planning, 1988-1990.

Quotable quotes, undated.

Religion:

General, 1983-1988.

American Friends Service Committee, 1987.

Baptist, 1987.

Catholic, 1980-1989.

Jewish, 1986-1994.

Lutheran, 1978-1989.

Methodist, 1988.

Native American spirituality, 1987-1993.

Presbyterian, 1985-1988.

Location

Box

309.Z.11.10F

Research: Philosophy, 1985-1992. 3 folders.

Research and planning study, 1992.

Reshaping - Promotion, 1987-1989.

Si Kahn, 1994.

Social change, 1989.

Soil and water stewardship materials, 1987.

Sowing a future for the land, 1988.

Stewardship Farming Program, undated, 1987-1991. 6 folders.

Southeastern Minnesota Groundwater Survey, 1990.

Summaries, 1989.

Sustainable Farming Association: Northeastern Minnesota, 1990.

Tours, 1987-1989. 3 folders.

Training and conference materials, undated, 1990.

Training and organizational development, 1996.

Tree nursery, 1992-1994.

Tree plantings, 1985-1986.

University of Minnesota:

1988.

Extension correspondence, 1987-1989.

Lamberton field day, 1988.

Policy work, 1986-1990.

Location

Box

309.Z.14.8F

Sponsored research, 1989-1990. 3 folders.

Sustainers group, 1987-1988.

Winona County:

Absentee owner research, 1982-1988.

Ag-stravaganza, 1985.

Center for Urban and Rural Affairs (CURA), 1987.

Conservation leases, 1985-1988. 2 folders.

General, 1987-1988.

Marvin Simon's comments, 1986.

Model County Program, 1988.

Organizations: Farmers market, 1987.

Organizations: YMCA, 1985.

Planning and zoning, 1984-1988. 2 folders.

Tree planting, 1985.

Workshop/training materials to share, 1978-1998.

Workshops, 1987-1990. 3 folders.

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