LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT (U.S.):

An Inventory of its Sound and Visual Materials at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Land Stewardship Project (U.S.), creator.
	Title:	Sound and Visual Materials.
	Dates:	1975-2006.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Video recordings, slides and slide carousels, audio recordings, and snapshot photographs documenting the work of the Land Stewardship Project, issues it was concerned about, farm tours, the problem of urban sprawl, and the organization's anniversary observances.
	Quantity:	(7 boxes).

Sound and visual materials from various of the organization’s offices and kept by various staff members. Most of the material was produced to be shown to or to be listened to by gatherings of farmers and to outside groups and individuals. Sound and visual materials are also found scattered in various other record series, with accompanying paper files.

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ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:



		Videocassettes
		Slides
		Audiocassettes
		Photographs

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Land Stewardship Project (U.S.). Sound and Visual Materials. 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

VIDEOCASSETTES

All are VHS unless otherwise noted.

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-C (Room B-105.7)

Agriculture and wildlife, undated.

Tape No. 1.

Allan Savory at Faribault, January 8, 1991.

An agriculture that makes sense, 1994.

An agriculture that makes sense: Let's stop treating our soil like dirt, 1994.

Beginning farmer, June 1996.

Building sustainable communities in Minnesota, April 10, 1996.

Clarkfield workshop, March 2, 1989. 3 videocassettes.

Close to the ground: A team approach to on-farm monitoring, 1999.

Common ground, 1994.

Controlled grazing, 1991.

Conversations with farmers: Finding sustainable agriculture, undated.

Cover crops, 1991.

Covering new ground: Wisconsin's sustainable agriculture, April 1995.

Creating a sustainable future: Perspectives from five communities, undated.

Crop walk: Jubilee tree, 1999.

Crop walk: Our numbers make a difference, undated.

Crop walk: You can make a difference, undated.

Environmental journal: Program 233, 1999.

Ernesto Sirroli: Granite Falls/Enterprise facilitation, 2001.

Excellence in agriculture: Appleton, undated.

Farm on: Your best choice, June 1996.

Farm transitions: Family/farm business planning, undated.

Farm transitions: Farm planning process, undated.

Farm transitions: Making it work, undated.

Farming for the future: Let's stop treating our soil like dirt, 1994.

Farming for the future: Rotary hoe, nitrogen management, cover crops, controlled grazing, 1991.

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-D (Room B-105.7)

First steps: Moving toward sustainability, 1990.

Fred Kirschenmann (Madison, Minn.), February 9, 1989.

Tape No. 2.

Green corridors: Open spaces for tomorrow, 1998.

Hager Farm, undated.

Holistic resource management: Market to market, August 29, 1992.

Houses in the fields, 1992.

Houses in the fields, 1993.

Houses in the fields, 1995.

A video program about metropolitan farm land that is vanishing from our landscape.

Introduction to organic farming, 2001.

Keeping it all in the family: An estate conservation seminar, undated.

KSAX Minnesota rap, March 1994.

Land Stewardship Project tenth anniversary, 1992.

Land Stewardship Project fifteenth anniversary, 1997.

Land Stewardship Project twentieth anniversary: Storytelling tent, 2002. 2 videocassettes (Hi 8).

Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources: Cover crop video, 1995.

Mapping your way to a sustainable future, undated.

Market to market, January 23, 1998.

Montevideo workshop, March 16, 1989.

Nitrogen management, 1991.

Operation Future Association, October 1992.

Our food, our future, undated.

PACT - Kevin Cohler, May 9, 1996.

Passing on the farm center, undated, 1991. 14 videocassettes.

Includes introduction, estate planning, questions to ask, tax considerations, George Caffney, James Ulring.

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-D (Room B-105.7)

Planting in the dust, undated, 1984, 1986. 3 videocassettes.

Planting in the dust, approximately 1991. 1 video reel (Sony V-16 High Band Master).

KAWE-TV.

Preserving Minnesota's natural treasures: The story of scientific and natural areas, 2001.

Rediscovering the rural landscape, undated, 1998. 2 videocassettes.

Restoration of prairie potholes (short version), 1994.

Restoring America's streams, 1996.

Ron Hanson, University of Nebraska: Rochester conference, January 1998.

Roots of stewardship: Protecting America's private grazing lands, undated.

Rotary hoe, 1990.

Share the harvest of peace, undated.

Silent surrender: America's farm crisis, May 18, 1999.

ABC News "Nightline" television news program.

Social capital and sustainability, undated.

Sparking a revitalization in rural America, 1997.

Success strategies for your agricultural business, December 9, 1999.

Sumptuous sustainable supper, undated.

Swift County tour, undated.

Tom Frantzen, undated.

Tape 2.

Transferring the farm series, undated.

Making it work; Family/farm business planning; Planning; Farm planning process.

Transitions: Passing on farm task force, undsated.

Turn here sweet corn, 1990. 1 videocassette (U-matic).

Walking the journey: Sustainable agriculture that works, September 1992.

Who controls agriculture prices, undated. 2 videocassettes.

Wintering livestock alternatives, January 2001.

Wisconsin graze tour, 1997.

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SLIDES

Slides in folders, in small boxes, and in carousels.

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-D (Room B-105.7)

Excellence in agriculture, December 1988. 1 slide carousel and 1 folder.

Includes 1 audiocassette and scripts.

Farm beginnings: Hector project, 2002. 1 slide carousel.

Farming: Everyone's bread and butter, undated. 1 slide carousel.

Perspectives on land transfer, undated. 1 slide carousel and 1 folder.

Includes audiocassette.

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-E (Room B-105.7)

Planting trees for conservation, February 1988. 1 slide carousel.

Includes a "syllabus"for the slide set.

Tree planting on agricultural land, February 1988. 1 slide carousel.

Assorted Land Stewardship Project slides, undated. 1 slide carousel.

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-E (Room B-105.7)

Three-ring binders (disassembled), 1984-1991. 13 folders.

Originated in the Lewiston office. Includes a contents list covering the contents of the original five binders.

Clark's Marshall Bliss staff, 1980. 2 small boxes.

Harvest to harmony (incomplete), undated.

Includes 1 audiocassette.

In the country, 1975.

Land, undated, 1980.

Seeds of hope, undated.

South Dakota slides taken by Dave Bliss and Gerald Lange, 1980. 2 small boxes.

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-E (Room B-105.7)

Unidentified three-ring binder (disassembled), 1988-1989.

Dave Minar slides, 1996.

From harvest to harmony script, undated, 1996.

Script for unidentified slide presentation (?), undated.

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AUDIOCASSETTES

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-E (Room B-105.7)

Farming: Everyone's bread and butter, undated.

Produced by American Farm Project.

Final: Farm Beginnings, undated.

Frogs and toads of Minnesota, undated.

Stockman grass farmer, undated. 2 audiocassettes.

Dodge County dairy, December 2002.

Land Stewardship Project twentieth anniversary, August 2002.

Tim Hennig at wetland meeting, January 9, 2002.

Paul Sobo Parker Dan, March 25, 2003.

Willard Cochrane, October 16, 2003.

Bill Hefferman Nancy Barsness, March 15, 2004.

Community Supported Agriculture Round Table, February 10, 2004. 3 audiocassettes.

Audrey Arner, November 8, 2005.

Frances Moore Lappe, November 18, 2005.

Livestock strategies, January 8, 2004.

Postcard press conference, November 17, 2004.

Alimata travel, April 14, 2005.

Animal wise radio, March 26, 2006.

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-E (Room B-105.7)

Land Stewardship Project tenth anniversary celebration, November 14-15, 1992. 12 audiocassettes.

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Primarily snapshot photographs.

Location

Box

Shelf Q-12-E (Room B-105.7)

Farm Aid rally, undated.

Jones farm, 1987.

Minneapolis office scenes, Paul Wellstone, etc., 2001.

Mutual Benefit Insurance Company (Iowa), undated.

Northwest Missouri, 1987.

Outside the Supreme Court Building (Washington, D.C.), undated.

Photographs of unidentified people, evidently a Land Stewardship Project group, gathered outside the Supreme Court.

Second annual Sustainable Farming Association meeting, Hogs meeting in Boyd, undated.

Travelers Insurance Company (Wayne County, Iowa), 1987.

Miscellaneous photographs, undated.

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