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Our History
Blue Earth Farms Mission is to educate and inspire the the Lewis County community to realize healthy environmentally and economically sustainable lifestyles.
Our vision is the creation of a facility to hold educational workshops and classes for families focusing on sustainable living, organic farming, healthy lifestyles, sciences, and land stewardship. While all are welcome to attend, the classes are normally focused at ages 7 and up depending on your childs maturity level.
In our first year, 2007, we have, with the help of many of our community members, had the opportunity to make the first steps towards realizing this vision.
In 2008 we are adding additional summer weekday evening classes as well as beginning on our seasonal farmers market. If you are a local farmer interested in utilizing our market for produce sales please contact us.
In the future we hope to work with local farmers to enhance all of our ability to bring products to market utilizing means that are both environmentally and economically sustainable. Please contact us with any questions or ideas. Your input is important.
The barn, built in the mid 1940’s by the Cooke family is a two story New England Bank Barn. The upper story of the barn is in the process of being renovated and currently allows 2,800 square feet of classroom and meeting space. We have a ½ acre community garden and will increase the garden size as our program matures. In the future, we hope to install a commercial kitchen facility to allow cooking classes, support fundraising events and the seasonal market.
The kitchen will be designed to also allow for small-scale produce processing such as vegetable dehydration and freeze-drying. This will provide a much needed small scale processing location which we hope will bring new viable value added products to our local consumers, and expand our farmer’s economic boundaries.