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Living Earth Center brings people of all traditions together to cultivate common ground and seek justice through education, encounter, and community agriculture.


Sharing Common Ground

Like a healthy ecosystem, we believe that everyone has something important and valuable to offer to our local and greater Earth community. We believe in bringing people with different backgrounds and strengths together to share common ground over food, learning and storytelling. We invite you to join us in celebrating nature's abundance and honoring our shared resilience and responsibility in the interconnection of everything. 


News and Updates


Fall is officially apple season, and I am lucky enough to have generous friends with an apple tree in their backyard. They invited my youngest and I over to pick any apples we wanted, and we came home with a full bag of apples just perfect for making apple butter.

I absolutely love apple butter on toast or english muffins. Its sweet cinnamon goodness is the perfect taste of fall. The recipe mentions storing the apple butter by freezing. I have always canned mine (using the hot water bath method for 10 minutes with a 1/4" of headspace). It will produce around 3 pints of apple butter, so you will have more than enough to eat some right away, share some, and store some for later!

I found the recipe I used on the internet, and I chose it because it had the phrase "no peeling!" right in the title...

Once a month from May through September, LEC Program Manager Cora Uyigue has been visiting Generations Child and Memory Care to bring our Seed to Sauce Programming to their one-of-a-kind child care and memory care facility. "Working with Generations is unique because I get to work with preschoolers and patients in their memory care, making it a beautiful cross-generational experience that the kids and elders get to share together," Uyigue said.

Projects have ranged from planting seed and seedlings and tending to their on site garden, to making scavenger hunt nature bracelets (pictured in photo). According to Uyigue, working with the group from Generations has been a unique and rewarding experience. " I love watching the different ways each participant engages with the activities...

Upcoming Events and Programs


Saturday, November 2, 2024
9:00 am3:30 pm
MNSU Centennial Union Room 245
620 West S Rd
Mankato, MN 56001
US