Upcoming Events
Volunteer Apple Picking
Come spend some time at the beautiful orchard on Good Counsel Hill picking apples for donation to your community!
All apples will be donated to Community Partners like ECHO Food Shelf, Holy Grounds, and MY Place, or used to make cider at LEC’s upcoming Community Farm Fall Fest.
No Experience Necessary! All Are Welcome!
All materials will be provided!
We highly recommend that you bring water and wear close toed shoes. Once the apples start falling to the ground, the bees get more active in the area, and close toed shoes help protect you from bee stings.
PLEASE NOTE: These events are NOT for personal apple picking. The Good Counsel Orchards are private property and volunteers are welcome ONLY at times listed above.
September BEC Community Farm Volunteer Day
You are invited to join us at the Community Farm from 5 -7 pm for an evening of volunteering! Many hands make light work, we will be doing seasonal farm maintenance tasks such as, planting, watering, weeding, harvesting, and more!
***BONUS***
Dinner provided by LEC!
No experience necessary! Everyone is Welcome!
Registration is not required but appreciated for meal planning.
Volunteer Apple Picking
Come spend some time at the beautiful orchard on Good Counsel Hill picking apples for donation to your community!
All apples will be donated to Community Partners like ECHO Food Shelf, Holy Grounds, and MY Place, or used to make cider at LEC’s upcoming Community Farm Fall Fest.
No Experience Necessary! All Are Welcome!
All materials will be provided!
We highly recommend that you bring water and wear close toed shoes. Once the apples start falling to the ground, the bees get more active in the area, and close toed shoes help protect you from bee stings.
PLEASE NOTE: These events are NOT for personal apple picking. The Good Counsel Orchards are private property and volunteers are welcome ONLY at times listed above.
Volunteer Apple Picking
Come spend some time at the beautiful orchard on Good Counsel Hill picking apples for donation to your community!
All apples will be donated to Community Partners like ECHO Food Shelf, Holy Grounds, and MY Place, or used to make cider at LEC’s upcoming Community Farm Fall Fest.
No Experience Necessary! All Are Welcome!
All materials will be provided!
We highly recommend that you bring water and wear close toed shoes. Once the apples start falling to the ground, the bees get more active in the area, and close toed shoes help protect you from bee stings.
PLEASE NOTE: These events are NOT for personal apple picking. The Good Counsel Orchards are private property and volunteers are welcome ONLY at times listed above.
Volunteer Apple Picking
Come spend some time at the beautiful orchard on Good Counsel Hill picking apples for donation to your community!
All apples will be donated to Community Partners like ECHO Food Shelf, Holy Grounds, and MY Place, or used to make cider at LEC’s upcoming Community Farm Fall Fest.
No Experience Necessary! All Are Welcome!
All materials will be provided!
We highly recommend that you bring water and wear close toed shoes. Once the apples start falling to the ground, the bees get more active in the area, and close toed shoes help protect you from bee stings.
PLEASE NOTE: These events are NOT for personal apple picking. The Good Counsel Orchards are private property and volunteers are welcome ONLY at times listed above.
Fall Farm Fest
Mark your Calendars Now!!
Detailed Information to Follow!!
LEC's beloved annual Fall Fest is back at the Blue Earth County Community Farm! Full details posted soon, but expect fall activities including making cider with our cider press, fall-themed crafts, outdoor games, tours of the farm, and light refreshments!
Event is Free
and
Everyone is Welcome!!
Canning 101 v2.0
**This class has reached capacity**
Please check our January or March Canning 101 workshops via links below for availability.
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Too many tomatoes?!? Want to preserve your pickles?!?
Join LEC Farm Manager and owner of Wiimąnį Homestead SkyAnne Walker to learn how to preserve your garden harvest by canning.
Learn the basics, from what equipment you'll need to the importance of food safety.
Want to can but don't have the equipment? LEC has you covered! We have all sorts of canning equipment available for checkout from our lending library for free!
Class Size is limited, so register today!
Class is offered on our tiered pricing scale:
$45 - Benefactor: purchase your ticket and sponsor 2 scholarship tickets
$22 - Sustainer: purchase your ticket and sponsor a reduced/student ticket
$15 - General Admission: base class price
$7 - Reduced/Student Admission: reduced pricing for students and attendees needing a reduced rate
To request a scholarship ticket please email info@livingearthcentermn.org
Winter Solstice Celebration
Save the Date for LEC's Winter Solstice Celebration!
Mark your calendar today before it gets full (as happens in December) for a time of quiet rest and reflection during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.
Join your LEC Community as we celebrate the darkness and prepare to welcome back the light!
This annual celebration features seasonal reflection, bonfire, light refreshments, and optional snowshoe nature hike.
More details to follow...
Canning 101 v3.0
By popular demand we have added more sessions of our Canning 101 workshop!!
If this event is full, check our March Canning 101 workshop for availability.
Too many tomatoes?!? Want to preserve your pickles?!?
Join LEC Farm Manager and owner of Wiimąnį Homestead SkyAnne Walker to learn how to preserve your garden harvest by canning.
Learn the basics, from what equipment you'll need to the importance of food safety.
Want to can but don't have the equipment? LEC has you covered! We have all sorts of canning equipment available for checkout from our lending library for free!
Class Size is limited, so register today!
Class is offered on our tiered pricing scale:
$45 - Benefactor: purchase your ticket and sponsor 2 scholarship tickets
$22 - Sustainer: purchase your ticket and sponsor a reduced/student ticket
$15 - General Admission: base class price
$7 - Reduced/Student Admission: reduced pricing for students and attendees needing a reduced rate
To request a scholarship ticket please email info@livingearthcentermn.org
Canning 101 v4.0
By popular demand we have added more sessions of our Canning 101 workshop!!
Too many tomatoes?!? Want to preserve your pickles?!?
Join LEC Farm Manager and owner of Wiimąnį Homestead SkyAnne Walker to learn how to preserve your garden harvest by canning.
Learn the basics, from what equipment you'll need to the importance of food safety.
Want to can but don't have the equipment? LEC has you covered! We have all sorts of canning equipment available for checkout from our lending library for free!
Class Size is limited, so register today!
Class is offered on our tiered pricing scale:
$45 - Benefactor: purchase your ticket and sponsor 2 scholarship tickets
$22 - Sustainer: purchase your ticket and sponsor a reduced/student ticket
$15 - General Admission: base class price
$7 - Reduced/Student Admission: reduced pricing for students and attendees needing a reduced rate
To request a scholarship ticket please email info@livingearthcentermn.org
LEC News and Updates
Friends of the Living Earth,
For twenty years, the Earth Conference has been a gathering place — a time each year when this community came together to learn, connect, and imagine a healthier future for each other and for the land we share. Two decades of shared meals, hard conversations, new friendships, and small seeds that grew into real change. We are so grateful for every one of you who showed up, year after year, to make it what it was — and especially grateful to the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who began this tradition so many years ago.
We're writing to share that this year, Living Earth Center and the Conference Planning Committee have made the difficult decision not to continue the Earth Conference within Living Earth Center's programming...
For the August Community Gardener Potluck, Garden Manager Mal issued a challenge: bring your Best Fresh-from-the-Garden Summer Salad!
The Gardeners did not disappoint! Pictured here is everyone who brought a salad to share!
Thanks to Community Gardener Julia for sharing the Summer Salad "recipe" she brought to the August Community Garden Potluck...
At LEC we strive to give the people what they want - and right now, THE PEOPLE WANT TO CAN!!
We have a Canning 101 scheduled for Aug 29th which has reached capacity. We started a waiting list, and went to work to find another date that would work for a second session. By the time that date was set in November the waiting list was overflowing with enough people to fill the second class and then some!
So SkyAnne has worked to schedule not only a 3rd session (in January) but also a 4th session (in March)!!
Check our Event Calendar for the full listing of Canning 101 opportunities. (Scholarships are available for all LEC workshops.)
And a huge thank you to both Sky (who's teaching the workshops) and Centenary UMC (who is graciously letting us use their kitchen space to run the workshops) for being so flexible and willing to make sure that anyone and everyone who wants to learn to can, CAN!
