Upcoming Events
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 Volunteer Day - November
While the gardens sleep the winter months away, LEC is still going strong!
Join us for Winter Volunteer Days as we reconnect to the Earth and with each other! Planned activities include flower seed cleaning and packaging, solstice themed crafts, and even making pressed flower bookmarks!
Specific activities/tasks will be announced closer to actual volunteer day.
Everyone is Welcome! ~ All ages are welcome to attend these volunteer days, but minors need to have a responsible adult present.
No Experience Needed!
Bring a Friend and Join the Fun!
Preregistration not Required but Appreciated!
Winter Volunteer Day - December
While the gardens sleep the winter months away, LEC is still going strong!
Join us for Winter Volunteer Days as we reconnect to the Earth and with each other! Planned activities include flower seed cleaning and packaging, solstice themed crafts, and even making pressed flower bookmarks!
Specific activities/tasks will be announced closer to actual volunteer day.
Everyone is Welcome! ~ All ages are welcome to attend these volunteer days, but minors need to have a responsible adult present.
No Experience Needed!
Bring a Friend and Join the Fun!
Preregistration not Required but Appreciated!
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...
Winter Volunteer Day - January
While the gardens sleep the winter months away, LEC is still going strong!
Join us for Winter Volunteer Days as we reconnect to the Earth and with each other! Planned activities include flower seed cleaning and packaging, solstice themed crafts, and even making pressed flower bookmarks!
Specific activities/tasks will be announced closer to actual volunteer day.
Everyone is Welcome! ~ All ages are welcome to attend these volunteer days, but minors need to have a responsible adult present.
No Experience Needed!
Bring a Friend and Join the Fun!
Preregistration not Required but Appreciated!
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
Winter Volunteer Day - February
While the gardens sleep the winter months away, LEC is still going strong!
Join us for Winter Volunteer Days as we reconnect to the Earth and with each other! Planned activities include flower seed cleaning and packaging, solstice themed crafts, and even making pressed flower bookmarks!
Specific activities/tasks will be announced closer to actual volunteer day.
Everyone is Welcome! ~ All ages are welcome to attend these volunteer days, but minors need to have a responsible adult present.
No Experience Needed!
Bring a Friend and Join the Fun!
Preregistration not Required but Appreciated!
Winter Volunteer Day - March
While the gardens sleep the winter months away, LEC is still going strong!
Join us for Winter Volunteer Days as we reconnect to the Earth and with each other! Planned activities include flower seed cleaning and packaging, solstice themed crafts, and even making pressed flower bookmarks!
Specific activities/tasks will be announced closer to actual volunteer day.
Everyone is Welcome! ~ All ages are welcome to attend these volunteer days, but minors need to have a responsible adult present.
No Experience Needed!
Bring a Friend and Join the Fun!
Preregistration not Required but Appreciated!
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
Exactly 6 months to the day after being at Jefferson Elementary to start seeds with every K-5 student April 2nd, LEC's Seed to Sauce program was back on the Jefferson campus on October 2nd to make salsa with every K-5 student from the peppers and tomatoes they started!
"We make a very basic recipe," said LEC Youth Education & Program Manager Maisie Johnson, "it was fun to hear what the kids would add if they made it again at home. We heard everything from corn, to the spiciest pepper in the world, to chicken nuggets..."
Even though fall is still in full swing, we are already thinking ahead and planning for post-garden season, when we will be missing our community of summer friends and volunteers.
Last year, to keep our community connected during the "off season," LEC began monthly Winter Volunteer Days. They were such a success we are making them an annual thing.
Dates have been set, and while specific activities will be announced closer to each actual date...
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...
