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COME GROW WITH US!! Donations for the project can be mailed to: Farm Friends Barn, PO Box 675, Beck
Young people are becoming more removed from where their food originates. School-age children do not have a proficient understanding of how the food system works and the types of agricultural commodities raised in the local area. In addition, young people need to be educated on healthy food choices, many of these foods being grown locally. The Farm Friends Barn is being built to provide The Little Farm Hands Project to our youth and other agriculture related projects for all! This building will also be available for meetings, birthdays and other events. In collaboration with local agricultural and conservation organizations, we would like to build/create a Little Farm Hands display for the Sherburne County Fair. “Little Farm Hands at the Fair” will be an agricultural education exhibit for kids. Children (ages 3-10) become farm hands at this hands-on exhibit as they experience the agricultural process beginning at the farm and ending at the market. Little Farm Hands and their families get their work aprons and fire up their imaginations to help with farm chores, collect goods to sell at the farmer’s market, and then spend their “earnings” at the grocery store. This mock ag adventure will consist of a series of livestock barns, a grain bin, a tractor dealer, garden plots, an apple orchard, and a farmer’s market. The experience directs and explains what happens to food from a starting point to the last step in the process at the grocery store. The finished set and materials could be portable and other agricultural groups could lend it to promote agriculture in their area. Each station provides hands-on tasks related to planning crops and the tending of animals. For example, at the chicken coop, the farm hands feed the chickens the grain they “harvested” and then collect the eggs. At the dairy barn children milk a cow and at the tractor shed they drive peddle tractors with wagons to haul the hay for the animals. After the children have gone through each of the miniature barns and collected their products, they “sell” them a the farmer’s market for “cash” to be used at the retail grocery store where they have the opportunity to “buy” their finished product such as apples, milk, cereal, jerky, soy nuts, fruit and vegetables. Additional stations will address agricultural related service concerns; such as ground water quality and quantity, soil erosion, etc.
11/03/2026
Thank you to our community for continuing to be diligent about making sure the cardboard is flattened and garbage is NOT thrown in the dumpster. We still have a few people that need to better at what is being thrown in the dumpster but as a community we are all doing great. A special thank you to Farm Friends Barn Volunteer Fred Graning for managing this project.
We extend our sincerest gratitude to the Becker American Legion and SAL for conducting a flag-raising ceremony in honor of our barn's inaugural flag, and to those who attended. Vietnam Veteran Larry Woolhouse proudly raised our flag. We are deeply appreciative of this gesture on the 4th of July, celebrating 250 years. Happy 4th of July.
07/03/2026
Tomorrow 7:30am at the Farm Friends Barn!
06/22/2026
The Garden Club, that was offered through Becker Community Education, will be held at the Barn thru July, providing children aged 7-9 with hands-on agricultural experiences and activities. The club tends to its own garden area and recently learned about pollinators by planting flowers and observing the monarch butterfly's life cycle. Each week brings new learning experiences, and the children greatly benefit from the volunteers' dedication. Farm Friends Barn
06/09/2026
We will be there tomorrow!
We are so excited to see you at tomorrow's STory STroll Kickoff at the Sherburne History Center! We will be ready to greet you at 10:00 am with many wonderful friends from Tiny School of Art, Farm Friends Barn, Becker Library, Sherburne Soil & Water Conservation District, and more! Music and ice cream begins at noon!
06/08/2026
Thank you to Joel Gilyard and his son Austin for setting a great example on how the cardboard recycling Program works best! Thank you from all of us at the Farm Friends Barn!
An issue arose while filling our 2nd dumpster with cardboard today as trash was found inside.. However, thanks to camera footage- which we advertised on the flyers and posts, the individual responsible has been identified and will pay fines from the state. We are very thankful for the 99.9% of Sherburne County residents who respect and appreciate this free service, made possible by VEIT, Vonco II and a Sherburne County SCORE Grant and we hope this announcement will prevent similar incidents going forward.
06/01/2026
Important Notice to Residents of Becker, Becker Township, and Sherburne County. The Farm Friends Barn, a local non-profit organization, is reviving the cardboard recycling program on a trial basis until January 31st, 2027. The program's effectiveness relies on responsible use and misuse may lead to termination. Additional information can be found in the enclosed flyer.
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