Earthen Path Organic Farm in Oak Center, Minnesota is Steven Schwen’s vision of building a strong connection to earth, of living within the circles of life and the cycles of nature. Schwen has a small piece of land, where he raised a generation of children and taught them to live with creativity and within their resources. He has chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys and has farmed with horses since the last 28 years. He wants to pass on not just the knowledge and skills of sustainable farming, but also what he and generations before him have built – barnyards, stables, workshops and pens.
Schwen believes that we, as a society, have been lured down the path of consumerism, and profit, at the expense of the environment and of our souls. “I think it’s important for people to understand that we are all connected to land and labor… And you know, we are helping shape people’s thinking but I think there has been a lot of resistance because of the comfort levels that material security has been providing people. People have been saying, yeah, I want to do that someday. But circumstances are becoming such that people will not have those choices anymore, and people realize that.”
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