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Our Mission: To foster a local food community and promote a culture of stewardship by cultivating farmer-consumer relationships, promoting the enjoyment of healthful food, increasing food security through diversity, and enhancing overall rural sustainability. |
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Native seed: grasses and wildflowers and assorted crafts About Us Shoestring Acres is a family enterprise consisting of Alison and Kristin Krohn along with husbands Carey and Rob. Alison focuses on prairie restoration and seed production. Kristin creates and repairs books. She also explores needle arts, felting, and paper crafts. Browse through our Products for Sale Practices (our standards for raising or making our products) Technically speaking our seed is "local ecotype" collected within 25 miles of the Antelope County farm. We have both wild-collected and first generation production plots (G1). The wild-collected is sustainably harvested, meaning we collect no more than 50% of the seed from a local population. These collection sites are primarily on the farm: 160 acre sandhills hay meadow and a 35 acre mixed-grass pasture. We also collect from local roadside remnants, and some native pivot corners. In the future we may buy bulk seed from other local enthusiasts. The production plots are sown in bands like strip-cropping because the slope we seeded is highly erodible. We mostly weed and harvest by hand except for some perennial weeds that are spot-sprayed with the safest herbicide available. We can identify the location source of all seed. Additional Information |