Winona’s Hemp and Heritage Farm is a small family-owned farm in Osage, Minnesota and on Round Lake, in the White Earth Reservation. The farm grows heritage Indigenous vegetable varieties, specializing in corn, beans, squash, potatoes, ceremonial tobacco, and specialty crops for retail. Winona’s Hemp is also a fiber hemp and CBD hemp grower with local sales at a family-owned store, and a fiber hemp collaborative with Patagonia, which is producing a workbag from their hemp in the fall of 2023. 

Prospective Farm Leaders/Apprentices would expect integrated farming experiences, including horses and goats, and a way of life including traditional Anishinaabe cultural practices, an ecosystem full of manoomin or wild rice, mushrooms and wild harvests as well as a cabin on the lake. Multi skilled farm support would do best with computer and writing skills, a drivers license, and ability to work in diverse communities, as well as possible limited retail experience at farm market.

The farm serves the Anishinaabe village of Pine Point, with locally produced foods and flowers for the elders and a regional specialty food market, particularly focused on Owamni or the Sioux Chef and other Indigenous chefs. The farm is operated by Winona LaDuke and includes use of organic fertilizers from fish emulsion and horse farming, with Percherons and halflingers. As well, there is a small herd of milking goats, and chevre is presently being produced in collaboration with local Amish farmers.

In the upcoming summer, the farm will deepen the Indigenous farming work, and continue to grow out the fiber and CBD hemp crop varietals, in partnership with the University of Minnesota Cannabis research project. The farm will also deepen retail work and their online presence.