Nearly 200 Farm Bureau members from across the state attended the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) LEAP Conference led by the MFBF Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Committee and MFBF Promotion & Education (P&E) Committee. This was held January 25-26 at the Radisson Blu in Bloomington.

During the conference, attendees conducted a service project for Loaves and Fishes Farm for All project. Loaves and Fishes is a Minnesota- based nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve free, nutritious meals to people in need at locations where the need is greatest, and Farm for All is a farm-to-table approach to serving people in need.

A variety of gardening tools and supplies were donated by attendees to support this effort. In addition, through the Minnesota Farm Bureau Foundation, those attending raised $1,860 for gardening tools and supplies.