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Hurdles for beginning farmers don t end with access to land A panel of beginning farmers shared their stories of accessing land and other unique challenges affecting farming in metro areas in a recent session part of the Sustainable Farming Association 2021 annual conference. 7:00 am, Feb. 13, 2021 × Mallina Xiong tends to plants in July 2020 on her parcel of land that is part of the 155-acre HAFA farm. (Noah Fish / Agweek) A parking lot is not the first place that comes to mind for a location of a farm. But that s the reality for Taya Schulte and Seamus Fitzgerald, who operate Growing Lots Urban Farm on two converted parking lots in the Seward neighborhood of south Minneapolis. The farm grows vegetables to sell at farmers markets, community-supported agriculture ventures (or CSAs) and wholesale. ....