Three-time winner in 2018, 2021, and 2023, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) work has helped supply hunger relief organizations with produce, improve water quality and soil health through climate-smart practices, and more.
Learn about their winning projects — Root River Field to Stream Partnership, Local Emergency Assistance Farmer Fund, and Climate Smart Agriculture for Minnesota — on their winner pages.
Past Environmental Initiative Awards wins
- 2024: Rural Vitality
- 2023: Energy & Climate
- 2018: Rural Vitality
- 2015: Food Stewardship
The relationships built in the awarded projects continue, and evolve, and extend into new areas as individuals that were involved enter new and different professional spaces. The success that was originally recognized with an award has become a continually growing resource of people and experience.
About the 30 Years of Impact Category
After celebrating 30 years in 2024, the 2025 Awards is all about our impact—a reflection on the history of the program and looking towards the future.