When the Star Tribune‘s “Dollars & Sense” columnist is writing about how to buy locally-produced meat, you know that the local food movement is more than a passing yuppie trend…. Read more »
Posts Categorized: Food and Sustainable Agriculture
A Forgotten Legislator and a Big Constitutional Amendment
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Fall Version The third installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. This week John… Read more »
A Freeze on Factory Farm Bullets
The USDA received a bit of a surprise this week when a letter with over 25,000 signatures was delivered to Secretary of Ag Tom Vilsack. The letter calls for a… Read more »
A Farmer’s Fight
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Fall Version The second installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. This week John… Read more »
Local Food and the Minnesota State Constitution
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Fall Version The first installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. “In California, in… Read more »
The 3 Ps of Farmland Conservation
While leading a group of natural resource professionals through one of his dairy pastures last Tuesday, Martin Jaus made it crystal clear he farms the land for more than a… Read more »
A Committed Relationship
It became a little clearer earlier this week why the Minnesota Department of Agriculture will tolerate no criticism of the corn herbicide atrazine. On Monday, atrazine’s prime manufacturer, Syngenta, opened… Read more »
CSP Deadline Sept. 30
Are you a farmer who’s utilizing conservation practices, or are seriously thinking of adopting such practices? Time’s-a-wasting. Farmers across the nation have until Sept. 30 to participate in the first… Read more »
Eat Fresh & Local in St. Croix Today, Friday
On a recent afternoon, Jeff Klemetsrud walked out of the kitchen at Savories Bistro in Stillwater holding one of the reasons why he and his wife/business partner Kristin buy as… Read more »
Beyond the Food Miles Pothole
Last Sunday’s Star Tribune Writer vs. Writer presentation on the local foods movement is a good example of why it’s so difficult to debate a complicated issue within the confines… Read more »