Kudos to Brian for being in Minnesota 2020’s latest post, Community Supported Agriculture is Smart Policy – as well as all that Land Stewardship Project is doing to connect eaters to… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Food and Sustainable Agriculture
Putting Ag to Work in the Bioeconomy
Industrial agriculture has made farming into a bit of a one-trick pony. Here in the Midwest, the majority of cropland produces monocultures of corn and soybeans, and not much else…. Read more »
Beer
I’ve been thinking about beer much more than usual the last few months.
A Dirty Story
Years ago I happened upon a 1953 pamphlet called Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years. Written by renowned soil expert Walter Lowdermilk, it describes how care of the soil… Read more »
Xtreme Farming
The dog days of summer are in full cry, nipping at the sweaty heels of a crabby populance. It’s good to remember at times like this that the Upper Midwest… Read more »
More on the MPCA whistleblower
The Star Tribune’s Dan Browning and Tom Meersman have dug deeper into the whisteblower lawsuit filed last week against the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). It appears that the Department of Ag asked… Read more »
Another PCA whistleblower suit
Naively, I kind of thought these days were behind us…
Farms & Feathers
Today’s news that 20 common birds are in serious trouble because of habitat destruction highlights the key role working farmland can play in helping out our avian friends, particularly grassland… Read more »
Wendell Berry in St. Paul June 29
It’s appropriate that author/farmer Wendell Berry will be in St. Paul June 29 for a special “Keeping the Land and People Together” public LSP celebration. After all, 2007 is the… Read more »
A Mixed Session for Sustainable Ag, Family Farms
How did initiatives that benefit sustainable agriculture, family farms and rural communities fare in the 2007 Legislature? Well, it began on a positive note when in February the Agriculture, Rural… Read more »