food

Ringing up a Healthier Food System

April 9, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
Crossroads Resource Center, economics, farming, food, Health, Ken Meter, LSP

As we’ve said in this blog before, a conversation with Ken Meter of the Crossroads Resource Center is always an enlightening experience. His economic analyses of food and farming systems here in…
Farm-to-School: The Next Big Thing?

February 26, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
farm-to-school, farming, food, local food, lunch, organic, school

At the state meeting of the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota last Saturday, farmer Greg Reynolds opened his presentation on selling food to the Hopkins School District with a simple assessment: “I…