local foods

Main Street Vs. Eat Street

April 15, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
Ben Hewitt, big food, CSA, food contamination, food industry, industrial food, Land Stewardship Project, local foods, Michael Moss, obesity epidemic, Salt Sugar Fat, The Town That Food Saved

I’m not sure I would recommend this, but I recently read two books back-to-back that represent the “how” extremes of today’s food system. I started out with The Town That Food Saved:…
2011 CSA Farm Directory

February 25, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
community food systems, Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, local foods, LSP CSA Directory, regional foods

The 2011 directory of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms serving the Twin Cities, outstate Minnesota and western Wisconsin is now on LSP’s website. Yes, someday the snow will melt, and green things…
Profits from Perennials

September 28, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water
biodiversity, Chippewa 10%, grass, grazing, Gulf dead zone, local foods, Minnesota River, Mississippi River, perennial farming systems, perennials, runoff, sediment, sustainabkle agriculture, Troubled Waters, working lands conservation

One bright spot in the dust-up over the showing of the film Troubled Waters is that it highlights an important water quality issue: we need more perennial plant cover on the land…