The USDA announced this week that farmers have until June 11 to fill out an application for the latest round of Conservation Stewardship Program contracts. That’s a narrow window of… Read more »
Posts By: Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project
Local Meat Needs Local Processors
The USDA is drafting new meat testing regulations for small processors that could deal a serious blow to the local foods movement. If they go through, these regulations may force… Read more »
New CSA Drop Site Web Map
Just in time for the Seward Co-op CSA Fair this weekend, LSP has revamped its interactive map of drop sites for CSA farms that deliver to the Twin Cities. Click… Read more »
Monochemicals + Monocrops = Mucho Problems
The National Research Council’s announcement this week that “genetically engineered crops benefit many farmers” and is in general good for the environment came with a big fat caveat: overuse of… Read more »
Ringing up a Healthier Food System
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… Read more »
How to ‘Deal’ with NRCS, Drain a Wetland & Erode More Soil
While driving in southern Minnesota this week, I gazed upon acre-after-acre of black fields—a sign that despite a wet fall, a lot of intense tillage took place before the snow… Read more »
A Peek Behind the Curtain
It’s refreshing when people in power pull the curtain aside, drop the feel-good rhetoric momentarily and offer a glimpse at what they are really thinking. It’s also a little frightening…. Read more »
Environmental Review’s Latest Threat
It’s as predictable as the spring thaw. The Minnesota Legislature is yet again trying to weaken environmental review of large developments such as factory farms. This time around, the excuse… Read more »
What Lies Beneath Doesn’t Lie
Spring flood predictions are in the air, and you can bet that within the next several weeks a whole lot of that wayward water will be taking Grade A Midwestern… Read more »
Farm-to-School: The Next Big Thing?
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… Read more »