Posts By: Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project

While reading the late Paul Gruchow’s contribution to Our Neck of the Woods, I was reminded that becoming “native” to a place goes beyond simply being born there. It’s how… Read more »

Not to get too personal, but if you’re thinking of making a baby anytime soon, you might not want to wait until spring. That’s the conclusion one could draw from… Read more »

“I love to come up with great ideas and I sometimes think pixy dust is all you need to accomplish them,” Erin Yanish told me recently during a recent LSP… Read more »

When Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan announced the awarding of the first round of Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grants on Tuesday, it was no accident she chose… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »