Posts By: Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project

Next week Ken Meter will be in western Minnesota and eastern South Dakota, telling the story of how feeding the raw commodity maw has drained our Main Streets of their… Read more »

Now that the 2008 Farm Bill is officially law, it’s important to make sure all that work sustainable ag groups like LSP put into some of the legislation’s key components… Read more »

On a sunny (remember sun?) spring afternoon a few weeks ago, Karola and Rick Dalen were giving me a tour of their Northern Harvest Farm near the northeast Minnesota community… Read more »

One night last August, Art and Jean Thicke’s hilltop farm in southeast Minnesota was pounded by 15 inches of rain. This was the same storm that dumped record amounts of… Read more »

The just-concluded session of the Minnesota Legislature produced benefits for family livestock farmers, while attacks on local control were stymied once again. The bad news is that an exciting program… Read more »

With the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 finally wrapping up, the Land Stewardship Project has developed a report card on where the legislation finally landed in terms of… Read more »

I’m not sure what’s happening. Maybe the cold, wet spring whet our appetites for fresh vegetables to an extraordinary degree. Or maybe more people are getting the word on the… Read more »

As food riots in places like Haiti and Egypt are reminding us, there are many, many hungry people in the world. Supporters of industrialized agriculture have argued for years that… Read more »

Early this morning—during those vampire hours between bar close and breakfast—members of the Congressional Farm Bill conference committee agreed on a 2008 Farm Bill. While a final price tag and… Read more »