The end of January may not be the best time to whine about the unusually cool summers we’ve been experiencing in these parts (“Seventy degrees in August? I’m freezing!”). But… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Food and Sustainable Agriculture
MDA’S Long-Lost Atrazine Review is Out
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture released its long-awaited multi-agency review of the herbicide atrazine just after lunch today. No headline-making news here: “While the review finds that atrazine regulations protect… Read more »
Atrazine: Chemicals, Clients & Closed Doors
“Farmers like me are being put on the front line when it comes to the health risks of a chemical like atrazine,” says southwest Minnesota farmer Paul Sobocinski in a… Read more »
Biotech: Gagging on its Bragging
It hasn’t been a good year for genetically modified crops. Or rather, it hasn’t been a good year for those who promote these crops as the best thing to happen… Read more »
A Rural View of Local Food
When the 2009 summary for the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll popped up in my e-mail box yesterday, the first thing that struck me was this: a whole lot… Read more »
Putting Pasture out to Pasture
The latest U.S. Census of Agriculture shows that pastured land took a horrific hit between 2002 and 2007 in terms of the amount of landscape it covers. That means a… Read more »
Eating Native to this Place
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 »
Atrazine, Making Babies & Timing
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 »
From Pixy Dust to Permanence
“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 »
State Supreme Court Ruling Bodes Well for Locally Grown Food
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Fall Version In the final installment in a series about Minnesota’s role in the local food movement, John continues his journey through the history… Read more »