Posts Categorized: Food and Sustainable Agriculture

Last Sunday’s Star Tribune Writer vs. Writer presentation on the local foods movement is a good example of why it’s so difficult to debate a complicated issue within the confines… Read more »

For 18 years Curt and Bertha Lou Tvedt walked a dangerous tightrope: working a farm with no health insurance coverage. “It’s scary,” Curt told me recently. “It kind of sits… Read more »

It’s not often we hear people standing up for stover—the stalks, shucks, etc., left in the field after corn is harvested. After all, it’s unapologetically called “trash” by  farm tillage… Read more »

The revamped Conservation Stewardship Program is officially off to the races. The USDA announced yesterday that it will now accept applications from farmers between Aug. 10 and Sept. 30 for… Read more »

I talked to a  southern Minnesota crop farmer last night who was pretty upset over the gutting  MDA’s sustainable ag program received at the hands of the Legislature and the… Read more »

The other evening I walked a western Minnesota farm that had a certain “feel” to it. LSP podcast episodes 66 and 67 provide a sense of how we can help… Read more »

As the current issues of the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer and Land Stewardship Letter make clear, pollinators are the kinds of keystone critters we all can play a role in helping—or… Read more »

I once served on a land grant college committee that was trying to figure out ways to develop a marketing manual for farmers involved in alternative production practices such as… Read more »

The movie Food, Inc. has been getting a lot of reviews since it was released a few weeks ago. Many critics like what the movie has to say about the… Read more »

If you have ambitions of launching a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm anytime soon, or even if you’ve already started one and need some guidance now that the reality of… Read more »