Posts Categorized: Food and Sustainable Agriculture

Kent Solberg was born, as he puts it, “With a heart for the land.” And in the most recent LSP podcast (episode 57), the central Minnesota farmer wears his heart… Read more »

A few years ago Hakon and Karen Torjesen went looking for someone to farm some of their 260 acres. The fact that they went looking for a farmer, and not… Read more »

In July, I reported on the possibilities and problems associated with making diverse native prairie systems part of our bioenergy mix on Midwestern farms. Two weeks ago, I had a… Read more »

On an overcast fall day, I got a tour of the Meat Center of Appleton (population: 2,871) in the heart of western Minnesota’s wild goose and domestic corn country. If… Read more »

Earlier this week I received in the mail a nice, dense example of tax money put to good use: the 2008 edition of the Greenbook. It’s written for farmers, but… Read more »

Statistic of the day: every third bite of food is the direct or indirect result of the work of pollinators like bees. That’s why so many people are worked up… Read more »

I just returned from Iowa and my ears are still ringing from the gut-crunching drone of low-flying airplanes—the kind that seem to be all engine and spray nozzles. About a… Read more »

Sometimes it seems like the owner of the Café Wren has a better idea of what’s going on in John Adams’ vegetable plots than he does. “I think she has… Read more »

Sometimes it seems like the owner of the Café Wren has a better idea of what’s going on in John Adams’ vegetable plots than he does. “I think she has… Read more »