Posts Tagged: farming

Sidehill Semantics

Posted January 14th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

For years, I thought the term “sidehill” was a figment of my late father’s ignorance. That’s not to say I didn’t know what he meant—we farmed the rolling hills of… Read more »

Ringing up a Healthier Food System

Posted April 9th, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

As we’ve said in this blog before, a conversation with Ken Meter of the Crossroads Resource Center is always an enlightening experience. His economic analyses of food and farming systems… Read more »

What Lies Beneath Doesn’t Lie

Posted March 5th, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

Spring flood predictions are in the air, and you can bet that within the next several weeks a whole lot of that wayward water will be taking Grade A Midwestern… Read more »

Farm-to-School: The Next Big Thing?

Posted February 25th, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

At the state meeting of the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota last Saturday, farmer Greg Reynolds opened his presentation on selling food to the Hopkins School District with a simple… Read more »