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Local Food

Farmer's markets, Community Supported Agriculture, boulevard gardens, sustainable agriculture, school lunches - we've got it all in Minnesota. The Twin Cities Daily Planet and our media partners report extensively on food issues. Find the collected articles here.

 

 

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Summit Hill neighbors plan community garden at Linwood Park

By Staff, Summit Hill Association

The prospect of a Summit Hill Community Garden is alive and well! Fourteen neighbors interested in building a community garden at Linwood Park (east of the tennis courts) met Tuesday February 28th at the Linwood Community Center to develop plans and determine next steps to make the project a reality.MORE »

Summit Hill Plant Exchange June 9 offers a great way to find local, hardy plants

By Ann Nerland, Summit Hill Association

“I always look for local plant exchanges, as that’s where I get healthy plants that thrive in this area,” said one avid gardener at last year’s plant exchange.

The Plant Exchange is in its fourth year in the Summit Hill neighborhood, and has offered residents a variety of herbs, annuals, bulbs and perennials to choose from.MORE »

Help make urban ag a vibrant part of our community next week

By Anna Cioffi, Loon Commons

If implemented correctly, the proposed city zoning code text amendments recommended by the Urban Agriculture Policy Plan for Minneapolis could play a key role in supporting urban farms, community gardens, farmers’ markets, farm stands and other elements of MORE »

Three Twin Cities urban farms to merge

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Three urban farms in Uptown, Phillips and Frogtown are merging to create a larger farm called Stone's Throw Urban Farms.MORE »

From farm to distributor to table: The forgotten middleman in Twin Cities’ local food market

By Alleen Brown, TC Daily Planet

You may have tried Brian and Leslie Axdahl’s Stillwater-grown vegetables. If you bought sweet corn or green beans at Byerly’s or tried Crave restaurant’s creamed corn or ordered the sesame quinoa and green bean salad at Birchwood Café, there’s a good chance the Axdahls had a hand in growing your dinner.MORE »

North End Urban Farm: Challenges range from marketing to marauding deer

By Loren Green, TC Daily Planet

Revitalization doesn’t always mean pristine condos and an animated business district.  In the case of North End Urban Farm in St. Paul, the best opportunity to improve the neighborhood came with a plow.MORE »

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Meet with GROWS this weekend at the Market

By Cynthia Frost, TC Daily Planet

Have you noticed painted doors popping up in neighbors’ yards and wondered what that’s all about?  Perhaps you’ve seen public art projects sprouting up throughout the neighborhood, or heard about Millie’s Peace Garden.  If you want to meet the folks behind these and many other projects, join Corcoran GROWS for an event this Saturday morning.MORE »

Mark Schultz: "Food for people instead of corn for Cargill"

By Lisa Peterson-de la Cueva, TC Daily Planet

Mark Schultz had been organizing around corporate accountability on the East Coast when he moved to Minnesota in the late 1980s and saw an ad in the paper that said something like: “Are you concerned about corporate absentee landlords?MORE »

Twin Cities community gardens: A study in variety

By Alleen Brown, TC Daily Planet

Some garden in the name of community building. Others do it for beauty’s sake. And then there are those who just like a good tomato. The Twin Cities are full of community gardeners.MORE »

Chickens on the move in Minneapolis

By Rebekah Rentzel, TC Daily Planet

The chickens of Seward are on the move. Growing Lots, an urban farm located at 24th Street and Snelling Avenue alongside the Hiawatha Light Rail, introduced a fair flock of 49 birds this past May.MORE »

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