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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Youth Farm and Market Project puts down new roots in St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood

By Amber Collett, TC Daily Planet

Hawthorne Youth Farm and Market Project in North Minneapolis

In 1995, the Youth Farm and Market Project (YFMP) started on a small plot of land in the Lyndale neighborhood in south Minneapolis.

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Minneapolis pilot program lends some dirt to community gardening

By Lisa Gonzalez, TC Daily Planet

Soo Line community garden (Photo by Nate Chervek, 2008, Creative Commons)

Community gardening offers city dwellers an outlet for the desire to create and consume  healthy food, knowledge about what it takes to make that food, and the chance for neighbors to get acqu

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Bike to Mississippi Market in St. Paul? Save five percent on groceries!

By Amber Collett, TC Daily Planet

Manager Kari Binning outside Mississippi Market at Selby and Dale, St. Paul. (Photos by Amber Collett)

On June 1, the Mississippi Market kicked off summer by becoming the first Minnesota business to offer a Bicycle Benefits discount to shoppers.

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Food support expands access to Minnesota farmers' markets

By Sharon Rolenc, Minnesota News Connection

ST. PAUL, Minn. - As many farmers' markets across the state open for the season this weekend, more Minnesota families will have access to fresh, locally grown food.

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Seeds, green beans and farmers markets mark spring in Minneapolis, St. Paul

By Cynthia Frost, TC Daily Planet

Just when you think spring will never come, gardening groups and farmers markets start up, and perhaps give us hope to think that we may have finally seen the last snow flakes for the season.&nbs

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St. Paul area plant sales abound in May

By D.J. Alexander, Park Bugle

If the mom in your life enjoys gardening, you're sure to find a special gift at the Friends School Plant Sale Mother's Day Weekend, May 6-8.

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Digging into urban farming at the University of Minnesota

By Dusty Hinz and Lydia Howell, TC Daily Planet

Photo from Growing Power website

Cities of the future may include widespread urban farming, beekeeping and a locally-grown fish industry, according to speakers at an April 19 forum on urban agriculture at the University of Minn

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Break Ground at Milly’s Peace Garden

By Cynthia Frost, Neighborhood Notes

Community gardeners get to work this Saturday preparing the ground for the first season of Milly's Peace Garden.  Organizers decided to arrange the lot at 38th Street E and 21s

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Gardening, gleaning, and getting started

By Alexander Holston, TC Daily Planet

Photo collage by Towle Neu for Gardening Matters

 

With spring sprung—albeit a little later than anticipated—dreams of this year's vegetables have been stalking the sleep of gardeners citywide. Kicking off the growing season for many was Gardening Matters 7th annual Community Gardens Resource Fair, held on April 2. The day's main focus was the series of panels and workshops to encourage and promote community and home gardeners to take matters into their own hands, ranging from fruit tree orchard planning, to soil mitigation, to home mushroom cultivation.

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Local Food Resource Hub launched in Minneapolis

By Kate Garsombke, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Steven Depolo, published under Creative Commons license.

Minneapolis residents can get a deal on seeds and seedlings, while networking with fellow gardeners, through an initiative that aims to increase the amount of food being grown in the city.

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