Farm nearly gone, name lives on: Atina Diffley, icon of Minnesota organic farming, to speak at Watson co-op gathering
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The myth of Feeding the World exposed in new video
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IATP has long recognized that many of the drivers of the destructive industrial food system are not based on a sound rationale, but instead on a series of corporate marketing myths. IATP Food and Community Fellow Raj Patel, for example, has recently been taking on the false assumptions that contributed to the Green Revolution and the revitalized interest in a new Green Revolution. Continue Reading
Moving ahead on food justice
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The U.S food system has never been just, fair or healthy. This is a shocking statement to some, but to the vast majority of people of color and tribal nations in the United States this has always been a reality. This sentiment was the thread connecting many of the conversations throughout all three days of IATP’s Food + Justice = Democracy conference last month in Minneapolis. Continue Reading
Relationship building at the heart of Community Supported Agriculture
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My weekly CSA e-newsletter included an evaluation request. It’s possibly the most important item in this week’s produce delivery because it puts the farmer-shareholder relationship squarely in the limelight. Continue Reading
A home in the hills: The animals of LoveTree Farmstead
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LoveTree Farmstead, owned by Dave and Mary Falk, is famous for it’s raw milk, cave-aged cheese; a tradition at the St. Paul Farmers’ Market. Located in the lush woodland hills of northern Wisconsin, the Falk farmstead makes artisan cheese with milk from their sheep and cattle. Market host Emily Noble traveled up north to see these happy, milk-giving grazers and the guardian dogs that protect them from wolves, coyotes and bears.
John Barleycorn, exposed: Could sequencing of barley genome mean climate change-proof beer?
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Barley made the news yesterday, in part thanks to a Minnesota scientist. Continue Reading
World Food Day: Keep farmers on the land
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World Food Day is an event perhaps best known to those already advocating to end hunger in their own countries and around the globe. Continue Reading
Mhonpaj’s Garden: A family-owned, certified organic vegetable farm
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SPNN’s Market program visits Mhonpaj’s Garden near Stillwater, MN, the first Hmong farm operation in Minnesota to be certified Organic. As the growing season comes to an end, host Xia Yang talks to Master Gardener May Lee about her methods for producing organic vegetables. Her daughter Mhonpaj tells us why she went organic and why farming the land is so important to their family. Continue Reading
The hungry insurgent: Fall planting tips and upcoming food and gardening events
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This month has been an amazing one for gleaning. My neighbors have offered me so many apples, grapes, various veggies and even eggs, that I seem to have neglected my own gardens.