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In mid-June, beginning farmer and former IATP staff member Dayna Burtness was delivering her farm’s vegetables to clients in Minneapolis when she got the call: the rain that had started at mid-day Continue Reading
It’s a bit after 9 pm, and I’m sitting in a 19ft camper parked just 300 feet from the house. It’s cosy and quiet, a terrific refuge from the toxic fumes that are a unfortunate by-product of the sealant applied to our cement floors. (We tried using a eco-friendly product last year, but it wore thru in under 12 months. I’m sure they’ll develop better products over time.)
Jim Riddle is the Organic Outreach Coordinator for UMN – Southwest Research and Outreach Center. He met with Market host Jill Jones to answer the question: “What does it mean when produce and meat products are labeled organic?”
You’ve surely heard about the worst drought in a generation that is devastating farmers throughout the Midwest and Great Plains. Many of us may have brown lawns and suffering gardens, but besides these inconveniences, how does the drought impact the rest of us who are not farming? Here’s a brief rundown.
Ken Meter travels the country studying local farm and food economies. He met us at the new satellite Capitol Market to discuss the importance of locally grown food.
The summer of 2012 may well be remembered as the season urban farming blossomed in St. Paul and its surrounding communities.
This being an election year, simplistic answers and proposed fixes for all that ails us are offered daily for real and imagined problems.
Some, like the voter ID Constitutional amendment in Minnesota, are pure distractions to cure a problem that doesn’t exist but will serve a political strategy of denying the elderly and minorities access to the polls.
Farmers throughout the country are experiencing one of the worst droughts in 50 years. It’s times like these that federal farm policy is most appreciated. Continue Reading
The old saying cited above is usually limited to love and war. The spreading drought across the nation reminds us that it applies to farming as well. Some farmers get nicked by drought every year; others get lucky.
In the first blog in this series, I discussed how drought has affected me. As I walked through a Central Iowa corn field near Ames this summer, I surveyed another corn crop destroyed by the heat and dry conditions, (see photo) I wondered if this farm could survive.