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Eric Utne has a bone to pick with Linden Hills Co-op, and pick he does, in the magazine that he formerly edited, The Utne Reader.
At issue? A $9.5 million per year natural foods grocery store here in Minneapolis, Linden Hills Co-op, is growing. It's also relocating less than a mile away to take advantage of that growth. Read more...
I'll be tweeting and live-blogging from the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota conference in Northfield today. You can follow along here and at the Fair Food Fight Twitter page. Read more...
Fair Food Fight would like to hear a round of rousing, wrestler applause for Linden Hills Co-op here in Minneapolis for reaching their goal of raising $1.5 million -- in less than 90 days. From the Linden Hills Co-op website:
We are delighted to announce that the co-op’s member loan drive has reached our goal of $1.5 million in committed loans from more than 200 co-op members! Linden Hills Co-op is moving in fall 2010 to a new larger location at 3815 Sunnyside Avenue. Read more...
Via the excellent Cooking Up a Story:
"Steven Schwen of Earthen Path Organic Farm (Lake City, Minnesota) has built an innovative greenhouse that allows him to extend his growing season while reducing energy costs....
Last week, Fair Food Fight petitioned dairy farmers for their take on ABC's piece on dehorning, and it was an excellent discussion. Read the whole thread if you want a nice, strong cup of farmer know-how. Read more...
My first box of wintershare CSA produce arrived from Rock Spring Farm down there on the Minnesota-Iowa border.
What does one receive in a wintershare program from a farm in the Upper Midwest? Here's the run-down, which farmer Chris Blanchard posts on his Eat Better News blog: Read more...
If you were up late, you saw that Fair Food Fight tweeted this last night: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued a statement saying that it doesn't intend to grant a new permit to stinky Excel Dairy in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Read more...
The Minnesota Sustainable Farming Association is conducting a writing contest for young Minnesotans between the ages of 14-18 and college age people 19-25.
Prize: $50 and a plaque.
Deadline: Entries must be received by Friday, March 12, 2010.
Here are some of contest details:
Youth Sustainability Writing Competition Contest
Purpose Read more...
When I started following Jake Schultz on Twitter, and reading his tweets about his urban chicken coop, I figured he lived somewhere warm and chicken-friendly. But as tweets went by, I realized, no, he was in the Upper Midwest. Then I realized, no, he was in my town, right here in Minneapolis. So I contacted him and realized, wow, he lives about 8 blocks from me. Read more...
A cow with an excess of 129 times the legal limit for penicillin was yanked from the slaughter line in Minnesota. From the Star Tribune:
J&L Dairy, in Clarissa, Minn., sent a dairy cow to slaughter in March, even though it was drugged with 129 times the amount of penicillin allowed under federal regulations. Read more...
