The local season can't get started without planting seeds and seedlings, right? Join your Minnestoa Fair Food Fighters for Riverbend Farm Days, presented by: Riverbend Organic Farm, Common Roots, Birchwood Cafe, Lucia's, Fair Food Fight, and coordinated by Simple, Good, and Tasty (thanks, Lee!). Read more...
John Mesko is a new friend of mine that I met at a chapter meeting of Minnesota's Sustainable Farming Association. The Meskos run a beef, pork, poultry, and lamb operation called Lighthouse Farm, their pork steaks are fantastic, and John is a former Hoosier from Indianapolis, trained in ag at Purdue University, who is now a sustainable famer and executive director of the SFA Minnesota. 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...