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Table of Contents
Commentary…3
• What is the value of land?
• People have power too
• Tom Taylor's passion
• Gary Kubly's quiet courage
LSP financial update…6
LSP News…7
• 2012 Family Farm Breakfast
• LSP staff changes
• New board members
• New LSP website to be launched
Policy & Organizing…9
• Taking on corporate control
• Bad health care bill vetoed
• Citizens keep local control strong
• Lawmakers speak out for local control
• Senate Ag Committee's bill a disappointment
• LSPers testify on conservation, beginning farmer issues
Farm Beginnings…14
• Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse
• Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Anna Racer & Peter Skold
• Summer-fall farm skills workshops
Passing It On…18
• Making the farm attractive
• Some preventive maintenance
• Tales of transition
Community Based Food Systems…24
• Highlighting food, skills & community
• Urban ag rules pass
• Beating diabetes on the street, in the garden
• Greenhouse skills
• Putting it on paper
Profits from Perennials…26
• Restoring the resource
• Soil health workshop/field day in September
• Monitoring soil health
Reviews…28
• Turn Here Sweet Corn
• Dirty Work
• Music for the Mountains
Membership Update…30
• Sustaining long-term stewardship
• Volunteer for LSP
• In memory & in honor
• Brasa LSP benefit June 17
• Get current with LIVE-WIRE
• LSP on the social media circuit
• Voices of the Land
• Support LSP in your workplace