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Recent issues of the Land Stewardship Letter:

No. 1, 2024, Land Stewardship Letter

Sister Mary Tacheny’s LSP Legacy ♦ Mapping Our Future ♦ Climate-Smart Ag & the Cobra Effect ♦ Minnesota Legislative Wrap-up ♦ Senate Farm Bill ♦ LSAF’s Local Impact ♦ Regenerative Ag’s Farmer-to-Farmer Connections ♦ Silvopasturing’s Promise ♦ Johnson-Su Composting ♦ CSA’s Past, Present, Future ♦ Beginning Farmers Speak Out ♦ R. Roots Garden’s Urban Ag Dream ♦ Reviews: Barons, Perennial Ceremony

No. 1, 2023, Land Stewardship Letter

40 Stories for 40 Years ♦ SLAPPs ♦ New LSP Leadership ♦ Minnesota Legislative Wrap-up ♦ Rural Healthcare Wins ♦ 2023 Farm Bill ♦ Charisma isn’t Everything ♦ Why Food Webs Matter ♦ Soil Health’s Pay Dirt Payoff ♦ Don’t Take Climate Change Personally ♦ A Day in the Life of Farm Beginnings ♦ Reviews: Grain By Grain; Milked; Ground Glass ♦ Kimmerer Keynote ♦ Joe Morse’s Justice Legacy

No. 2, 2022, Land Stewardship Letter

Songs for the Soil ♦ 2023 Farm Bill Platform ♦ Minnesota Food & Farm Campaign ♦ Ending the Extractive Economy ♦ Meat Processing Bottleneck ♦ CSA Farm Sign-up ♦ From Dubai to the Driftless  ♦ Solar Powered Land Access ♦ Regenerative Rental Relationships ♦ Field Days: A Season of Knowledge Transfer ♦ Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Big Questions ♦ The Seed Keeper ♦ Return of the Twin Cities Picnic ♦ High Impact Gifts

No. 2, 2021, Land Stewardship Letter

A Season of Field Days ♦ Dave Serfling’s Policy Breakthrough ♦ Manure Methane’s False Promise ♦ Minnesota Legislative Preview ♦ Drought Assistance ♦ The Unpalatability of Food Concentration ♦ A CAFO Stymied ♦ Soil Health’s Wonder Field ♦ Journeyperson Paces a Farm ♦ A Commons Approach to Land Access ♦ Building Community Food Webs ♦ CSA Directory ♦ A Revamped Website

No. 1, 2021, Land Stewardship Letter

LSP Leadership Change ♦ 2 Decades of Farm Beginnings ♦ A Few Words for Water ♦ Raw Deal on Farmland ♦ Seeing Whiteness in the Food System ♦ Reawakening Native Farming’s Heritage ♦ Hybrid Rye Takes on an Evolutionary Monster ♦ Meditations with Cows

No. 2, 2020, Land Stewardship Letter

Rural Stress ♦ Big Meat’s Big Lie ♦ Legislative Wrap-up ♦ Organizing & Social Change Cohort ♦ Shocks to the System ♦ Lack of Local Meat Processing ♦ Racism is Not Sustainable ♦ A Caver-Farmer’s Report from the Underground ♦ Farm Transition Power Team ♦ SILT’s Removal of the Spectre of Speculation ♦ Farm Transition Tools ♦ Registered to Vote? ♦ Losing Farmers, Losing Community

No. 1, 2020, Land Stewardship Letter

New ED ♦ Frac Sand Ban ♦ The Voices of the Farm Crisis ♦ The Power of Small Group Discussions ♦ Insects, Ag & Economics ♦ Power Walking Pastures ♦ That Farm on Highway 40 ♦ Wildling ♦ Making a Wager on Smaller Dairy Farms ♦ Ag’s Climate Change Potential ♦ Channeling Water’s Profitability ♦ A New Generation of Soil Generators ♦ Fulfilling a Social Contract with Carrots

No. 3, 2019, Land Stewardship Letter

Sustainable Ag Oral History ♦ Mega Dairies & Local Economies ♦ Partners on the Food Marketing Front ♦ Developing Financial Skills ♦ Farm Crisis Statement ♦ Standing Up to a Factory Farm ♦ Talking Trade ♦ Renting It Out Right ♦ Conservation Leases Toolkit ♦ Farm Transition Planning ♦ Science of Soil Health Resiliency ♦ Report from the Soil Health Underground ♦ Farming for the Long Haul

No. 1, 2019, Land Stewardship Letter

Remembering Dean Harrington & Chris Blanchard ♦ Land Gifts & Indigenous Lands ♦ Nitrogen Fertilizer’s Limitation ♦ Frac Sand Case ♦ Family Farm Breakfast ♦ Healthcare Victory ♦ Factory Farms ♦ 2019 Legislative Session ♦ Rooting a Landowner Relationship in Soil ♦ Local Foods Initiative ♦ Rallying Around a Beginning Farmer ♦ Integrating Crops & Livestock ♦ Storm Lake

 No. 3, 2018, Land Stewardship Letter

The War on SNAP ♦ Journalists Get the Scoop on Soil Health ♦ Farm Beginnings Field Days ♦ Fighting Factory Farms ♦ Healthcare Petition ♦ Our Minnesota Future ♦ Land Stewardship Action Fund ♦ Cropping Systems Calculator ♦ Soil Health & Profits ♦ Soil Health Pocket Guide ♦ Climate Conversation ♦ Ecological Agrarians ♦ Farm Dreams ♦ Wildly Successful Farming

No. 2, 2018, Land Stewardship Letter

Bold Solutions Call for Bold Actions ♦ Family Farm Breakfast ♦ Remembering Dwight Ault ♦ Legislative Update ♦ Federal Farm Bill ♦ Private Insurer Waste ♦ Ray Archuleta’s Soil Passion ♦ The Currency of Carbon ♦ Climate Video ♦ Calculating Erosion’s Cost ♦ Beginning Farmer Tax Credit ♦ Farm Stress: Never, Ever Ignore the Problem ♦ When Nature Bites Back ♦ The Driftless Reader

No. 1, 2018, Land Stewardship Letter

Climate Change, Agriculture & Energy ♦ The Economics of Working Lands Conservation ♦ Crop Insurance: A Torn Safety Net ♦ Healthcare ♦ A Vision for Rural Minnesota ♦ Call to Save CSP ♦ Bringing Soil Health to Congress ♦ Racial Justice Cohort ♦ Farm Dreams ♦ Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship ♦ Making Connections in Mexico ♦ CSA Farm Directory ♦ Ten Plants that Changed Minnesota

No. 3, 2017, Land Stewardship Letter

Joe Morse’s Legacy ♦ Conservation Compliance’s Noncompliance ♦ In Memory: Lisa Coons & Lou Anne Kling ♦ Soil Health & Climate Change ♦ Dirty Underwear ♦ Prairie After the Plow ♦ Cropping Systems Calculator ♦ Community Based Foods ♦ Ecological Agrarians ♦ Farm Transitions Toolkit ♦ Beginning Farmer Tax Credit ♦ Reviews: Conservation on the Northern Plains, Locally Laid, Beneath the Bedrock ♦ HEAL Meeting

No. 2, 2017, Land Stewardship Letter

Who Benefits When We’re Divided? ♦ LSP, Climate & Soil ♦ The Myths Around Public Ag Research ♦ LSP Mexico Delegation ♦ State Legislative Update ♦ Corporate Control of Healthcare ♦ Farm Bill Meetings ♦ Frac Sand Mining Ban ♦ Flunking a Soil Test ♦ Putting Soil Health to Work ♦ Soil Builders’ Network ♦ Ecological Agrarians ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Farm Transitions Toolkit ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Review: Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman

No. 1, 2017, Land Stewardship Letter

Change Comes from the Ground Up ♦ Keeping Checkoffs Accountable ♦ Who Does the MPCA Serve? ♦ Everett Koenig’s Legacy ♦ Our Farm Bill ♦ Healthcare’s Need for Long-term Reform ♦ 2017 Legislative Session ♦ Anatomy of a Grassroots Campaign ♦ Racial Justice Cohort ♦ New Narrative About Race ♦ Ecological Agrarians ♦ Cover Crops, Grazing & Profits ♦ Community Based Food Systems ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Farm Transitions Toolkit ♦ The Poetry of Soil ♦ Review: The Hidden Half of Nature

No. 3, 2016, Land Stewardship Letter

Mark Schultz is LSP’s New ED ♦ The Art of Soil Conservation ♦ Cross-Border Connection ♦ Corporate Health Insurance’s Failure ♦ Beginning Farmer & Rancher Report ♦ Momentum Building for Frac Sand Mining Ban ♦ Urban Soil Health Initiative ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Racial Justice Cohort ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Farm Transitions Toolkit ♦ Cover, Cattle & Clean Water ♦ Cropping Systems Calculator ♦ Feathers, Food & Inebriated Grasshoppers ♦ Reviews: The Big Marsh, Vitamin N

No. 2, 2016, Land Stewardship Letter

Making Our Farm & Food System Accountable ♦ Cattle, Carbon & Climate ♦ Land Ethic = Water Ethic ♦ Soil Health’s Policy Problem ♦ 2016 Family Farm Breakfast ♦ One Step Closer to a Frac Sand Ban ♦ Potatoes & Toxins ♦ Minnesota Legislative Wrap-up ♦ Healthcare as a Human Right ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Is Farming in Your Future? ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Conservation Leases ♦ Cropping Systems Calculator ♦ The Goals Driving Cover Cropping ♦ Reviews: Resilient Agriculture, Whispers & Shadows

No. 4, 2015, Land Stewardship Letter

A Land Ethic for Our Common Home ♦ Winona County Frac Sand Mining Ban ♦ Wildlife & Safe Food ♦ LSP Trip to Mexico ♦ MNSure’s Potential ♦ Farming, French Fries & Fast Food ♦ Gender & Farmland Demographics ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Is Farming in Your Future? ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Farm Transitions Toolkit ♦ Township Manual ♦ Riparian Grazing ♦ King of the Cover Crops ♦ Soil Health on Woman’s Land ♦ Reviews: Going Driftless, The End of Plenty

No. 3, 2015, Land Stewardship Letter

Suppressing a 2-Way Conversation ♦ Tallgrass Prairies & Livestock ♦ BioBlitzing the Prairie ♦ 2015 LSP Twin Cities Cookout ♦ Citizens Provided an Environmental Voice ♦ Wage Theft Fighter ♦ Crop Insurance Reform ♦ LSP Trip to Mexico in March ♦ Healthcare Task Force ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ An Odd Acre of Opportunity ♦ Farm Transitions ♦ Soil Health Summer ♦ Targeted Conservation ♦ Co-op Country ♦ Eat for Equity ♦ CSA Directory ♦ Review: The Land of Milk & Uncle Honey

No. 1, 2015, Land Stewardship Letter

Ensuring the Future of Farming ♦ Snirt Alert in Farm Country ♦ Momentum on Crop Insurance Reform ♦ Honoring Wendell Berry ♦ GMO Feed Mixer ♦ Minnesota Legislature ♦ Climate, Energy & Land Stewardship ♦ Moving Forward on Healthcare ♦ Forever Green ♦ Cover Crop Coverage ♦ Not Just a Man’s World ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Farm Transitions Toolkit ♦ How Wheat Can Tell Ag’s Story ♦ Reviews: A Bigger Prize, Willful Blindness, Mysteries of the Driftless, The American Way of Eating

No. 4, 2014, Land Stewardship Letter

Ensuring Disaster ♦ Continuous Learning About Continuous Living Cover ♦ End of an LSL Era ♦ Is Farming in Your Future? ♦ Women Caring for the Land ♦ Contract Grazing & Land Stewardship ♦ Cover Crops & Wildlife ♦ How Crop Insurance Became a Policy Disaster ♦ Which Insurance Plan is for You? ♦ Speaking Out on Corporate Control ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Farm Transitions Toolkit  ♦ Don’t Sell the Farm ♦ Reviews: The Ogallala Road, The Third Plate

No. 2, 2014, Land Stewardship Letter

LSP’s Long-Range Plan ♦ Biofuels from Corn ‘Waste’: a Bad Idea ♦ Family Farm Breakfast ♦ Holistic Management Workshop ♦ Frac Sand Fight Heats Up ♦ Forever Green Funded ♦ Free Trade-Fair Trade ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Journeyperson Course ♦ Farm Dreams ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land ♦ The Incubator Acre ♦ Farm Transitions Toolkit ♦ Women Caring for the Land ♦ To Till or Not to Till ♦ Conservation, Cattle & Community ♦ Reviews: The Meat Racket; Plant a Pocket of Prairie; Quarter-Acre Farm

No. 1, 2014, Land Stewardship Letter

Sand, Land & Land Stewardship ♦ New Farm Bill’s Shortcomings ♦ Cattle & Creeks Can Mix ♦ Frac Sand Summit ♦  Healthier Healthcare ♦ Stories from the Land ♦ CSA Farm Directory ♦ Community Based Food Systems ♦ Little Co-op on the Prairie ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Journeyperson Course ♦ Farm Dreams ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Public Grazing’s Public Good ♦ Cover Crops & Resisting Resiliency ♦ Ear to the Ground Podcast ♦ Reviews: Leaving Rollingstone; Sunlit Riffles & Shadowed Runs; The Sixth Extinction

No. 4, 2013, Land Stewardship Letter

Digging into the Big Land Grab ♦ Nitro-Powered Farming ♦ Do We Really Need to Double Food Production? ♦ People-Centered Healthcare ♦  Stewardship Farm Directory ♦ Farm Transition Stories ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Profits from Perennials ♦ Cover Cropping’s Next Act ♦ Get Current with LIVE-WIRE ♦ LSP Financial Update ♦ Reviews: Rebuilding the Foodshed; Muskrat for Supper

No. 3, 2013, Land Stewardship Letter

One Woman’s Land Story ♦ What Makes a Land Steward? ♦ GMOs Can’t Replace Diversity ♦ In Remembrance: Steve O’Neil, Dan Spect, Art Redig ♦ LIVE-WIRE ♦ Ear to the Ground Podcast ♦ People’s Frac Sand EIS ♦ Immigration Reform & Rally ♦ The Big of CSP Counties ♦ Small Town Co-op is Revised ♦ Women Caring for the Land ♦ Farm Beginnings in the Lake Superior Region ♦ Journeyperson ♦ Cattle, Creeks & Changed Minds ♦ Prairie Strips on Working Farms ♦ Reviews: Mountain Justice; Apocalyptic Planet

No. 2, 2013, Land Stewardship Letter

The Big Land Grab ♦ The Year of Living Deciduously ♦ Insidious Neonics ♦ Look Who’s Knockin’ ♦  Land Access Conversations ♦ Minnesota Legislative Update ♦ 2013 Farm Bill? ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Journeyperson ♦ Urban Ag’s Foot in the Door ♦ Food Sovereignty & Wozupi ♦ Building Soil & Trust in the City ♦ Conversations Rooted in Values ♦ A Step Backward on Erosion Control ♦ Making Diversity Pay its Own Way ♦ Get Current with LIVE-WIRE ♦ LSP Financial Update ♦ Reviews: Beautiful & Abundant; America the Possible; My Green Manifesto

No. 1, 2013, Land Stewardship Letter

The Dust Bowl’s Gritty Reality ♦ Jim Koplin: 1933-2012 ♦ Diverse Cropping’s Profit Potential ♦ 2013 Family Farm Breakfast ♦ Look Who’s Knockin’ ♦ Frac Sand Regulation at the Legislature ♦ Wage Theft ♦ Immigration Reform ♦ Healthcare Exchange Approved ♦ Taking a Stewardship Message to DC ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Journeyperson Course ♦ Cover Crops in SE MN ♦ Soil Health, Profits & Resiliency ♦ Prairie Strips in Iowa ♦ Reviews: The Town That Food Saved; Salt Sugar Fat; Roll Me Up & Smoke Me When I Die

No. 4, 2012, Land Stewardship Letter

30 Years of Letters from the Land ♦ How High Land Prices Bankrupt Rural Economies ♦ 2012 Farm Bill ♦ Farm Policy’s Mixed Harvest ♦ You & Healthcare ♦ CSA Farm Directory ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ LSP Farmer Network ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Community Based Food Systems ♦ Kitchen Table Talk ♦ An Oasis in the Food Desert ♦ Teaming with Microbes ♦ Cover Cropping in Western MN ♦ Reviews: Tomatoland; Urban Agriculture

No. 3, 2012, Land Stewardship Letter

Stewarding the Right to Vote ♦ Townships & Local Control ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming ♦ Team Approach to Transitioning ♦ Journeyperson ♦ Raising Farmers to the Trade ♦ Livestock Loan Program ♦ Protecting Communities from Frac Sand Mining ♦ Farm Bill’s Clouded Outlook ♦ Corporate Control & Worker Rights Petitions ♦ CSP ♦ Hope in the Garden ♦ North Dakota’s Soil Health Revolution ♦ Soil Health Web Page ♦ Holistic Management ♦ Why I Belong to LSP ♦ Reviews: The Good Food Revolution; Stand Up!

No. 2, 2012, Land Stewardship Letter

What is the Value of Land? ♦ People Have Power Too ♦ Tom Taylor’s Passion ♦ 2012 Family Farm Breakfast ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming ♦ Taking on Corporate Control ♦ Citizens Keep Local Control Strong ♦ LSPers Testify on Conservation & Beginning Farmer Issues ♦ Highlighting Food, Skills & Community ♦ Urban Ag Rules Pass ♦ Putting it on Paper ♦ Beating Diabetes on the Street, in the Garden ♦ Restoring the Soil Resource ♦ Monitoring Soil Health ♦ Reviews: Turn Here Sweet Corn; Dirty Work; Music for the Mountains

No. 1, 2012, Land Stewardship Letter

Dana Jackson Infects a New Generation ♦ A Farm as Natural Habitat ♦ LSP Podcast ♦ Making Land Connections ♦ Sand Mining’s Unstable Foundation ♦ Faces in the Healthcare Crowd ♦ 2 Paths, 2 Visions for an Exchange ♦ Crop Insurance’s Disastrous Mission Creep ♦ Local Control Under Attack ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming ♦ A Farm Transition That Can Weather a Rainy Day ♦ Play: Look Who’s Knockin’ ♦ Community Based Food Systems: Collaborative Marketing ♦ Urban Ag Plan Advances ♦ Reviews: Made to Stick; Scripture, Culture & Agriculture; Food & Faith

No. 4, 2011, Land Stewardship Letter

Seeing is Believing ♦ Raising Elijah is Everyone’s Work ♦ Myth Buster: Ag Drainage ♦ Dream of a Nation ♦ Sugar Hill Gang ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming ♦ Beginning Farmer & Rancher Opportunity Act ♦ Troubled Waters Remain Troubled ♦ Denying the Science on Water & Ag ♦ Working Lands & Wildlife ♦ Hope for a Healthy Food System ♦ Bud Markhart & a Systems Approach ♦ Spark of Life on Main Street ♦ Farm-to-School ♦ Ganging up on Grass ♦ A New Way to Talk About Cover Crops ♦ Reviews: Gathering; Conversations with the Land

No. 3, 2011, Land Stewardship Letter

Investing in Farming’s Future ♦ Why We Farm the Way We Do ♦ The Seeds of Wildly Successful Stewardship ♦ Nina Leopold Bradley: 1917-2011 ♦ Myth Buster: Biofuels ♦ Resiliency Through Diversity ♦ CSP Snapshot: Arvid & Lois Jovaag ♦ Legislative Update ♦ Taking on Corporate Abuse ♦ Bringing D.C. to the Farm ♦ Farm Beginnings Planning & Skills Assessments ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming ♦ Crunching Food Transport Numbers ♦ Market Fresh at the Farmers’ Market ♦ The Grassing of a Midwestern Farm ♦ Reviews: The Biochar Debate; The Nature Principle; Imagination in Place

No. 2, 2011, Land Stewardship Letter

Don’t Bankrupt the Soil Bank ♦ ‘The Most Abused Chemical We’ve Ever had in Ag.’ ♦ Myth Buster: Soil Erosion ♦ A Call for New Farmers ♦ BFRDP ♦ GIPSA ♦ Local Control Stays Strong ♦ When a Factory Farm Comes to Town ♦ Wildly Successful Farming: Stripping Soil Conservation to its Bare Essentials ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming ♦ Community Based Food: Concrete Agrarians ♦ Farming on the Urban Edge ♦ Community Kitchen, Community Garden ♦ Fresh Food & Food Banks ♦ Reviews: A Watershed Year; A Hopeful Earth; Crow Planet

No. 1, 2011, Land Stewardship Letter

Enabling a New Era of Ag ♦ Troubled Waters Coverage ♦ Myth Buster: Antibiotics in Livestock Feed ♦ Look Who’s Knockin’ ♦ Reaching Out in Hog Country ♦ Legislative Update ♦ Homegrown Democracy ♦ Economic Development & Racial Equity ♦ Ag Commissioner Q & A ♦ Livestock Market Reforms ♦ GIPSA ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Holistic Classes ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land ♦ Urban Ag Plan Passes ♦ Connecting Health & Local Food ♦ Meals on Wheels ♦ Reviews: This Perennial Land; Leavings; People of the Sturgeon ♦ Stewardship Farm Directory ♦ CSA Farm Survey

Autumn 2010 Land Stewardship Letter

Less Support for Family Farmers? ♦ The Language of the Land ♦ Myth Buster: Clean Water & Land Retirement ♦ Play: Look Who’s Knockin’ ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ GIPSA Enforcement ♦ New CSP: Putting Conservation on the Ground ♦ Troubled Waters & U of M Censorship ♦ Immigration Rights ♦ Monied Manure Pits ♦ A Community Supports Beginning Dairy Farmers ♦ Community Gardens & Permanent Roots ♦ Wildly Successful Farming: Farmers, Water Quality & a Giant Spring ♦ Reviews: Diet for a Hot Planet; Moral Ground; Love God, Heal Earth; Chickens in the City

Summer 2010 Land Stewardship Letter

An Open Letter to the Local Foods Community ♦ Creating a Sustainable Local Food System Based on Trust & Sharing ♦ My Healthcare Needs a KISS ♦ Myth Buster: Roundup Herbicide ♦ Factory Farming’s Hidden Handout ♦ Livestock Field Hearings ♦ We Need Stronger Packer Rules ♦ LSP on Facebook ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Farm Beginnings in Other States ♦ Access to Land: The Next Step ♦ Beginning Farmer Land Access Survey ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming ♦ A Dairy Scientist Walks into a Farmer Meeting… ♦ Reviews: Finding Beauty in a Broken World; Cultivating an Ecological Conscience

Spring 2010 Land Stewardship Letter

3 Generations of Farm Women & Farm Beginnings ♦ Myth Buster: Regional Food & Local Economies ♦ Diversifying Farm Demographics ♦ Family Farm Breakfast ♦ Rivers & Farming ♦ Immigrants & Immigrant Myths ♦ CSP Sign-up ♦ Legislative Update ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Mary Dirty Face Farm ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land ♦ Homegrown Economy ♦ Farm-to-School & a Local Community ♦ Reviews: Memory of Trees; Methland ♦ Summer Celebrations

Winter 2010 Land Stewardship Letter

Farmwork, Farmerworkers & Sustainability ♦ Myth Buster: GMOs & Pesticide Use ♦ Plowing the Numbers on Mega-Farms ♦ LSP Named ‘Local Food Hero’ ♦ 2010 CSA Directory ♦ Holding Atrazine’s Manufacturer Accountable ♦ CSP’s Test Drive ♦ Beginning Farmer & Rancher Development Program ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Heather Smith ♦ Buy Fresh Buy Local ♦ Farmers’ Market on Campus ♦ Local Food in a Retirement Community ♦ Wildly Successful Farming: Passion & Ag ♦ Reviews: Two Angry Moms; All My Bones Shake; Food Rules 

Autumn 2009 Land Stewardship Letter

Defining Family Farming ♦ Myth Buster: Undocumented Immigrants & the Economy ♦ Healthcare Reform & Faith ♦ LSP Hosts USDA Deputy Secretary ♦ Hooves, Wings & Local Food ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Erin & Joe Yanish ♦ Field Days ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Local Foods in Bluff Country ♦ Home Grown Economy ♦ Stewardship Farm Directory ♦ Dine Fresh Dine Local in the St. Croix ♦ Wildly Successful Farming: Farm as Natural Change Agent ♦ Reviews: Bringing It to the Table; Dark Dreaming, Global Dimming ♦ Joe Paddock Poetry

Summer 2009 Land Stewardship Letter

Will Allen & a Just Food System ♦ Plowing Through the Numbers of Direct Food ♦ Myth Buster: COOL & Local Food ♦ Green Acres ♦ Terra Madre & Fresh ♦ Legislative Roundup ♦ Health Scare Stories ♦ Justice for Immigrants ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Jody & Mike Lenz; Nolan & Vanessa Lenzen ♦ Seeking Farmers-Seeking Land Clearinghouse ♦ Stewardship & Local Foods ♦ Local Foods for All ♦ The Year of Eating Locally ♦ Wildly Successful Farming: Pollinators in Peril ♦ Reviews: Holy Ground; Deeply Rooted

Winter 2009 Land Stewardship Letter

Hogs & Animal Husbandry ♦ Myth Buster: Sustainable Farming as a Luxury? ♦ Farming with Grass ♦ Food, Birds & the Landscape ♦ Alternative Dairy ♦ Gutting Green Acres ♦ Legislative Preview ♦ Beginning Farmers & the Farm Bill ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Karen Haverinen ♦ Hmong & Spanish Resources ♦ Farm Beginnings in Action ♦ Food & Transportation ♦ Local Food as Rural Development ♦ Wildly Successful Farming: Nature Reserves vs. Farms as Natural Habitats; One Farm’s Patchwork Quilt ♦ Reviews: Kitchen Literacy; The Transition Handbook ♦ Ellie Schoenfeld Poetry

Autumn 2008 Land Stewardship Letter

A Sick Healthcare System ♦ Myth Buster: Local Food’s Carbon Footprint ♦ SE MN Cookout ♦ Alternative Swine Meetings ♦ Field Days Showcase Stewardship ♦ Farm Bill Implementation ♦ LSP Atrazine Survey ♦ Big Picture View of Science ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Sara Martinez & Matt Urch ♦ Farmers Looking for Land & Vice-Versa ♦ Growing Fuel on the Farm ♦ Water Quality & Nitrogen Use ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ Local Food: A Fresh Alternative in Bar & Grill Country ♦ Reviews: Stuffed & Starved; Eating in Place

Summer 2008 Land Stewardship Letter

Farms as Main Street Motors ♦ Myth Buster: Feeding the World & Organics ♦ Well Water Testing ♦ Farm Beginnings Field Days ♦ Community Food & Farm Fest ♦ Green Fuels-Green Farming: Plugging into the Prairie ♦ MN Legislative Wrap-up ♦ Keeping Factory Farm Info Public ♦ 2008 Farm Bill Wrap-up ♦ Farm Beginnings in Lake Superior Region ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Jon & Mindy Kaiser ♦ U of M & Sustainable Ag ♦ Dine Fresh Dine Local ♦ Coyote Energy Lessons ♦ Stewardship Food Directory ♦ Review: Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook ♦ Morgan Grace Willow Poetry ♦ Land & Stewardship Legacies

Spring 2008 Land Stewardship Letter

Rocks, Farming, Love & Loyalty ♦ Don’t Forget Immigration Reform ♦ Myth Buster: Nitrogen & True Fertility ♦ Family Farm Breakfast ♦ Dana Jackson Honored ♦ Local Food on Local Menus ♦ 2007 Farm Bill Stalled ♦ LSP’s State Legislative Platform ♦ Helping Flood-Ravaged Farmers ♦ Racking Up the Food Miles ♦ Harvest for the Hungry ♦ Food Alliance Midwest ♦ Farm Beginnings ♦ Fresh Faces-Fresh Farming: Ryan & Kristine Jepsen ♦ Green Fuels-Green Farming: Biofuels & Sustainable Ag ♦ Reviews: In Defense of Food; King Corn

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