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Two Minnesota farmers experiment with multi-species cover cropping to improve soil health.
Two Minnesota farmers experiment with multi-species cover cropping to improve soil health.
Southeast Minnesota citizens traveled to Saint Paul yesterday and presented copies of the People’s EIS Scoping Report to each of the state agency commissioners and citizen members who make up Minnesota’s Environmental Quality Board (EQB). Land Stewardship Project organizer Johanna Rupprecht made these comments to the EQB after the report was delivered to the EQB… Read More →
How can we get more farms to integrate prairie into row-cropped fields?
How farmers are improving trout streams with grazing.
Steve O’Neil, the Land Stewardship Project’s first community organizer who went on to serve as a mentor and adviser to the organization for most of its history, lost a battle with cancer on Monday. He was 63. Steve was hired in 1982 by Ron Kroese shortly after Kroese and Victor Ray founded LSP. O’Neil’s first… Read More →
Farm Beginnings applies the brakes to a young couple’s farming plans—in a good way.
How ‘Tribally Supported Agriculture’ could help a Native American community attain food sovereignty.
An innovative grass-based system makes a farm friendly to livestock, wildlife and the bottom line.
LSP helps launch the Minnesota Farmworker Justice Campaign to put the spotlight on ag labor violations on industrial farms.
An LSP member-farm helps spawn a CSA movement in China.