Ear to the Ground 229: Kernza’s Continuous Cover
A farmer and a researcher discuss the potential agronomic, economic, and ecological benefits of a commercially-viable perennial grain.
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A Farmer’s View of Climate Change
Climate change is happening. Farmers who work with higher elevations may be able to deny it. Those of us on more variable and wetter soils cannot. I have been aware of it in our farming for 20 years. The water cycle is impaired. This is the most obvious. Excessive rainfall spreads into a huge number… Read More →
‘Blitz the Prairie’ June 22 at Big Stone Lake State Park
ORTONVILLE, Minn. — Are you a prairie enthusiast ready to share your knowledge and passion with others? Looking for a fun family day that also supports public lands? Want an opportunity to discover a new dragonfly species in western Minnesota? Interested in learning about the connection between conservation grazing and healthy ecosystems? Join naturalists, farmers,… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 227: From Crisis to Community
When a CAFO threatened a rural neighborhood, residents looked to a beginning farmer for a different vision of the future.
Ear to the Ground 226: What Does Justice Look Like?
This is the third and final episode in a series titled, “Farming on Stolen Land.” These three episodes were developed by LSP staff member Elizabeth Makarewicz as a guide to exploring issues of native land justice and equity in Minnesota’s food system. In this episode, writer and scholar Waziyatawin shares with Elizabeth her vision of land justice for the Dakota people.
Ear to the Ground 224: Living on Stolen Ground
This is the first in a three-part series titled “Farming on Stolen Land.” These three episodes were developed by LSP staff member Elizabeth Makarewicz as a guide to exploring issues of native justice and equity in Minnesota’s food system. This first episode seeks to answer the question, “What does it mean to be a non-indigenous person living on native land?” Elizabeth’s interviewee, Nora Murphy, attempts to answer this question in her book, White Birch, Red Hawthorn.
LSP Member-Leaders Call for Preservation of Provider Tax & Expanded Healthcare for Rural Minnesotans
SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Farmers and other rural residents traveled to the Minnesota Capitol today to call on lawmakers to preserve a major source of funding for healthcare programs in the state. Since 1992, stable funding for public healthcare programs and public health initiatives in Minnesota has come from a small tax paid by healthcare… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 223: Sustainable Ag Policy’s Deep Roots
LSP co-founder Ron Kroese talks about the National Sustainable Agriculture Oral History Archive, which features interviews he did with pioneers in the movement to develop policy that supports regenerative farm and food systems.
Action Needed for State Investment in a New Ag Economy
We at the Land Stewardship Project have a strong vision for rural Minnesota where our communities are vibrant, our soil and water healthy and our local economies are strong. Our vision for people and the land can’t happen without bold policies and a real investment of our public dollars. Our state leaders are not embracing… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 222: Painting a New Picture for Landlords
Renter Mark Erickson shows landowners the benefits of converting cropland to pasture.