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What should you do when frac sand mining comes knocking? Get informed, get organized and get connected.
What should you do when frac sand mining comes knocking? Get informed, get organized and get connected.
People share their connections to the land and community at a special LSP storytelling event.
Using conservation grazing to keep wildlife refuges, prairies and other natural areas healthy.
A community food co-op in a farm town rises from the rubble and begins its next chapter.
LSP Citizens’ Frac Sand Summit (part 7): LSP’s Bobby King talks about the role of local government and state regulations in controlling frac sand mining.
A beginning farmer incubator near Duluth is helping revitalize food and farming in the Lake Superior region.
New farmers talk about how Farm Beginnings helps them balance demand for their products with keeping their businesses, and lives, sustainable.
A brother-sister team uses Farm Beginnings and Journeyperson to help transition from being landowners to active farmers.
An innovative grass-based system makes a farm friendly to livestock, wildlife and the bottom line.
LSP Farm Beginnings participants talk about “unfair advantages” as they launch an enterprise focusing on mushrooms and CSA vegetables.