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Waseca: Picking Up Momentum

June 29, 2012 By admin

Welcome to Waseca In the wake of Blandin Community Investment Partnership (BCIP) funding approval, over 100 Waseca residents discussed how they could meet goals vital to the health of their community. “We are really picking up momentum,” said Julie Linnihan of the City of Waseca. Care for community-the people and the land-is behind the energy […]

Filed Under: Community Development and Design, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Minnesota, Program - community, Programs to Welcome Increasing Cultural Diversity, Public Planning, Public Policy, Water Quality

Food Alliance Midwest

June 29, 2012 By admin

Working Together Food Alliance Midwest is a coalition of farmers, processors, distributors, grocers and consumers in the Midwest working together to promote sustainable farming. Funded by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, with additional funding from The Bush Foundation, The McKnight Foundation , Otto Bremer Foundation, and The Carolyn Foundation, the program is a […]

Filed Under: Alley Cropping, Beef and Dairy, Branding, Buy Local, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Contour, Erosion Control and Redirection, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fence Row Buffer Strips, Fruits, Green Products, Hogs, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Integrated Pest Management, Iowa, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, North Dakota, Pest Management, Practices, Program - non-profit, Riparian Buffer, Silvopasture, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Sustainable Use, Vegetables, Water Quality, Water Quality, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction, Windbreaks

BC Gardens

June 29, 2012 By admin

Healthy Produce Avid gardeners since childhood, Kathy Botten and Ruth Capp founded BC Gardens, an organic vegetable, herb, and flower garden in 1998. The “BC” in BC Gardens stands for “before chemicals” and “Botten, Capp”. Kathy and Ruth plant and work nearly 3+ acres at their home near Belgrade, Minnesota for commercial sale. “Gardening organically […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Buy Local, Certification Standards, Community Supported Agriculture, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Cover Crops, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct to Customer, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Healthful Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic, Organic farming, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Processing, Soil Quality, Sustainable Use, Value added, Vegetables

Cedar Creek Natural History Area

June 29, 2012 By admin

Article from the Star Tribune – Published July 27, 2002 by Tom Meersman A Natural Choice Chris Clark, a University of Minnesota researcher working with a dozen undergraduates in the fields recently, was swatting deerflies as he clipped and removed long, narrow strips of foliage from small plots in a grasslands experiment. The students, some […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Children, Families and Learning, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Education, Environmental Education Programs, Forest Preservation and Restoration, Habitat Restoration, Minnesota, Prairie Restoration, Program - university, Soil Quality, Wildlife Management

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