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Mississippi Headwaters Hostel

June 29, 2012 By admin

Travel MN European Style There are 650 hostels in former West Germany. Minnesota has only three. The best of those, and likely the best hostel in the Midwest, is the Mississippi Headwaters Hostel nestled in the heart of Itasca State Park. Tom Cooper, who has managed Mississippi Headwaters Hostel during the last decade, thinks the […]

Filed Under: Birding, Canoeing & Boating, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking & Cross-Country Skiing, Hospitality, Hostel, Minnesota, Program - non-profit, Tourism and Recreation

Mille Lacs Indian Museum

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Confluence of Old and New Ken Weyaus, Sr., can teach us how very close we still are to the traditional Ojibwe that lives, hunted, and fished in Minnesota just decades ago. As he leads tours through the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Historic Site on the western shore of Lake Mille Lacs, he will […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Cultural Preservation, Educational Opportunities, Energy and Green Building, Folk Arts, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Heritage Tourism, Historic Preservation, Interactive, Iowa, Minnesota, Performing Arts, Program - community, Program - non-profit, Reflecting Indigenous Design, Textile Arts, Tourism and Recreation

Grow Alabama

June 29, 2012 By admin

Birmingham, Alabama Jerry Spencer is an entrepreneur. So it was with a sense of adventure that this chiropractor of 20 years–a man who had never in his life grown a single tomato plant much less a garden–dug up his front lawn one day and planted a vegetable plot far bigger than what would feed his […]

Filed Under: Alabama, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Poultry, Program - non-profit, Vegetables

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

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