Recent News
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Minnesota Public Radio
High tunnels stretch season for Fergus Falls pair
Fergus Falls, Minn. (AP) - Some growers have one or two high tunnels, but Mark and Diane Boen are using seven in their 136-acre direct market produce farm near Fergus Falls.
The high tunnels have extended the Boens' growing season from four months to seven months with vine plan... Continued...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Wedge Community Co-op
Making it Local Longer: Season Extension comes to Abbe Hills Farm
As all local food affecionados know, our growing season for glorious, locally produced fruits and vegetables can be characterized by two words: short and sweet. With the threat of early and late frosts and a long winter in between, the season is way too short for those of us who know and love fres... Continued...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
NCAT/ATTRA
Hoop House Production Featured on New NCAT Radio Show
Tune in this Thursday, July 16 at 11 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) to hear the National Center for Appropriate Technology�s new Sustainable Agriculture Spotlight, a weekly Internet radio show on the Green Talk Network. This week�s Sustainable Agriculture Spotlight will show small scale fa... Continued...
Thursday, June 18, 2009
GreenBiz.com
Loans from Whole Foods Help Small Producers Grow Business
The credit crunch may affect banks' ability to loan money, and the glut of milk products is sending dairy cows to slaughter, but neither of those things have affected Neal Gottlieb, founder and partial owner of Three Twins Organic Ice Cream, based in San Rafael, California. Gottlieb said in a tel... Continued...
Monday, June 15, 2009
Star Tribune
Urban hydroponic farm: An idea that's all wet
Jim Hannigan is a glass-half-full kind of guy.
He has to be if he wants to sell you juicy strawberries in January picked fresh from his St. Paul farm.
For one thing, he's not a farmer. For another, winter isn't exactly peak growing season in Minnesota.
... Continued...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Des Moines Register
Yes, some produce is already growing
It was exciting Saturday to see fresh, Iowa grown-produce at the Downtown Des Moines Farmers Market. Yes, it is early — even early for asparagus to be plentiful. But I bought locally grown salad greens and baby lettuce at the market.
This is because Iowa farmers can stretch the ... Continued...
Monday, May 11, 2009
Stillwater Gazette
Capturing local farming traditions, past and present
Stillwater photographer Aileen Krzos makes her way around the Big River Farms greenhouse, quietly capturing images of Washington County's next generation of farmers while they learn how to extend the region's relatively short growing season.
Their faces offer a stark contrast to... Continued...
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Le Mars Daily Sentinel
Expert to introduce aronia berry crop to area
Aronia berries and high tunnel gardening are the wave of the future in Iowa, one expert says.
Dr. Eldon Everhart, horticulture specialist with Iowa State University (ISU), will lead an educational program on those topics Saturday, April 25.
The event, spon... Continued...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Yes! Magazine
Growing Power in an Urban Food Desert
At the northern outskirts of Milwaukee, in a neighborhood of boxy post-WWII homes near the sprawling Park Lawn housing project, stand 14 greenhouses arrayed on two acres of land. This is Growing Power, the only land within the Milwaukee city limits zoned as farmland.
Founded by... Continued...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
American Public Media
Farmers go low-tech to grow in winter
KAI RYSSDAL: Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm gave her state of the state address earlier this week. As you might have figured in a state walloped by the combination of the recession and Detroit's continuing problems, it was a grim affair. Not much extra money for anything.
So if you've been putti... Continued...
The Examiner
Urban agriculture - the healthy way to live
Located in a corridor of a neighborhood deemed by most folks as not being very safe even for its residents, an oasis of some sort has blossomed in the Englewood neighborhood. If you drive by too quickly on 58th & Wood Street you just might miss several permanent hoop houses. Collectively these struc... Continued...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Winter's cocoon
It's tank-top balmy in a hoop house at Snug Haven Farm where employees are snipping lush, crisp spinach in February.
It could be bitterly cold outside with a howling wind and driving snow. But inside this heavy plastic cocoon that captures the sun's heat, stunningly sweet spinach thrives. The hoo... Continued...
Monday, March 2, 2009
Sow the Seeds
Sow the Seeds Announces Grants to Support Local Food Systems
Sow the Seeds, a project of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) in partnership with the Wedge Co-op, announced a series of small grants today to support farmer education and outreach on season extension for fruit and vegetable production in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Season ... Continued...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Land Stewardship Letter
A (extended season) light at the end of the tunnel
Tomatoes by the end of June and early July, with harvest continuing until September and October. On top of that, get three times the production. You may think these are simple boasts from a growing area far to the south of the Upper Midwest, or a prediction of the future when global warming has stru... Continued...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Minnesota Grown contributes to Sow the Seeds
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is pleased to announce that the Minnesota Grown program at the MN Dept. of Agriculture has contributed $5,000 to Sow the Seeds' season extension program. "We believe that season extension is a vital strategy for expanding fruit and vegetable production ... Continued...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
BioCycle
Composting And Local Food Merge At Urban Garden
Growing Power (GP), a nonprofit urban garden and training center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides affordable produce to neighborhoods without access to fresh food, and processes a variety of organic wastes through composting and anaerobic digestion. Located on a two-acre lot on Milwaukee's north si... Continued...
Monday, November 24, 2008
Baltimore Sun
Seeds of change
Driving on U.S. 40, shoving along with the traffic past strip malls, gas stations and drive-through restaurants, there's no apparent reason to give Nuwood Road, landmarked by an auto supply store, a second glance.
But if one did turn in and hang a quick right, he or she would see what could soon ... Continued...
Thursday, October 16, 2008
The New York Times
Farmer in Chief
Dear Mr. President-Elect,
It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something American presidents have had to give much thought to, at least since the ... Continued...
Pioneer Press
Farmers, food shelves unite to feed hungry in Minnesota, Wisconsin
Beneath gray skies last week, rain-soaked volunteers picked deep-red apples from low-hanging branches before loading them into a truck headed to area food shelves.
The apples — harvested from a small orchard near Maiden Rock, Wis. — are part of an experiment to provide the needy healthier, fresh... Continued...
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The New York Times
Uniting Around Food to Save an Ailing Town (VT)
THIS town's granite companies shut down years ago and even the rowdy bars and porno theater that once inspired the nickname "Little Chicago" have gone.
Facing a Main Street dotted with vacant stores, residents of this hardscrabble community of 3,000 are reaching into its past to se... Continued...
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