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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.

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Above graphic: Detail from Minnesota State Fair poster, c. 1920. Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society.