MPLS Gardener Blogging for NY Times

Follow Michael Tortorello in the NY Times as he blogs about starting his first vegetable garden at his home in Minneapolis.

http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/the-starter-garden/

[where: Sustainable Food, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Twin Cities, Minnesota]

Cooking Up A Story

I recently subscribed to a new feed called "Cooking up a Story".

Cooking Up A Story is part of the Local Food Sustainable Network and offers stories and videos about all kinds of folks involved in sustainable agriculture and foods.

From their site:

Cooking Up A Story offers a variety of shows and news about sustainable food and living and those working to change our world for the better through agriculture, ecology, and the environment. We set the table with the information you need to know with food stories, food news, cooking with fresh and organic foods, and share many recipes from our family and show stories.

Check out their 2-part video series about Jon Bansen, an Organic Valley dairy farmer from Monmouth, Oregon.

Organic Dairy Farmer: Part 1

Organic Dairy Farmer: Part 2


Curious about Organic Valley Dairy producers? Learn more about the Organic Valley farmers in our region. Specifically, read about the Winnes family of Promise Farms in Brownsville, Mn.


[where: Sustainable Food, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Twin Cities, Minnesota]

Homegrown Minneapolis Wants Your Feedback

Would you support city policies that support increased growth, sales, distribution, and consumption of healthy, locally grown foods for all Minneapolis residents? Should the city create the necessary internal structure to support these efforts?

Homegrown Minneapolis is an initiative to develop recommendations for the City of Minneapolis to improve sales, distribution and consumption of fresh, locally grown foods to positively impact the health, food security, economy and environment of our City and the surrounding region.

Since December 2008, Homegrown Minneapolis has been working to develop specific recommendations for ways in which the City can assist in these efforts. The draft of these recommendations is now available for review and they have invited your feedback.

Your comments, along with stakeholder comments and comments from the community at two public meetings, will be used to further develop their final recommendations report before they present them to the Mayor and City Council in June 2009.

You can submit your feedback using their “Contact Us” page.

[where: Sustainable Food, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Twin Cities, Minnesota]