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flyingtomato | Big Stone Bounty
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Local Food, Community, and Local Democracy in the Big Stone Lake Region of Minnesota. Flyingtomato, aka Rebecca Terk, is the author of Prairie Center blog. Life on the prairie. January 10, 2014. It was a gorgeous day to be outside. After what seemed like a month of sub-zero temps, some of which was designated The Great Polar Vortex Event of 2014, it was ever-so-slightly. Freezing this afternoon, and it felt like time to cast aside the long underwear and cavort wool socks-less across the prairie. We haven...
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HumbleRoots Heritage LiveStalk: Mulefoot Hogs, Bourbon Red Turkeys, Poulet Rouge Meatbirds: June WWOOF'ers: Two Southerners Experience Northern Hospitality
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HumbleRoots Heritage LiveStalk: Mulefoot Hogs, Bourbon Red Turkeys, Poulet Rouge Meatbirds. Wednesday, June 23, 2010. June WWOOF'ers: Two Southerners Experience Northern Hospitality. So what do two 20 somethings do when their college town gives them the boot? Drive to rural Minnesota and volunteer on an organic livestock farm, right? We were fortunate to find the Stout Family (Joey, Jessi, Azure, and Aurelia) through WWOOF and more fortunate that they would have us for a month stay. We had some time to g...
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14 Acres: Thanks for the topsoil!
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Raised in suburbia, now living on a 14 acre prairie homestead. Friday, January 30, 2009. Thanks for the topsoil! This is the current view standing at the end of our driveway and looking east into our yard. As you can see by the mighty high snowbanks, my husband has been doing a lot of shoveling this winter. Some farmers practice no-till and minimum-till on their cropland. I understand that sometimes they have a greater problem with insect damage when they don't till as much. I'm not a farmer, so ...Belie...
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From Where I Sit: February 2011
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From Where I Sit. Musings on Local Foods, Winter Growing, and meeting the predicaments our civilization faces. Saturday, February 26, 2011. But We Don't Buy Food From THERE. Actually, yes we do- THERE being Africa and the Middle East. A pound of conventionally raised food uses about six gallons of petroleum. Americans pretty much eat oil. And where are oil prices most influenced by? So, other than that the protests were kicked off by food shortages and killer food prices, why is this a local foods issue?
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HumbleRoots Heritage LiveStalk: Mulefoot Hogs, Bourbon Red Turkeys, Poulet Rouge Meatbirds: June 2010
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HumbleRoots Heritage LiveStalk: Mulefoot Hogs, Bourbon Red Turkeys, Poulet Rouge Meatbirds. Monday, June 28, 2010. Week 2 on ze farm:. Went to Easy Bean. With Joey on Tuesday and had a great time harvesting veggies. We picked spinach and broccoli rabe, washed scallions, and helped pack boxes. This week's box had broccoli, kale, spinach, broccoli rabe, lettuce, bok choi, and scallions - delicious! And of course there was more fishing! And everyone caught several fish - Azure and Aurelia especially were ha...
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Farmers [Should] Do That | Big Stone Bounty
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Local Food, Community, and Local Democracy in the Big Stone Lake Region of Minnesota. Farmers [Should] Do That. In FARMING and GARDENING. December 17, 2013. Discussion over on Facebook this morning about a District 27A candidate who believes farmers ought to be able to drain wetlands because they pay taxes on them (read the full post on Bluestem Prairie. Led to a critique of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association’s new billboard campaign: Farmers Do That. Credit: MN Corn Growers. Credit: MN Corn Growers.
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Northern Exposure | Big Stone Bounty
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Local Food, Community, and Local Democracy in the Big Stone Lake Region of Minnesota. Life on the prairie. January 10, 2014. It was a gorgeous day to be outside. After what seemed like a month of sub-zero temps, some of which was designated The Great Polar Vortex Event of 2014, it was ever-so-slightly. Freezing this afternoon, and it felt like time to cast aside the long underwear and cavort wool socks-less across the prairie. We haven’t gotten much snow this year, but what we have got has been re-...
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Solstice Celebration & Christmas Preparation | Big Stone Bounty
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Local Food, Community, and Local Democracy in the Big Stone Lake Region of Minnesota. Solstice Celebration and Christmas Preparation. December 21, 2013. Turns out I have. Friends who’ve killed cell phones this way (and one with a long-forgotten rotten egg–blech! And come to find out, their phones were killed by eggs. From the same flock. She has found a warm place to stay (when she’s not patrolling the barn or piles of buckthorn in the grove) between the basement windows we haven’t yet replac...Meanwhile...
