How Twin Cities’ Co-ops & Co-op Partners Warehouse Are More Important than Ever BY JACK HEDIN Founder and Owner of Featherstone Farm There have been extraordinary changes in the regional farm and food scene since Featherstone Farm and I got started in Southeast Minnesota over 25 years ago. And this is as it should be;… Read More →
Yogi – Organic Echinacea Immune Tea 16ct April 19, 2024 Yogi Organic Echinacea Immune Tea 16ct UPC 0-76950-45010-3 Yogi is issuing a voluntary recall of the Organic Echinacea Immune Tea 16ct due to a raw material sample of Echinacea that tested above the acceptable limit for multiple pesticides. While there is no health or safety…
Homegrown Minneapolis is a unique collaboration between city government and citizens that is breaking down barriers to healthful food access through both policy change and grassroots projects. You may not know it, but Homegrown has probably already touched your life in some way. Read on to learn more about the good work they do and… Read More →
Co-op is community. Our Change Matters program seeks to exemplify our mission, generating and donating thousands of dollars to local nonprofit organizations. For more than 40 years, Change Matters has partnered with organizations doing remarkable things—from building community gardens and feeding families in need, to bringing fresh, local produce into local classrooms. Our commitment supports…
Wedgeshare grant allocations The WedgeShare Committee met in late October to allocate $50,000 in WedgeShare grants to the organizations on the slate, based on the votes cast for each organization during the 2015 election period. Those recipients and amounts are as follows: The Aliveness Project – $5,000 Appetite for Change – $7,650 Compatible Technology International… Read More →
In October 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly announced our nation’s first food-waste-reduction goal: a 50 percent decrease in food waste sent to landfills by 2030. This will be no easy feat. Based on the EPA’s numbers, nearly 18 million tons of food waste will need to… Read More →
The mid-May sun beats down on Josh Belanger’s 7th-graders as they match up kale and broccoli plants with a map of the new raised beds on Beth El Synagogue’s south lawn in St. Louis Park. They coax lettuces and tomato starts out of their pots, gently separating the roots and tucking them upright into the… Read More →
In Minnesota, hunger can be hard to recognize. Besides the fact that we spend most of the year bundled up in bulky winter wear, hunger is just not a visible problem here in the way we,ve been programmed to think about it. Here, it doesn,t mean children with bloated bellies and hollow faces dying on… Read More →
The Beez Kneez Minneapolis, Minn. When the phone call came in, Kristy Allen and Erin Rupp’s hearts sank. A friend and beekeeping hobbyist in the Kenwood neighborhood had alerted them that the bees in her backyard hive were suddenly and inexplicably dying. With dread setting in, they rushed over to their own hive housed at… Read More →
