Farmers and environmental groups want Minnesota to put a lid on pesticide-treated seeds
Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay’s strategy to improve water quality?
People trying to clean up the Mississippi River to protect the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico could learn from those working on the Chesapeake Bay.
CO2 pipeline proposed across the Upper Midwest
Carbon dioxide pipelines are coming; but do we want them?
Collaborating with nature
Members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa share their generations-old farming practices.
Wildly Successful Farming: AGATE book review
And a conversation with author Brian Devore
The Driftless: the land and humans
Here in the Driftless, it’s a never-ending cycle: surface water infiltrates into the soils and karst, becoming groundwater that quickly flows from nearby springs to become surface water again.
More than Honey
A conversation with Laurie Schneider, founder of the Pollinator Friendly Alliance
Creating new food systems
A new generation of small growers is stepping into the complex world of farming. They hope to change our fragile agricultural systems.
Green Bay project promises answers for thorny questions about agricultural runoff
An experiment with before-and-after data could provide focused information about how well various practices work to reduce nutrient pollution of streams and lakes.
Small farmers adapt and invent
Small farmers meet a myriad of challenges with ingenuity and grit.