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Karen Ehrens

SNAP at farmers markets

Kate, thank you for sharing the article about SNAP being accepted at Farmers Markets, and especially for being one of the pioneering vendors to do so! Hats off to all!: Catherine's for Lamb, Cutbank Creek Garden, Elizabeth Eckert, Enders Farms, Prairie Produce, Ruso Ranch, and North Star Farms all located at North Prairie Farmers Market in Minot; Skyline Ranch Produce operating in Bismarck, Washburn, Hazen and Beulah, and Erbes Farm at the Great Plains Produce Association Farmers Market in Fargo

Posted by Karen Ehrens on September 1, 2010 at 5:54pm

Angie Oberg

School gardening project grant!!!!

This would be so amazing to see happen- school gardening projects. My kids aren't in school yet, but if anyone would like to encourage schools to participate, I would like to get involved. My biggest worry about sending my kids to school is the processed food I remember giving me such a stomach ache.

http://kyf.blogs.usda.gov/2010/08/26/peoples-garden-school-pilot-program/

Posted by Angie Oberg on August 26, 2010 at 6:07pm

Carmen Rath-Wald

Gardening - a pocket of calm

In the early 1970s, while Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner in South Africa, he kept a vegetable garden on prison grounds. Because he had no tools, he had to dig with his hands and his first plot was a rocky patch measuring just one yard wide. Mandela's garden supplemented his fellow inmates' scanty diet with fresh vegetables, but he also cultivated a place apart, there amidst the harsh relaities of prison life, he created a pocket of calm. Mandela says, "You must find your own garden."

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Posted by Carmen Rath-Wald on August 24, 2010 at 10:31am

Sue B. Balcom

Christy Brings Local to Life

Kate from Catherine's for Lamb was instrumental in bringing a chef to Bismark, Fargo and Minot to cook with local foods. Good Job Kate.
http://www.kxnet.com/video.asp?ArticleId=617895&VideoId=38538
Here is a video on her time in Bismarck.

Posted by Sue B. Balcom on August 22, 2010 at 7:16am

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