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

Check out the video at: http://www.kxnet.com/video.asp?ArticleId=620582&VideoId=38677

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/

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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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.