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Sustainable Food: Earthen Path Organic Farm (video)

CUpS: Stories Oak Center, Minnesota. You might say organic farmer Steven Schwen plows a different path through life; one built of a strong connection to the land, without many of the trappings we normally would associate as necessities of modern living. It was a deliberate choice that he made. Schwen believes that we, as a [...]

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Growing Interest in Farmers Market (video)

CUpS: Small Bites Have you noticed the growing interest in farmers markets? Well, the official stats have just been released, and their numbers are growing, robustly. In the Portland area alone, there are 5 new farmers markets this year, 37 in total! Last year, while filming at the Earthen Path Organic Farm, in Oak Center, [...]

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Genesis of the USDA’s National Organic Program

How the Federal Government came to regulate the organic industry Part 4: My previous column on the history of organic agriculture wrapped up with a look at the burgeoning national market that emerged during the 1980’s. Counterculture back-to-the-landers and die-hard traditionalist farmers were raising crops and livestock without agro-chemicals and growing numbers of consumers were [...]

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