Food

40% of America’s food is wasted. This website is all about helping you save, with a dinner party food calculator, meal planning and shopping list so you buy just the right amount, and a [...]

The U of M College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources hosts a plant disease lab. Bring in diseased plant material - leaves, branches, etc - and they can disagnose it.

The University of Minnesota College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences is home to the extension service soil testing lab. Land owners can send samples to be analyzed for a small fee.

Located in Stelle, Illinois, Midwest Permaculture offers permaculture design courses in a small rural community setting, and a variety of online resources. Contact: Email: [...]

Facebook group for Minnesota foragers.

A Facebook group (ask to join) for people wanting to learn about wild edibles and foraging.

The Beez Kneez is a pedal-powered honey delivery business that manages 150 urban and rural hives. As a result of two confirmed pesticide kills of its hives, BeezKneez formed an advocacy campaign [...]

The Met Council has produced a Local Planning Handbook to help communities update their local comprehensive plans in the areas of land use, transportation, water resources, parks and trails, [...]

The MN Landscape Arboretum features more than 1215 acres of gardens, model landscapes, and natural areas. It hosts classes for adults and children on horticulture, garden design, pollinators, [...]

Frogtown Farm, located in the Frogtown neighborhood in St. Paul is a massive community farm that host community events, classes and workshops, and is home to permaculture inspired landscape [...]