Last month, I attended a workshop on cover crops for fruit and vegetable farms, hosted by Iowa State University [...]
Around the New Year is when I’m most homesick. I’m missing out family/friends get-togethers along with all the great [...]
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in mid-September, farmers and friends of farmers gathered together at Gibralter Farms near Iowa Falls [...]
We participated in Natural Living Expo in Des Moines last weekend to have our CSA Expo. We handed out the [...]
About 20 enthusiastic farmers/gardeners gathered together last Friday to learn how to successfully graft tomatoes. At the beginning of the [...]
Last summer, along with Iowa State University’s Department of Entomology, we hosted a field day at Field Extension Education Laboratory [...]
PFI staff were invited to a wonderful meal at our member farmer Gary Guthrie’s home in Nevada on Monday. Last [...]
Beef producers and enthusiastic eaters gathered together at Griffieon Family Farm in Ankeny for the beef tasting field day on [...]
Just a day after heavy storms hit the area in July, about 20 people gathered at Craig and Deb Fleishman’s [...]
The discussion of “what is local food?” may sound repetitive and futile. I too, used to think we shouldn’t get [...]
A few months ago, I stopped by Fresh Connections, a cooperative grocery store in Algona which sells wheat berries from a farm [...]
60+ guests, a dozen volunteers and chefs Donna Prizgintas and Scott Coldiron all gathered in Vesuvius Wood-Fired Pizza in Ames [...]
When I was reading a success story about the renowned local food establishment, L’Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin, one sentence [...]
A couple weeks ago, I attended the presentation by Ken Meter at Story County office on the impact of local [...]
On May 1st, PFI launched a new local foods project. People who expressed their interests in increasing their local food [...]