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Brassica cover crops as biofumigants

  Last month, I attended a workshop on cover crops for fruit and vegetable farms, hosted by Iowa State University [...]

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New Year’s Lunch with Gary Guthrie

  Around the New Year is when I’m most homesick. I’m missing out family/friends get-togethers along with all the great [...]

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Pork tasting field day at Gibralter Farms

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in mid-September, farmers and friends of farmers gathered together at Gibralter Farms near Iowa Falls [...]

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Natural Living Expo

We participated in Natural Living Expo in Des Moines last weekend to have our CSA Expo.  We handed out the [...]

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Tomato Grafting Workshop at The Homestead

About 20 enthusiastic farmers/gardeners gathered together last Friday to learn how to successfully graft tomatoes. At the beginning of the [...]

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The Buzz About Best Pollinator Practices

Last summer, along with Iowa State University’s Department of Entomology, we hosted a field day at Field Extension Education Laboratory [...]

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Farmer’s Table

PFI staff were invited to a wonderful meal at our member farmer Gary Guthrie’s home in Nevada on Monday. Last [...]

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Beef Tasting Field Day

Beef producers and enthusiastic eaters gathered together at Griffieon Family Farm in Ankeny for the beef tasting field day on [...]

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Weed Control: A Balance between Steel and Herbicides

Just a day after heavy storms hit the area in July, about 20 people gathered at Craig and Deb Fleishman’s [...]

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What is “Local Food?”

The discussion of “what is local food?” may sound repetitive and futile. I too, used to think we shouldn’t get [...]

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Cooking wheat

A few months ago, I stopped by Fresh Connections, a cooperative grocery store in Algona which sells wheat berries from a farm [...]

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Delicious Evening

60+ guests, a dozen volunteers and chefs Donna Prizgintas and Scott Coldiron all gathered in Vesuvius Wood-Fired Pizza in Ames [...]

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Local foods project – three months later

When I was reading a success story about the renowned local food establishment, L’Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin, one sentence [...]

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more on eating locally

A couple weeks ago, I attended the presentation by Ken Meter at Story County office on the impact of local [...]

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Eating locally

On May 1st, PFI launched a new local foods project. People who expressed their interests in increasing their local food [...]

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