Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) – Buy a share in a farm for one year and receive a weekly box of what’s in season! Directories of CSA’s can be found here:
Land Stewardship Project
Edible Twin Cities
Farmers' Markets: Beautiful fresh produce at very reasonable prices
Minneapolis
St. Paul & Suburbs
Minnesota Grown Directory
Natural Foods Co-ops: Member-owned grocery stores featuring many local and organic foods
Twin Cities Co-ops
Statewide List of Co-ops
Eat Out at Restaurants Using Local Ingredients: For a list of restaurants that uses local foods, please see the directory section assembled by our friends at Simple, Good, and Tasty.com, the Stewardship Farm Directory, or Greenroutes. Please stay tuned, as The Minnesota Project is currently partnering with other organizations to create a new comprehensive directory of local food restaurants in Minnesota!
Community Gardens: Find a plot near you
Backyard Harvest Program: Pay an urban farmer to plant and tend an organic garden in your yard!
Technical Info on Various Garden Crops: Growing instructions for various garden crops: information sheets from UMN extension
A Basic Guide to the Biointensive’ Technique
The Sustainable Vegetable Garden, John Jeavons & Carol Cox
The Classic and Indispensable Guide for Intensive Food Gardening
How To Grow More Vegetables than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine, John Jeavons
Ready to grow all-year-round in Minnesota using a hoop house, row covers or other devices? This book will provide inspiration and answers.
Four Season Harvest, Eliot Coleman, rev. ed. 1999
Want fresh eggs? Honey? Goat milk?
With a permit, it’s legal to keep both hens and honeybees in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Find out more from Peat Willcütt, of Barnyards in Backyards, willc020@umn.edu.
