
Annual Directory Is Online!
Our annual collection of women-friendly and women-led businesses is now online and at newsstands. Bookmark this page. Pick up the magazine and hold onto the 24-page insert.

Climate Underground: Equity for BIPOC Farming
Editor's Note: Because of our self-defined focus on…

Creative Revitalization in Granite Falls
We engage as human beings first.

Sabine Engel: Bridge-Builder on Climate
Her role as a bridge between two countries enables her to see the value of an exchange of technical knowledge.

Naheed and Yusra Murad: Supporting Basic Needs
“It is not possible for someone to have a sense of physical, mental, and social well-being without having safe, stable, dignified housing.”

Nancy Marie Beaulieu: Protector of Treaties
She stated that the executive leaders violated the tribe’s constitution, which holds that leaders will conserve and preserve the tribe’s resources for the well-being of its people.

VIEW: Alicia Gibson on Guaranteed Basic Income
American culture relies on a myth of prosperity that justifies income inequality — we assume anyone can get ahead equally, which is not true if you look at cost of living and pay gaps.

The Hidden Costs of Food
Something has to change in the way that modern society produces and consumes food.

Shopping Thoughtfully: Gift-Giving From Local Entrepreneurs
Including the start of a gift-giving guide featuring local social justice-oriented entrepreneurs. Add your own recommendations.

Dani Pieratos, Harvest Nation
Our aeroponic farming system is designed to grow food in 90 percent less space than regular soil farming, with 90 percent less water and nutrients.

Q&A With Angela Dawson, 40 Acre Co-op
There are significant gaps in capitalizing and sustaining farmers in my community, and a co-op structure helps fill the huge gap.

Janiece Watts, Fresh Energy
Equity and environmental justice have been a focal point for Janiece Watts for more than a decade. She is now at Fresh Energy, a nonprofit focused on transitioning Minnesota to a clean energy economy.


For 2025 coverage, Minnesota Women’s Press earned a community leadership award, three photography awards, and four editorial awards, including for coverage of social issues and for our Spring 2025 “Know Your Rights” special section supported by Unidos MN. Our publisher was named Journalist of the Year by Violence Free Minnesota for gender-based violence coverage.