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By doing this work, Harvest Nation assumes a receiving role within the large movement known as Rematriation, the returning of seeds to their mother land to be reunited with the earth and its people.

It is time to put the power of our unique community into statewide action.

Saint Paul started a great process of improving public safety practices five months after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis.

If policing were a business, we would have reallocated its funding to proven strategies that work decades ago. The time has passed for small tweaks. Transformative change is necessary.

Americans put a lot of energy and political investment into an inflated capitalist system that is only a sliver of how our communities work.

Something has to change in the way that modern society produces and consumes food.

Including the start of a gift-giving guide featuring local social justice-oriented entrepreneurs. Add your own recommendations.

Our state has 54 million acres of landscape — nearly 26 million of which is agricultural. That large agricultural base has a climate impact.

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.

There are significant gaps in capitalizing and sustaining farmers in my community, and a co-op structure helps fill the huge gap.

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.

Today Minnesota is home to a network of 45 co-ops, working with more than 200 organic farms.