Crop Production

Did Jesus manifest himself in Newport woman's potato chip? [PHOTO]

Carol Isaak found comfort in what she took to be a sign from above that everything will be alright. The administrator of the Potato Association of America isn't so sure.Newport resident Isaak, 67, cracked open a bag of ripple-style Clancy's chips the night before Easter. She had just gotten her snac ... More >>

Bushel Boy vs. Perfect Circle: comparing greenhouse tomatoes

Two greenhouse tomatoes: Which is tops?​My tomato plants have flowers, but, alas, no fruit. It's just a little to early in the growing season to savor the juiciness of a homegrown Sweet 100 or Cherokee Purple. In anticipation of August, I had a hankering for tomato-cucumber-chickpea-red onio ... More >>

Jethro Tull

Two greenhouse tomatoes: Which is tops?​My tomato plants have flowers, but, alas, no fruit. It's just a little to early in the growing season to savor the juiciness of a homegrown Sweet 100 or Cherokee Purple. In anticipation of August, I had a hankering for tomato-cucumber-chickpea-red onio ... More >>

Forest Mushrooms feeds growing need for fungi

You might call it a shroom boom

Keith Ellison introduces bill to ban Atrazine

​It's Earth Day, and Rep. Keith Ellison is taking note by announcing that he's introducing a House bill to ban a herbicide that's long been the target of environmentalists: Atrazine. The news comes ahead of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Panel meeting next week tha ... More >>

Caribou Coffee promises 100% sustainable coffee by 2011

​Caribou Coffee may be a distant second in coffee production in the nation, but the Minneapolis-based company plans to be first when it comes to ethically grown beans. But it depends on how you look at it. Caribou announced today that it will be the first major U.S. coffeehouse to sell 100 perce ... More >>

Café Scientifique: Food Safety and Food Defense

​Caribou Coffee may be a distant second in coffee production in the nation, but the Minneapolis-based company plans to be first when it comes to ethically grown beans. But it depends on how you look at it. Caribou announced today that it will be the first major U.S. coffeehouse to sell 100 perce ... More >>

Talk of the Stacks: Tom Robbins

​Caribou Coffee may be a distant second in coffee production in the nation, but the Minneapolis-based company plans to be first when it comes to ethically grown beans. But it depends on how you look at it. Caribou announced today that it will be the first major U.S. coffeehouse to sell 100 perce ... More >>

Film Highlight: North By Northwest

​Caribou Coffee may be a distant second in coffee production in the nation, but the Minneapolis-based company plans to be first when it comes to ethically grown beans. But it depends on how you look at it. Caribou announced today that it will be the first major U.S. coffeehouse to sell 100 perce ... More >>

Café Scientifique: Honeybees & Human Health

​Caribou Coffee may be a distant second in coffee production in the nation, but the Minneapolis-based company plans to be first when it comes to ethically grown beans. But it depends on how you look at it. Caribou announced today that it will be the first major U.S. coffeehouse to sell 100 perce ... More >>

National Public Health Week Film Festival: King Corn

​Caribou Coffee may be a distant second in coffee production in the nation, but the Minneapolis-based company plans to be first when it comes to ethically grown beans. But it depends on how you look at it. Caribou announced today that it will be the first major U.S. coffeehouse to sell 100 perce ... More >>

This Week in Produce at the Wedge

The Hot Dish Preview: 11/21/08

Apple Guide: best uses for MN-grown varieties

Midwest corn production vs. Gulf of Mexico ecology

Jon Langford and Rico Bell

The Birth of Coffee

Ramsey is a coffee hot spot

Some of the world's best java comes through the Minnesota town

Did the rose-colored glasses come with the kevlar helmet?

Some of the world's best java comes through the Minnesota town

The Evils of Ethanol

Some of the world's best java comes through the Minnesota town

Revolving Door to Keep Spinning

Some of the world's best java comes through the Minnesota town

Norm's Sticky Fingers

Some of the world's best java comes through the Minnesota town

In Pork We Trust

Coleman and Dayton partner up to bring home the bacon

A Rice by Any Other Name

The University of Minnesota's genetic research on wild rice goes against the grain

Dough Boys

At the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, commodity traders are an endangered species

Seeds of Dissent

Is the debate over genetically modified crops being nipped in the bud at the state capitol?

Growing, Owing, Gone

The farm crisis was supposed to be over a decade ago­when the TV crews packed up and the celebrities went home. But in places like Renville County, farmers have been harvesting hard times ever since.