Yellow Birch Hobby Farm cultivates the good life
GRAND MARAIS—Over the quack of ducks and cluck of chickens, Erin Blegen is preparing for another spring at the small hobby farm she started with...
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Cascade Vacation Rentals launches Project: Food
by Rae Poynter
Food waste is a big problem. So is hunger. It’s estimated that Americans throw away $165 billion worth of food—or 35 million tons—every year. For...
Northern Farmers Face Challenges, Find Satisfaction
by Shawn Perich
When you think about the Northern Wilds, farming is not the first thing to come to mind. After all, this is the land of tall...
Ruffed Grouse: Dinner on the Wing
by Shawn Perich
Around our house, we don’t eat a lot of chicken during September and October. Instead we have fresh ruffed grouse for dinner as often as...
Putting Local Food on the Menu
by Maren Webb
This is the season of bountiful harvests here in the Northern Wilds. Our short growing season can be challenging, but when September arrives, gardens, farms...
When you control the dinner menu
by Shawn Perich
They say that indentured servants during the early days of New England used to complain that they were only given fresh lobster to eat. During...
10 Tips for Sustainably Foraging Food
Foraging for wild foods can be a useful tool to engage with the landscape, but with all its hype in today’s mainstream media—from Facebook groups...
Blueberries: North Shore’s Tasty Treat
“It was a trip of experiences, not one of conquests,” writes Gary Fiedler. Fiedler was on an ambitious seven-month solo canoe journey through the Boundary...