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Lawmaking in Minnesota is moving rapidly this year, and Carlton County farmers are pushing to make their voice heard.
Several members of the Land Stewardship Project (LSP) met in Barnum on Feb. 17 and planned a call for area citizens to join in a Family Farm Breakfast and Lobby Day at the Capitol April 13. Affordable health care, expanded meat processing services, augmented farm-to-school programs, and soil enrichment are key issues.
The LSP is a statewide, private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that recently celebrated 40 years of working to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland,...