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Alternative Swine Report   Further Information

Apple Crisp Marketing - (1999-2002. Two-phase initiative to develop value-added apple products with support from UMN Carlson School of Management and Department of Food, Science & Nutrition)   Related Information, group in transition 

Apple Blossom Drive - Report available from SELCO library system - "Quality of life and a sense of place in SE MN"

Asset Survey II Report  - Report by Lacey Hartman  Available from SELCO

Badgersett Hazelnut Development - (2000-2004. Two-phase initiative to commercialize hazelnut production as a sustainable woody agriculture crop alternative; support from UMN COAFES & CINRAM)  http://www.badgersett.com  - Available from SELCO

Building Local Tourism Report  - (2001-2003. Building Local Tourism Marketing Capacity - UMN Tourism Center all-day local tourism development seminar and consultation; support for 7 area tourism initiatives to build local capacity to undertake tourism marketing research)

Centro Campesino (Financial Stability - Farmworkers)   Publications - Housing Survey by Ann Ziebarth - (2001-2002. UMN Center for Urban and Regional Affairs with UMN Community Assistantship Program student researching regional migrant housing needs)

Citizens for a Healthy Dodge County - Local Foods Brochure

Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) - Southeast CERT    Statewide CERTs   CAP report - Erin Brandt   Available from SELCO

Community Capacity-Building Initiative 

Community Energy Self-Reliance - (1999-2004. Local community group working on municipal wind energy model, possibly using hydrogen fuel technology, with backgroud support from UMN Institute of Technology and others)  CAP Student  State Conf. Summary  The MN Project: Publications: Lake City   Available from SELCO

Country Heritage Adventures Report - (1999-2001. Group of agri-tourism interests worked on marketing opportunities, strategies; supported by UMN Carlson School of Mgmt students)

Down Lighting Report Excerpt - (1999-2002. Community leader-directed effort to encourage use of down-lighting technology to conserve energy & protect night-time sky as a natural resource. Also provided consultation to UMN Facilities Services)

Earth Partnership for Schools Summer Institute for Teachers

Education for Sustainable Communities - (2001-2003. Introducing sustainability-based curriculum materials into area junior high and high schools through efforts of UMN Extension Service, College of Education , and a UMN Community Assistantship Program student)

Faces of Our Farmers - Online Photo Exhibit   2010 Report

Farm Stories Book Project -   Book Order Form   Discussion Guide   Press Release - (2001-2009. Sponsored author Gary Holthaus to write a book that reports on the state of agriculture in southeast Minnesota, driven by a vision of an ag/food system that sustains abundant biological diversity, attends to land, human and animal health, and provides opportunities for farm families to survive in place and smaller communities to flourish. Titled, From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know About Agriculture, the book was published in December 2006 by the University Press of Kentucky as the first in its series, Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism. ERC sponsored Holthaus in a series of regional discussions that explored farmers' experiences and insights into how we can create sustainable and vibrant land-based communities by adhering to fundamental agrarian values)

Featherstone Greenhouse Report - (1999-2000. Design of inexpensive, portable grow house model to extend growing season and increase vegetable diversity options. Advice, support from UMN COAFES faculty)   http://www.featherstonefarm.com/

Financing Sustainable Agriculture - http://www.sare.org/reporting/report_viewer.asp?pn=ENC01-062

Finding Food in Farm Country Hiawatha's Pantry 2001 Report (1999-2001. UMN-supported research assessing financial flow associated with food production and purchasing in southeast MN, and its effect on the regional economy)   Available from SELCO

Finding Food in Farm Country (FFFC) 2007 Expanded Meter Report   FFFC 2007 Meter PPT   FFFC 2007 Meier PPT

Food Business Development Plan Template

Food Choices (SE MN)  - (1999-2001. Land Stewardship Project initiative to design a major element of local food system featuring sustainably-raised food products; supported by a variety of UMN resources)

Food Network (SE MN) -   Brochure  Concept Paper   Excerpt Newsletter   Intern Newsletter   Report   http://www.localfoods.umn.edu/

Foods Working Group -   Draft   Reflections   Review   Year End Report

Forest Resources Management -   MN Forest Resources   Available from SELCO

Frozen River Film Festival Next Step group -   Project Poster

Full Circle Greenhouse - (1999-2002. Model development of energy efficient greenhouse to extend growing season for vegetable production, with consultation from UMN Dept of Horticultural Science)

Grocery Store Demand for Local, Organic Farm Products in SE MN

Hiawatha Fund - (1999-2008. Sustainable Finance for Rural MN - This long-term initiative was established to develop a base of sustainable financing to support in-region enterprises--farms, small businesses, entrepreneurs, etc.--by providing pools of accessible equity capital to replace a debilitating dependence on debt capital that often defeats efforts aimed at sustainable development)  Developing sustainable financing for in-region enterprises  

Hiawatha Valley Partnership -   Draft Study   Project Poster

Hokah Natural Resources and Recreational Sites -  website

Houston Nature Center Festival of Owls   Poster

Minnesota City Historical Association

Minnesota Grape Growers Association - Economic Impact Report -   MN Grape Growers Profile 2007   - UM Dept. Appl. Econ. (conducted the studies)

Networking for Future -   CAP report

North American Owl Center  -  Feasibility Study  website

Omega Cooperative Development Yr End Report (1999-2000. Development of an in-region producers' cooperative as defined by consumer-based research to determine consumer-based marketing trends)

Online Social Network for Producers and Consumers -  localfoods.umn.edu

Paradise Prairie Products Review - (2000-2003. Development of a community-based food business with support from UMN Carlson School of Management student and other UMN resources, including "By Design")

Project Get Outdoors - Poster

Readers of the Lost Art:  International Traveling Trunks

Renewing the Countryside - (1999-2001. Financial & editorial assistance on publication of book featuring rural success stories, including several from southeast MN, in support of UMN Northeast Regional Partnership)   website   Available from SELCO

Red Wing's Riverbend Market Cooperative - Website   Poster

Root River Market - (1999-2000. Community-based local food system project to open a new cooperative grocery store in Houston, MN, a rural community that had lost all its grocery stores owned by outside interests)   NextStep Case Study

Waste Wood Fuel Final Report - (2000-2002. Community-based MN Dept of Natural Resources & UMN College of Natural Resources research project focusing on recycling opportunities for region's waste wood supply)

Worth of the Woods -   Thesis Intro   Report 2003   Report 2005