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The Center for Rural Strategies recently launched a national education effort to combat unflattering and inaccurate stereotypes about rural Americans. The Center is a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve rural life by increasing public understanding about the importance and...
Local orchards in Southeast Minnesota had a problem. They had no market for the their number 2 Haralson apples. The Regional Sustainable Development Partnership’s Southeast regional group took on the challenge bringing together orchard owners and faculty at the University...
The Changing Rural Health Landscape: Impact on Rural Minorities and Tribal Governments - 9th Annual Rural Minority Health Conference of the National Rural Health Association will be held at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, on May...
The Rural Partners UPDATE is an electronic publication of the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center. Delivered to a subscriber's e-mail address each month, the UPDATE contains timely news and information about rural trends and resources in North Carolina and...
The Connecting Young People project, funded by the Kellogg Foundation, has created a pool of resources to support projects that are either intentionally focused on engaging young people in the community building process, or deliberately creating space within their institutions...
LANSING, Mich.- People and Land (PAL), a funding source for organizations advocating land-use education and decision-making in Michigan, recently awarded more than $1,000,000 in grants. Projects funded by PAL are designed to expand land-use decision-making capacity in rural and suburban...
The Woodland Native Americans in Minnesota were suffering – suffering with major nutrition-related health problems such as diabetes, cardio-vascular disease and obesity. So, in 1998, six tribal colleges came together at the first meeting of Woodlands Wisdom with University of...
"A New Age in Agriculture: Working Together to Create the Future and Disable the Barriers," is the theme of the 2003 World Congress of the World Agricultural Forum, May 18-20, 2003, in St. Louis, Mo. The Forum, which is convened...
Stubbornness is paying off for some southwest Michigan farms that still raise pork the old-fashioned way: Outdoors, where pigs can root around and sows can build nests to farrow their young. The Niman Ranch Pork Company, the nation’s leading marketer...