Because everyone deserves access to healthy, safe, and affordable food.
Just a generation ago, most people in Minnesota had a one- or two-degree connection to a farm. Whether by growing up on a farm or enjoying fresh vegetables picked that day from a neighbor down the road or at the local market—people generally understood where their food came from and how it was grown. Dr. Randel Hanson is restoring that awareness through cultivation of the Sustainable Agriculture Project (SAP) at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where college students and community groups experience working the land and growing food they will eat. A few students are paid; others take part as …