James McWilliams, author of the new book with the Northfield-oriented title Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, has a guest post on the NY Times Freakonomics blog titled Do Farmers’ Markets Really Strengthen Local Communities? It got me thinking. And wondering whether his argument could be applied to locally owned retail stores. (continued)
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
It was 45 degrees, raining, and windy when I took this handful of photos at 8:30am on Saturday at the Palmer Fossum tractor auction. (See related blog post here.) Without…
The August publication of a 2007 paper titled The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness by Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson has created a bit of a media storm recently. Wolfers…
Our show took a ‘bye’ last week, using the Twins’ schedule and Tracy’s vacation as an excuse. We were back at it this week, though, meandering (intelligently, of course) from topic to topic (Victor! MTT! CIP! Open meeting laws!) without a guest to anchor us.
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Bowing to pressure from civic-oriented footfall fans, the Northfield City Council will entertain a motion at the start of tonight’s meeting (see Tracy’s blog post for a summary) to allow…
The Friday Memo, written by Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and various department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. The Friday memos are…
I took these photos of the 1st St. reconstruction through the middle of Way Park last week, intending to promo the Friends of Way Park’s spaghetti fundraiser dinner on Saturday.…
The Sogn Valley Art Fair runs this weekend, today and Sunday. Paula Granquist’s Art Zany radio show on KYMN featured the event yesterday morning with guests (L to R) Dawn…
Northfield Entertainment Guide (NEG) publisher Rob Schanilec, BAMG, was doing his usual "What’s happening downtown Northfield this weekend" gig (sponsored by the NDDC) on KYMN on Friday morning with Jeff…