Edible Iowa River Valley #35, Spring 2015
Past Meets Present at Three Pines Farm
Past meets present at Three Pines Farm
For Kara Grupp of Three Pines Farm, the transition from scientist to folk school and studio founder...
Firetrucker Lights Up Ankeny
Brewing great beer is an art. That’s probably a sentiment that every craft beer lover has expressed at one time or another. For most craft...
Dram Shop: Time to Reform this Arcane Law
Among the more outdated and out-of-whack laws involving the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages is one called “dram shop.” The name...
How The Iowa Legendary Rye Whiskey Got Started
Distilled a Carroll County
Carroll County, Iowa, is synonymous with bootlegging. Folks around there are reluctant to give names, dates or...
Iowa Byways: The Lincoln Highway
The natural beauty, history and culture of the state shines in each of Iowa’s Byways, stretching from the Loess Hills National Scenic Byway...
Pizza Provisions at The Provender
Chef Chris Grebner’s 1941 Dodge brings classic wood-fired pizza and craft beer right to your own back yard.
It’s dusk on one of those...
Sharing the Harvest: A 20-Year Celebration of Iowa’s CSA Farmers
In 1993, couple Tim Landgraf and Jan Libbey feared what might happen when a neighbor proposed the expansion of his industrial hog operation...
Poor Man’s Feast: Smuggling Schmaltz
In the late 1950s, when our war was cold, the threats to our national security seemed largely rhetorical --- at least until The Bay of Pigs...
Food For Thought: The University of Iowa's First Themed Semester Focuses On The Food
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA’S FIRST THEMED SEMESTER FOCUSES ON THE FOOD
You might have noticed that food has become a hot topic of late. Farm...
Versaland: Grant Schultz and the Power of Permaculture
Grant Schultz and the Power of Permaculture
Grant Schultz is the farmer that inspired founder Suzan Erem to start SILT, an organization...
Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT) Plays Farm Matchmaker
Today there is a new breed of farmer who was not necessarily born on a century farm. They are not part of a long family legacy, their...
Local Slow Money Group Gets Off to Slow But Steady Start
It took nearly a year to gain the trust of locals, but Iowa’s only Slow Money investment club announced this month that they have issued...
