Austin farmer Tom Cotter talks with local media during a Governor Walz visit to Cotter’s Farm west of Austin Monday, October 19, 2020. With Walz and Cotter are Minnesota agriculture commissioner Thom ...

When you visit the Austin Family Farm in Paonia, it is immediately apparent that it’s an operation rooted in strong values of family, community and environmental stewardship. The Austin family has ...

Don Austin says, because of the harsh winter, he doesn’t expect his olive trees to produce fruit this year at the family’s farm Monday, April 2, 2018, near Fairplay. The Austin family farm, ...

AUSTIN-- When you think of locally grown products, you may think of peaches, beef or tomatoes. Now you can add seaweed. Aqua Dulce Farm in Southeast Austin is growing it for restaurants. Founder and ...

AUSTIN, Minn. — Soil health and land stewardship have been motivations for Austin farmer Tom Finnegan for decades. Finnegan and his family farm corn, soybeans, small grains, cover crops and sunflowers ...

Urban Roots is an Austin nonprofit that works with youth leaders to grow fresh food and build a community dedicated to achieving food equity. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Tour de Farm invites ...

The recent death of 96-year-old Dorothy Sheridan marks the passing of an era in Mansfield's history - an era that many current residents may not even know about. In the late 1800s and into the 1900s, ...

AUSTIN, Minn. ― Braden Greibrok, a senior at Austin High School, is this year's Minnesota State FFA Star in Agriscience. For his Supervised Ag Experience, Greibrok used data science programs to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A historic farm in east Austin was not spared from damage brought by severe weather that hit the area Wednesday afternoon, but staff said that, thankfully, the damage the farm did see ...

AUSTIN, TX (KXAN) — Innovative tech that could change the lives of Texans is on display at the Austin Convention Center. As part of this year’s South-by-Southwest Expo, technology companies brought ...

A rooster’s piercing crow urges a volunteer in overalls and rubber boots to hurry up and scatter cobs of corn. Flocks of chickens frolic through sprinklers like kids on a summer day. Here at the ...

Austin’s well-known for locally-grown, responsibly-made food products, but did you know that most of our farmers markets are conveniently hosted in parking lots? Don’t let the lack of greenery deter ...