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Article: farm school; The people behind these independent farms left their lives behind to feed themselves, their community and the environment. And now the Twin Cities is finally gobbling up their food. Meet three local organic farmers.(VITA.MN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 9, 2009
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Byline: MOLLY PRIESMEYER
Graze anatomy Sunshine Harvest Farm - Webster, Minn.
Mike Braucher puts his hand alongside his mouth and yells across an empty pasture. "Come, Boss!" he bellows. The 40-something Rice County farmer smiles sheepishly. "That's what my dad used to yell to the cows." Nothing happens. The wind blows across the pasture. Then, suddenly, a herd of cows sneaks up behind us, their giant hooves made silent by the bended blades of grass.
There are Black Angus cows and Shorthorns and Scottish Highlands -- or as I call them, brown ones and black ones. And they all, 31 in total, graze on the 30 acres of knee-high grass in the seemingly ...