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  • The thing Adrienne Tryan misses the most about living off the grid is her blender.

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  • Look around you and count the number of electronic devices you see.  If you're like most people, you can probably see a laptop, television, DVD player, ipod or a cell phone at the very least. 

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    Bryan Crigler can’t stand the sight of a canned mushroom. The self-proclaimed “mushroom snob” has a right to be picky about his fungi. He grows his own.

  • Community members browse through boxes and tables of free items during the first "Really Really Free Market" of the season May 16 at Sobieski Park in Winona, Minn. Community members are welcome to bring any items to the market that they no longer need and take anything from the market that they do need, all free of cost. (By Lisa Ziegler)

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    Walking through the Hornberg’s farm in rural Homer, visitors can almost point out the various stages of growth over the past nine years since Alisa Hornberg began her quest toward sustainability on her family’s farm.

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  • Agroecology could be defined as the science of sustainable agriculture.  Despite the efforts of the "green revolution" (that aimed at insuring food security on a global scale in the 1960s), famine has not been eradicated from the planet and the availability of high technological tools (e.g.: chemicals GMO's) may not insure the long term sustenance of farming systems.  The principles of food production may be easily generalizable however, the ecological diversity of geographic contexts in which agriculture takes place demand (necessarily) an adaptation of approaches to fo