News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Monday December 29th 2025
Stone”'s Throw Urban Farm produce stand on a Saturday at the Midtown Farmer”'s Market
Angela Schuster and Caroline Devaney displaying and selling beautiful vegetables at Stone”'s Throw Urban Farm produce stand on a Saturday at the Midtown Farmer”'s Market with. Stone”'s Throw Urban Farm is a 3-acre certified organic vegetable farm based on 16 formerly vacant lots in the Twin Cities (including on 15th Av and 28th St in Phillips).
Our mission is to develop as a farm that is an agent of economic and social change, empowering its owners, workers, and neighbors to grow nutritious food, employ and develop ecological farming methods, and work collectively to establish equitable and just systems of food and land access in the city. Â Our farm is structured as a limited liability partnership and for profit business, aligning with our belief that growing food should be a viable livelihood and that workplace decision-making power should be situated in people involved in the farm”'s day-to-day operations. Â As a member of Shared Ground Farmer”'s Cooperative, a beginning and immigrant producers”' cooperative, our food is sold through a 200 member CSA, several dozen wholesale accounts, as well as two farmers markets we attend each Saturday At Midtown Farmer”'s Market in Corcoran Neighborhood next to Midtown LRT Station in the SW quadrant and Mill City Farmer”'s Market located between the Mill City Museum and the Guthrie Theater:
704 S 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55401
Our farmers market stands are regularly stocked with salad greens, cooking greens, radishes, beets, carrots, peppers, and heirloom tomatoes (later in the season), along with a variety of other seasonal vegetables
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HARVEST TIME FOR GROWING THE BACKYARD
Growing the Backyard”'s Farm Stand at the Midtown Global Market
by Candis Mckelvy, member of Growing the Backyard Community Health Action Team
The original plan in 2010 for Growing the Backyard, a Community Healthy Action Team or CHAT involved since the early days of the Backyard Initiative, was to support local residents who wanted to grow their own produce and assist by helping them with the work. Farming is hard work. The original CHAT leaders of this team set out to work with families in the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood and provide them with fresh produce. There was also support for other neighborhoods to receive fresh produce.
The focus of this CHAT has continued to work to achieve this original goal though some of the activities have changed. Our activities for this year included reaching out to additional BYI community residents to grow food and join the farm stand at the Midtown Global Market. We also wanted to have youth sell produce they had grown and produce grown by Community Farmers.
Working with families in the Backyard includes communicating with local residents about the benefits of gardening and growing your own produce. These benefits include: increasing nutritional health, cutting down on the ingestion of pesticides, and helping to provide cost-effective items.… Read the rest “HARVEST TIME FOR GROWING THE BACKYARD”
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Yes, Hillary, And Then”¦?
Our Hillary has accused the Donald of “taking hate mainstream.” Oh, quite right. It seems the little boy-man suffers all the symptoms of affluenza, the nauseating narcissism of every known chauvinism. Sadly, a serious mass seeks salvation in worship of the false idol.
However, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, 25 million years old, is now dying before our eyes. So, cast your vote appropriately, please.
The size of Hillary”'s victory will determine the kind of president she can be. Right? Will she tax the rich in order to rebuild our nation”'s infrastructure? If so, every working person would benefit.
But, what?
Hillary”'s propensity to use nasty weapons is known. Indeed, over the past 15 years, US conflicts have cost perhaps a million lives, have resulted in many more millions of refugees, and have run up some $13 trillion in financial costs. So, prepare to resist another unjust war”¦please.
Even so, the “lesser of two evils” is for now a necessity, lest the “proto-fascist” prevail. Cast your vote appropriately. Please.
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