The Buttered Tin: Elevating Brunch and Embracing Care for Place with Sustainable Practices
At The Buttered Tin, you’ll find more than award winning pastries and a delicious brunch spread: care of place is central to their values and…
Stories from Minnesota
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Green Spaces and Healthy Communities with HealthPartnersGreen Spaces and Healthy Communities with HealthPartners
Caring for our natural places is an important part of caring for the people who live near them. Research has shown there’s a connection between…
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Friendly Fronts: Transforming Neighborhoods Through Community-Building and Outdoor Space ActivationFriendly Fronts: Transforming Neighborhoods Through Community-Building and Outdoor Space Activation
When Max Musicant and his group of neighbors left their apartment building when the fire alarm went off, he quickly realized something: he didn’t know…
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The Good Acre: Supporting Minnesota Farmers and Building a Resilient Food System Through Local PartnershipsThe Good Acre: Supporting Minnesota Farmers and Building a Resilient Food System Through Local Partnerships
“Food from here, for here” is the driving force behind The Good Acre (TGA), a nonprofit food hub that links local growers & food producers…
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Resources and Renewal: An Iron Range StoryResources and Renewal: An Iron Range Story
For over a century, the Iron Range of Minnesota has been a center of mining activity—creating jobs and driving economic growth. And the Iron Range…
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Voices of Upstream with Kieran Folliard, founder of the Food BuildingVoices of Upstream with Kieran Folliard, founder of the Food Building
Join a special video Voices of Upstream for a conversation with Food Building founder Kieran Folliard about how this iconic Minnesotan cares for our natural…
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Become an Upstream Care for Place FellowBecome an Upstream Care for Place Fellow
Do you love where you live? We are looking for individuals who have stories to tell about their natural Minnesota place, and how they care…
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Star-chitecture returns to the Minnesota prairie after 300 yearsStar-chitecture returns to the Minnesota prairie after 300 years
In the Dakota language, “earth lodge” is maka tipi. But it’s also a verb meaning “they live.”
Lisa JohnsonJim Rock’s great-great grandparents made the thousand-mile trek…
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How Waste Reduction Keeps Our Water and Community Safe with HealthPartnersHow Waste Reduction Keeps Our Water and Community Safe with HealthPartners
The health of our natural places has a big influence on the length and quality of our lives. As the largest consumer-governed, non-profit health care…
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Meet the 2023 Upstream Artist FellowsMeet the 2023 Upstream Artist Fellows
Upstream is thrilled to announce the selection of our 2023 Upstream Artist Fellows. Upstream Artist Fellows are 13 artists from a variety of mediums who…
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Building Traditions and Preserving Habitat with NWTFBuilding Traditions and Preserving Habitat with NWTF
Tom Glines remembers one of the first times he went on a turkey hunt. It was in the fields and woods near Lanesboro in southeastern…
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Caring for Butterfly Habitat with Upstreamer Debi KohlhardtCaring for Butterfly Habitat with Upstreamer Debi Kohlhardt
Debi Kohlhardt may not have been born in Minnesota, but this Jordan, MN mom loves where she lives. Debi, who went to college in Moorhead…