• Small Batch Specialty Roasts: Walnut Grove’s Half Pint Coffee Co

    Freshly opened in June 2024, Half Pint Coffee Company brings a new coffee house to downtown Walnut Grove. The menu includes a full coffee bar featuring Half Pint Coffee Co’s freshly roasted beans along with baked treats, smoothies, teas and hand scooped ice cream.

  • Kernza Maple Shortbread

    Kernza Maple Shortbread by Beth Dooley Makes about 12 to 24 cookies The butter and maple [...]

  • Beth Dooley: Cooking Perennially to Bring Sustainable Change

    “I’m not that great a cook. I’m a really good shopper,” laughs Beth Dooley, James Beard award-winning food writer, author of more than a dozen cookbooks, Star Tribune columnist, and a regular contributor to MPR.

  • Three Bean Salad with Swiss Chard

      Three Bean Salad with Chard A colorful salad for your 4th of July barbecue! Using [...]

  • Celebrating the Thorny Parts: The Okee Dokee Brothers’ Climate Challenge in “Brambletown”

    “We tried over and over and over again to write a song about climate change. It’s really hard to do that, especially for kids,” explained Joe. “In the end the song ‘Trouble in Paradise’ reflected more than just climate change. It ended up surprising us that the song was about a world that was living by the narrative of separation.”

  • Kohlrabi and Cabbage Stir Fry with Pork

      Kohlrabi and Cabbage Stir Fry with Pork We declare it to be stir fry season! [...]