If your work intersects with ours now or could in the future, please email us at glbw@umn.edu and describe what you would like to explore together. The GLBW Theory of Change is that through thoughtfully-designed, highly-engaged collaborations with agricultural practitioners across the region and across sectors – new, creative channels of policy, program, and market…
Staff Erin Meier is Director of Green Lands Blue Waters. Previously, Erin served for 14 years as Executive Director of the University of Minnesota Southeast Regional Sustainable Development Partnership. She has over 20 years of experience and training in sustainable agriculture, local food systems, food access, natural resource conservation, clean energy, community engagement and development, and…
Over GLBW’s first decade, a strong framework of regional collaborations was established around five types of CLC cropping strategies: agroforestry, cover crops, perennial biomass, perennial forage, and perennial grains. Our work is still framed by these strategies with a few minor shifts to better reflect our current foci with active partners and to update descriptive…
GLBW Network Priorities To realize the full potential and myriad benefits of CLC farming, it must be practiced widely across the agricultural landscape. GLBW has identified these priorities as a roadmap for multiple stakeholders (“We” below) to achieve landscape-scale change in the Upper Midwest. 1. Expand CLC crop and systems development and research We continue…
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