The outdoor medicinal garden at St. Thomas has plants to treat just about every disease you can name: Madagascar periwinkle and evening primrose for diabetes; coneflower… Read More

As a young boy, Yia Vang thought hot dogs were “the greatest idea ever.”   To Vang, a Hmong refugee born in Thailand and living in Minnesota, an American… Read More

Have you ever wished there was a restaurant that feels like your own dining room, with big tables like Thanksgiving night? A place where you… Read More

“It’s me on a plate,” said John Gleason, owner and head chef at Bap and Chicken.   Located at 1328 Grand Ave. in St. Paul’s Macalester-Groveland… Read More

The sweet aroma of a medicinal garden easily overpowers that known feeling of stepping into a bakery.  The Medicinal Garden is nestled outside a greenhouse… Read More

In 2016, youth involved with a North Minneapolis-based nonprofit called Appetite for Change created a music video called “Grow Food.” The five-minute video, (embedded below)… Read More

Yia Vang never enjoyed cooking growing up. He didn’t even enjoy it during college, when it was just a way to pay the bills while he pursued… Read More

Dig a hole, place the seeds, fill with soil.  Next comes the waiting.  You can give a seed everything it needs – sun, water, nutrients… Read More