HDT Team
- May 22, 2020
- 3 min
The New Farmers Market
Minnesota residents craving fresh produce won’t have to wait long, as farmers markets are beginning to open across the region — with some...
HDT Team
- May 15, 2020
- 4 min
Farm to Home During Stay at Home
Some bad news has arisen concerning food production. As the coronavirus pandemic has supply chains disrupted, farmers and producers are...
HDT Team
- Apr 3, 2020
- 2 min
“Log In At Eco Camp”
Eco Camp registration is now open! If you’d like to learn more about a specific camp, visit our website for more details. You can even...
HDT Team
- Jan 31, 2020
- 3 min
Collective Energy = Wow
The energy of a collective makes pursuit of big ideas possible. This is true for Back to Basics: without the effort of a few for months...
HDT Team
- Dec 6, 2019
- 5 min
Holiday Gifts – Made from the Heart
As we’ve discussed in previous blog posts, there are a lot of great alternatives to material gifts – volunteering/donating, giving...
HDT Team
- Nov 1, 2019
- 3 min
Favorite Fall Recipes
As the fields turn from gold to brown and the leaves shake off their final layer of foliage, now is the time to revisit the recipes that...
HDT Team
- Oct 28, 2019
- 2 min
Minnesotan Fall Agritourism Destinations
Agritourism: It’s kind of a made-up word, right? Some people use “agritainment,” instead. (Agriculture and tourism. Agriculture and...
HDT Team
- Oct 21, 2019
- 2 min
Garden Wrap Up
The garden in all its splendor. Photo taken in early August. The last CSA shares were distributed out last week, (nothing but rave...
HDT Team
- Oct 2, 2019
- 2 min
How to Have Carrots Year Round
If you’ve been keeping up with the HDT harvest, you’ve seen that this year has been particularly good for us. We’ve been inundated with a...
HDT Team
- Sep 20, 2019
- 2 min
It’s Garlic Plantin’ Season
Cash and Dave showing off their garlic bounty, harvested in mid August. A quick internet search of “garlic benefits” gave in 303,000,000...
HDT Team
- May 31, 2019
- 3 min
Mental Health in Rural Agricultural Communities
People who have chosen to work in the farming and ranching communities have a persona of being solitary, private folk. Stoic would be an...
HDT Team
- May 21, 2019
- 1 min
Turtle Talks Podcast – Episode 23: Lab Grown Meat vs Real Meat OR All Meat is Not Created Equa
In this episode we talk about the growing “faux” meat market and what it could mean for climate change and agricultural practices being...
HDT Team
- May 14, 2019
- 3 min
Exploring The Relationship between Food and Mental Health
It’s 3:30 in the afternoon and you’re getting a bit antsy. Nothing’s going right and you’ve still got a few hours of work before you can...
HDT Team
- Apr 12, 2019
- 1 min
Turtle Talks Podcast – Episode 21 (Part2): Foraging 101, a Q&A With Travis Grimler
We continue our discussion with local foraging enthusiast, Travis Grimler. In this episode we talk about the legality of foraging,...
HDT Team
- Dec 24, 2018
- 3 min
HDT Holiday Traditions
Happy Holidays from the staff of Happy Dancing Turtle. We want to share with you some of our favorite traditions and recipes that we’ve...
HDT Team
- Dec 3, 2018
- 1 min
Turtle Talks Podcast – Episode 15: Herbs & Spices, A Primer
You would be forgiven if your thoughts immediately wandered over to the the eleven herbs and spices used in the “finger-licking good”...
HDT Team
- Nov 29, 2018
- 6 min
Conscious Consumerism – Better Meat Choices
This month, the theme we chose for media content was “Conscious Consumerism.” If you’ve been following along, you’ve seen advice on...
HDT Team
- Nov 9, 2018
- 1 min
Grateful Gathering 2018
On Thursday, November 8, we gathered at Bites Bar and Grill for our annual holiday party. Our crew ate scrumptious hors d’oeuvres,...
HDT Team
- Nov 7, 2018
- 2 min
Four Reasons to Buy Local Turkeys
There are so many reasons to purchase your turkey from a farmer that is local. You can easily find out the conditions the turkey was...
HDT Team
- Sep 27, 2018
- 4 min
Harvest Recipes
In Minnesota, we have our four seasons, and at the end of the bright, sunny, summer, leading into crisp, sweater-weather, fall, we are...