In recent weeks CURE has officially joined an exciting network of organizations across the country called the New Economy Coalition (NEC).   NEC members are imagining and building a future where people, communities, and ecosystems thrive. For a fundamentally new economy to take root, NEC members are working side by side to create deep […]

Federal crop insurance, the Farm Bill’s biggest agricultural program, has transformed from a key safety net for our nation’s farmers to a system that consolidates land ownership, shifts billions of dollars in public funding to large corporations, and harms the land and water. The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) today published a special report on federal […]

  This week Governor Mark Dayton’s office and Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson released a new proposal for a groundwater protection measure that aims to reduce elevated nitrate levels in drinking water. This proposal is the result of input gathered from seventeen public meetings across the state that engaged over 1,500 farmers, landowners, and other […]

My name is Anne Borgendale. I’m CURE’s Communications & Program Associate and I invest in CURE. For the past 25 years CURE has been working in the heart of rural Minnesota. One area of that work is connecting people to nature. That might sound quaint; however, a canoe trip CURE sponsored the summer I was 17 […]