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Nevada Farmer Reinvents Herself with 10 Acres and a High Tunnel

November 08, 2013 Beverly Moseley, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Three years ago, Carol Huether, decided it was time to change careers and reinvent herself. So, she took her years of experience managing other people’s businesses and turned those skills into a successful organic vegetable and herb farm in Spring Creek, Nev. As she transformed her 10 acres into a...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

Quinoa: A Plant with a Lot of Potential

August 16, 2013 Tanisha Greene, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

In February of this year, the United National declared 2013 the International Year of the Quinoa. Yet, I’m sure not many people have even heard of quinoa, let alone know about its nutritional qualities. Originating from Bolivia, Chile and Peru around 5,000 years ago, quinoa is a grain that is...

Food and Nutrition

StrikeForce in Action with Nevada's Native American Tribes

July 17, 2013 Leslie Wheelock, Director, USDA Office of Tribal Relations

Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to participate in the National Congress of American Indian’s (NCAI) mid-year meeting in Reno, Nevada. The NCAI meeting was a warm and familiar place for me, as I recently left a position as NCAI’s Director of Economic Development to assume my current...

Rural

Secretary's Column: Partnering with Communities to Alleviate Poverty

March 29, 2013 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

At the U.S. Department of Agriculture we’re working hard to strengthen the economy across rural America – and in recent years, we have seen positive signs of growth. At the same time, we know that areas of high poverty still exist, and many of these are in our small towns and rural communities. In...

USDA Results Rural

Super-Sized Goldfish Pose Giant Problem for Lake Tahoe

March 07, 2013 Cheva Heck, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, U.S. Forest Service

Lake Tahoe, the country’s highest alpine lake, is no goldfish bowl. But U.S. Forest Service fish biologists with the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit said they’re well-acquainted with the big goldfish – several pounds and up to 4 to 8 inches long – living in the large freshwater lake along the...

Conservation

USDA Funding Helps Reopen a Town’s Only Grocery Store

February 27, 2013 Vicki Schurman, USDA Nebraska Public Information Officer

Recently, Rural Cooperative Development funding helped to reopen a local Nebraska grocery store. The story goes like this. The loss of a grocery store in a rural community can be a devastating blow, especially when it is the only, or at least major, source of local groceries. Not only do people then...

Rural

NRCS Snow Surveyor Collects Vital Water Data, Lives Dream Job

January 10, 2013 Spencer Miller, NRCS

Koeberle’s job carries her over mountains by helicopter and horse, snowshoes and skis. She has encountered grizzly bears, avalanches and wolves and visited ridges that few people have seen. Koeberle is a hydrologist and snow surveyor for USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and works...

Conservation

School Garden Turns into Living Learning Laboratory for Nevada Fifth Graders

December 21, 2012 Mark Williams, Nevada USDA Rural Development Energy Coordinator

“Can a School Garden Supplement a Community’s Food Supply in a Sustainable Way?” That was the question asked by Bob Gardner’s fifth grade class at Dayton, Nevada, Elementary School on Tuesday as students presented their science projects to classmates and adult guests.

Initiatives Energy Rural

Nevada Stronger Economies Together Team Spirit of Engagements Shows in Economic Blueprint

December 03, 2012 Kelly Clark, USDA Nevada Special Projects Coordinator and Public Information Coordinator

Nevada’s Stronger Economies Together (SET) Regional Team members met one last time Nov. 28 in Fallon, Nevada, to unveil the “Western Nevada Blueprint for Economic Development,” a plan that set goals to develop five targeted economic sectors for a 33,000-square mile region of Nevada across nine...

USDA Results

USDA Undersecretary Saddles up for Clean Energy, Business and Economic Development in Nevada

August 22, 2012 Kelly Clark, USDA Nevada Public Information Officer

With Nevada USDA Rural Development State Director Sarah Adler as his side-kick, Agriculture Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager hit the trail earlier this month in Nevada, kicking off a major job-creating clean energy announcement, meeting with business owners and talking to ranchers severely challenged...

Rural
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