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By Phil Sammon While many of their contemporaries across the country may have had their hands on game controllers this week, 1,700 junior high school students from Great Falls, Montana public schools had their hands on caddisfly and mayfly larvae, crayfish, snails, clams, plus a wide range of plants...

Written by Vicki Schurman, USDA Rural Development, Nebraska Ten USDA agencies and Nebraska’s four federally recognized Indian Tribes gathered earlier this month at what is believed to be the first ever Tribal Listening Session in Nebraska. Seventy-two attendees participated in the Listening Session...

When you think of locally produced food, you often think of vegetables but in Washington State, Native “farmers of the sea” are developing a thriving aquaculture industry. Like traditional farmers, these “sea” farmers sew and reap, but in this case the harvest is shellfish: oysters and clams.