Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator As the growing season comes to an end, it is helpful to clean and put your garden to bed for the winter. A good fall cleanup provides multiple benefits for gardeners – it reduces weed populations and disease, minimizes plant insect pests, prevents rodent infestation, and eases the workload… Read More

Guest Opinion By Kayla Bergman, policy manager, policy director, Center for Rural Affairs As producers work to harvest their cash crops this fall, some will also be turning their attention to another.  Cover crops, which can be a grass, legume, or brassica, are seeded for both on-farm and natural resources benefits. Those benefits include reduced… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist It’s time to start thinking of Halloween and the treats I’ll serve this 31st to the witches, ghosts and goblins on Halloween. I love to see the little kids come to my door with their pillow cases filled with candy. Dads usually hide behind the garage waiting anxiously hoping… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune Minnesota’s regular waterfowl season opened a half-hour before sunrise on Saturday. I missed it. In my younger years, I would never have missed the opening of duck season, or pheasant season for that matter. Now days, it happens. It isn’t that I miss shooting a… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone It was interesting to watch some of the coverage of the funeral for Queen Elizabeth. I was about eight I think when she was crowned queen and it was one of the first things I can remember seeing on that then new device, the television. Of course, it was black… Read More

Thanks for support of  America’s Child’ From Mary Walsh and Trevor Solem of MAS     On behalf of the Minnewaska Chapter of America’s Child and the Minnewaska Teachers Association, we would like to thank everyone who donated to America’s Child at the Lakers’ football game last Friday night. Our hotdog stand raised over $1000 in… Read More

Minnewaska Musings By Paul Gremmels There are few places in this world that have more obvious seasonal tell-tales than Minnesota. We tend to take them for granted, except in the fall, when the changing of green foliage into oftentimes spectacular colors is impossible to ignore. As Minnesotans, we know what this color spectrum change foretells, but… Read More

View from a Prairie Home By Hege Herfindahl, Columnist My daughter, Ingvild, is a library director at Dodge Centre, Minn. Every fall she therefore goes to a library conference for a week. Last year the library conference was in Reno, Nev. This year it was in Chattanooga, Tenn. She always comes home from these conferences feeling inspired… Read More

Views from the Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist In my column a week ago about my trip to the Big Iron farm show at West Fargo, N.D., I mentioned being in line for noon lunch with a nice young fellow who was with Summit Carbon Solutions.   In exploring online more information about this forward-thinking solution for… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator Why would anybody go to the trouble of saving seeds? Sometimes seeds are in short supply, or maybe there is one particular variety you like, but you have trouble finding it each year. Saving seed is easy and you will always have a supply of your favorite flower and… Read More