CROOKSTON, Minn. — Fifty years after American Crystal Sugar was bought by farmers, a small group gathered in the Gold Link Senior Center in Crookston to learn not only the company’s history but the ...
Swiss chard may have been the first plant I grew successfully. I lived in Austin, TX at the time and had started a garden because it seemed like the thing to do. After almost two decades of growing ...
In about 1911, chaos erupted in Mexico: a revolution and civil war that left thousands dead or homeless, roads and structures damaged, and people’s lives irretrievably disrupted. The situation got ...
An overview of the history of sugar beets in the Red River Valley. This short story chronicles the history of growing sugar beets in the Red River Valley. The story dives into how farmers hired ...
It always has been amazing to me how two words spelled differently are pronounced the same way — like “beat” and “beet.” Beats me — and I am not fond of beets. Beets are a two-part vegetable — edible ...
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. These are real “Instructions For Persons Using Prisoner of War Labor in Your County” communicated to beet ...
Brown, dusted with dirt and irregularly shaped, sugar beets aren’t blessed with the same smooth shape and ruby color as their cousin, the red beet. However, they have an important part in Orange ...
The modern beet descends from the ancient sea beet. News that thrilled my inner biologist. Imagine the sea beet, swimming the Indian Ocean. It must have slithered the depths, dodging eels, sharks and ...
The modern beet descends from the ancient sea beet. News that thrilled my inner biologist. Imagine the sea beet, swimming the Indian Ocean. It must have slithered the depths, dodging eels, sharks and ...
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