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Students visit Child's Remembrance Garden
By Lori Sorenson
April 10, 2024
The Child’s Remembrance Garden in Luverne was established in 2022 to comfort families grieving the death of a child. And while it continues to meet that need, the garden also serves a broader purpose in the community for all visitors. It features walking paths, a pergola and a prayer wall of Sioux quartzite boulders where trinkets and notes can be placed. The garden is located in the northwest…
In the Garden
By Brenda Winter, columnist
April 03, 2024
One of the last pictures of my mom is of her in the garden picking zinnias. We actually used it for the cover of her funeral folder. She’s smiling at the camera, clippers in one hand and a bunch of fresh-cut zinnias in the other. We had no idea that 12 short weeks later, cancer would take her from the garden and from us. Her beautiful silver hair glistens in the sunshine. Her blue eyes twinkle…
Don't be tempted by warm weather to head start on garden
By George Bonnema, Luverne Horticulturalist
March 15, 2022
We are predicted to have a week of wonderful spring weather, and I am sure some of you really want to plant some seeds to get a head start for your vegetable garden. But I beg you to wait until early April. I don’t have a weather crystal ball, but I do have knowledge about starting seeds too early, resulting in spindly, weak plants you will have to “baby” to survive when you plant them in the…
How does my garden grow? Bigger than the shelf space in my pantry
By Lori Sorenson, editor
August 17, 2021
As a first-year gardener I’ve made plenty of rookie mistakes this growing season. … Planting too late in the spring, spacing plants too closely together, and not reading the directions on the seed labels. Actually, the garden wasn’t intended to be a garden in the first place. It started as a swath of dirt our neighbor turned over for us with his tiller. “How big do you want it your garden?” he…
Produce magically appears, but I now know where pickled beets come from
By Lori Sorenson, editor
September 22, 2020
My kitchen smelled amazing Saturday. The stovetop was a happy place of simmering aromatic good stuff from the garden. Not from my garden. I don’t have a garden. But you wouldn’t know it judging by the abundance of garden produce that accumulates regularly on my countertops and in my fridge. Cucumbers and green beans in the spring. Potatoes and tomatoes midway through summer. And squash in the…

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