Garden Goddess Network

The Garden Goddess is moving outdoors! After this last round of strong winds/rain and very cold nights, it would seem we're heading back into kinder skies. Most of the flats of veggie transplants, baby herbs and beneficial insect attracting forbes are out in the yard for a bracing beginning to their hardening off process. Empty totes weighted down with stones to protect tender tulips and other spring perennials have been removed. It's time to celebrate the sun outdoors and let it end the…See More

Today, the blessed rains are falling and I can feel the dry prairie soil sigh and accept this long awaited gift. Me too. It's a strange day for me, too. Yesterday, we delivered the last CSA boxes of our winter season. We are now heading into our sabbatical year; a year where we will not do our CSA come autumn. The plan is to focus on our goal to get a food hub established in our region. We want to expand the business, but it's hard to eek out the time for research and business plan writing…See More

Willmar League of Women Voters Speech- 04/09/12OpenRural America is colluding with those who would destroy it.That's the bad news. I'll get to the good news.I first became aware of this trend while researching a class I taught at the University of Minnesota, Morris- Social and Ethical Implications of Technology.This shouldn't have been a surprise. It's part of an overall trend in our society. Look at the election ads and corporate propaganda- human beings are not valued as persons, but as units…See More