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Plant now for a bountiful fall harvest

Boost your fall garden harvest with some midsummer plantings. Fill vacant spaces left in the vegetable garden after harvesting lettuce, spinach, and other early maturing crops. Expand your edible plantings to other vacant spots in flowerbeds, mixed borders, and containers. Sow seeds of beans, ...

From farm to consumer

GLENBURN – Forrest and Desiree Carlson bought four chickens after moving in 2020 onto the family farm near Glenburn that Forrest’s father, Donald, had operated until retiring. The four chickens have multiplied to become about 140 chickens, with 100 more coming yet this spring as the ...

FOR THE TREES: Sweet syrup to ring in spring

“What better way to celebrate the end of winter than enjoying sweet, homemade maple syrup?” Spring can be an exciting time to start getting outside after a long, cold winter in North Dakota. And what better reason than if there is sweet maple syrup as an end result? While we don’t have ...

Let’s Cook: The Tasty Road of Tapioca

Working in assisted living centers in the activity department has given me some fine insight and great hints for cooking, baking and entertaining. Think about it. We have many people who retired to these centers with a vast amount of range time. They have seen it all! From cooking on wood ...

LET’S COOK: Branching out for Lydia’s birthday

It became apparent from an early age that Lydia, our daughter, was not about to be in the background of our family texture. The first sign of this came when she asked at the age of three how we would be decorating her birthday tree! Over the years, in addition to our traditional Christmas ...

Family brings Filipino culture to Crosby

CROSBY -- Jen and Ernesto Maximo have brought a new concept to the community of Crosby. On Tuesday, the Maximos will open North Dakota’s only Filipino restaurant in the state in Crosby. Jen Maximo is a speech therapist at Divide County High School who moved to Crosby in 2014 from ...