My Minnesota

It seems to me that Dee Davis’ (publisher of the Daily Yonder and president of the Center for Rural Strategies). review of White Rural Rag ...

A growing number of cities have or are eliminating single family zoning to increase density and make housing more affordable and cities mor...

I may be uncharacteristically optimistic in my thinking about this, but it seems to me that the world and its inhabitants may be in better s...

As I hope you know, April is National Poetry Month. I do not now, and were I to live forever would never, have enough time to discover and r...

The last place I lived in Massachusetts, I could launch my boat and be fishing the Atlantic ocean or I could drive about 20 miles inland and...

At least today the weather is a delight although, as usual, I could do with a gentler breeze, unless, of course, I’m trying to burn some of ...

According to the amphibian foundation, amphibian week began yesterday. The U.S. Park Service joins in the celebration. While working on th...

It's mid-January. We don't have a root cellar. Our winter Community Support Agriculture [CSA] shares ended several weeks ago. Our sp...

Before we answer the question, we have to update this week's  leaf color report . We still estimate local color to be less than 25%. Tha...

August is the month of the Sturgeon Moon Photo by J. Harrington Today is the day of August's full moon, the Sturgeon Moon. Yeste...

If you follow these pages at all irregularly, it will come as no surprise that we rarely find opportunity to thank Minnesota politicians. Fo...

It's the time of year when we used to see lots of Canada geese along and about the road edge going through the Sunrise River pools in th...

our township probably needs more signs like this Photo by J. Harrington To many Native Americans and First Nations people North Amer...

On the trees and covering the fields, last night's snowfall was beautiful. Although each flake is unique (think about that for a moment)...