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Extension Master Gardeners are part of the promise for a bright future at Centro Tyrone Guzman Intergenerational Learning Community.
Laura Frerichs of Loon Organics Farm in Hutchinson helps Extension spread understanding of food safety rules.
“We want the focus to be on the 235,000 people buried here and their families,” says Trevor Blake, assistant gardener at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Blake took the Master Gardener core course taught by U of M Extension in order to better understand challenges facing the 436-acre resting place for U.S. military veterans.
Growing fruits and vegetables is how many new and younger farmers get started farming. But gaining the knowledge can be tough for growers of a crop like pumpkins, for which there have never been research trials in Minnesota. Until now.
Food entrepreneurs like Lee Vang attend hands-on University of Minnesota Extension training, bringing in their own products to test for potential food safety hazards.
Tessman and Christiansen credit their 4-H club for giving them needed support after their father was killed in an accident when they were children.
Urban youth learn about growing food and meet people who live on farms. Rural youth learn photography and video skills and meet people who live in cities. Kids raised in the suburbs and in Indian Country discover projects that mean something to them. All of them learn that there are many ways to be a Minnesotan, together in 4-H.