Month: June 2020

One Vegetable, One Community is back for its fifth year in the Crookston area.  However, this year Polk This year’s vegetable is peas.

Polk County Public Health’s Kirsten Fagerlund said One Vegetable, One Community encourages healthy foods, gardening, and enhances the community. “One Vegetable, One Community is a growing initiative,” said Fagerlund. “This year it is county-wide through Polk County. It’s encouraging all the people in Polk County to increase their healthy foods, grow excitement about gardening, and enhance the community. This year we’re featuring the garden beet and encouraging people to take it outside, be physically and mentally healthy, and grow local food.”

Fagerlund said the garden beet packets can be picked up in each community. “Each local community has different places,” said Fagerlund. “In Crookston, they are scattered throughout different locations – some of the local pickup food boxes downtown, at Hugo’s, Wonderful Life Foods.  They can check our social media, Facebook pages for information.”

GROWING GARDEN BEET

• Begin early sowings when the soil has warmed to 45˚ Plant seeds about .5” deep and about one inch apart. Allow 12-18 inches between rows.
• Hand thinning is almost always necessary. The seedlings should be thinned to one to three inches apart.
• For a continuous supply of greens and small tender beets, sow seed at two-week intervals until eight weeks before regular heavy frosts are expected.

HARVEST & STORAGE

• Beets should be ready to pick around 54-60 days
• Remove leaves, leaving about an inch of the stems – don’t waste the leaves, enjoy in a salad!
• Store roots in a plastic bag in the refrigerator for up to three weeks
• Wash before cooking.

The Crookston Chamber Board gathered over their lunch hours on Thursday to work on the Welcome to Crookston signs at the city’s north and south ends.  The signs are located along Highway 2 across from Ed Widseth Field on the north end and across from American Crystal on Highway 75 on the south end.

Board member Aaron Meyer said the Chamber Board was giving the signs a little TLC. “We’re just helping out the community anyway we can,” said Meyer. “We noticed the signs here on the north and south ends of town need a little TLC, so we’re giving them a little TLC.”

Board member Christopher Christian said the board wanted to help make Crookston look the best it can. “We’re just out hearing picking the weeds,” said Christian. “Trimming around the outside, making sure they look nice. We want Crookston to look the best we can, so we’re just out here cleaning it up and making the signs look the best we can.”

While the group hasn’t been able to meet very much with COVID-19, Christian said they used email to plan making the cleanup happen. “It was a group effort,” said Christian. “We had talked about it through email. Our meetings have been kind of tricky with COVID going on, so through email we’ve been communicating with one another. Just picked a day, made it happen, and here we are.”

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Governor Tim Walz today signed Executive Order 20-72, activating the Minnesota National Guard to provide safety and protection for Clay County and surrounding areas during demonstrations planned in North Dakota in the wake of George Floyd’s death. 

“The Minnesota National Guard stands ready to provide protection for all Minnesotans,” said Governor Walz. “While Minnesotans turn their attention to rebuilding our communities and reexamining racial inequities in the wake of George Floyd’s death, our administration is committed to providing protection for our neighborhoods, businesses, and families in order for those meaningful conversations to happen.”

Local law enforcement authorities are aware of credible threats of violent activities during demonstrations planned in North Dakota that could impact nearby Minnesota communities, and have requested assistance from the Minnesota National Guard to help provide security and preserve public safety. The National Guard Adjutant General will work with local government agencies to provide personnel, equipment, and facilities needed to respond as necessary.

The State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) is currently activated and has implemented the Minnesota Emergency Operations Plan. The SEOC will support this mission in addition to its current support of security operations in other communities and the State’s COVID-19 response.

This Executive Order is effective immediately.