By Alisha Asleson Master Gardener As summer winds down and most berries fade from the garden, fall-bearing raspberries take center stage. Also known as everbearing raspberries, these vigorous plants produce fruit on the current season’s growth, allowing for a harvest in late summer through early fall. Fall-bearing raspberries can offer sweet rewards when other crops are wrapping… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda It is a good year for raising apples. A learning year, of course, as is every  year with apples—maybe not so much the apples themselves, the trees upon which they grow. With all the Amish neighbors surrounding us here, we now have a working apple relationship with a family, headed by a… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: I read your last article about school buses and flashing lights. Can you do a reminder on passing a school bus?   Answer: It is illegal to pass a school bus when its red lights are flashing and its stop arm is extended. If you are driving on a divided roadway,… Read More

Landmark Center Dan Broten A free blacksmithing demonstration will be held at the Landmark Center this Saturday, Sept. 13 from 12-4 p.m. Please join N.Y. Mills Bladesmith Jerry Hobbs as he performs step by step creation of a forged damascus steel knife and leather sheath. Samples from different stages will help show the involved process… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda “We who are about to die salute you.” That was what the gladiators said to the Emperor of Rome as they assembled in front of the royal box seats in the Roman Colosseum. And they were. About to die, that is. Beginning somewhere around 200 BC, fights to the death replaced the… Read More

To the Editor, The world we knew and loved has been stolen from us by a very smart, clever, devious, ambitious group calling themselves The Heritage Foundation to give some legitimacy to their existence. And they won. Not in an overnight raid of storm troopers at the gate but by decades of nibbling away at our… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: With school back in session, can you talk about school bus safety and what motorists need to know?   Answer: School buses have yellow and red lights that flash alternately to warn drivers they are stopping to load or unload students.   Bus drivers will activate flashing yellow lights at least 100… Read More

Landmark Center Dan Broten Two spaces remain available for five day pottery workshop at the Landmark Station building beginning today, Sept. 2 from 1-4 p.m. If interested, you may still jump into class #2 or #3 and have time to create several items using Stoneware Clay and a variety of assembly techniques. Artist Mimi Seykora… Read More

Jessica Carlson  Otter Tail County Master Gardener Intern  As summer fades and autumn approaches, many gardeners are already planning ahead for spring. According to the University of Minnesota Extension, fall is the best time to plant hardy spring-blooming bulbs in Zone 4A. Planting should be done once soil temperatures fall below 60 degrees Fahrenheit but before… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The Widow Fistula woke me up in the middle of last night in a dream and asked me: “How come you ain’t visited me?” Meaning, I guess, that she’s feeling kind of ignored. There was a time when I visited with and wrote about all the citizens of Boatville. Her included. One… Read More