Rural Living 2010

Rural Living There are many reasons why we call it home "I don’t think I would have learned the values that I have while living in the city." –Dane Hoffman

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Farm-To-School program creates a ‘buzz’ at WDC Schools DANA PAVEK WDC schools

Wadena-Deer Creek Public Schools students recently got a taste of fresh honey produced right here in Wadena.

As part of the Farm-To-School, Wadena honey producer, Ray Nicholson, shared his honey as well as his expertise on honey production with WDC students, who thoroughly enjoyed the “sweet” experience.

“Umm, this is really good,” said Desiree Seibert, a WDC senior, who munched on a Triscuit cracker dabbed with the fresh golden honey.

The Farm-To-School program brings healthy food from area farms to schoolchildren. So far this school year, WDC students have enjoyed corn on the cob from Gregg and Joan Goeden, peppers from Chuck and Diane Webb, and now honey from Ray Nicholson’s Natural Honey.

According to Sandie Rentz, WDC food services director, the program also teaches students about the path from farm to fork, and

instills healthy eating habits that can last a lifetime.

WDC Public Schools partners with the Wadena County Extension Service on the Farm To School program. Health and Nutrition Extension Educator Donna Anderson visits classrooms and teaches WDC students about the healthy benefits of farm-fresh products.

She also emphasizes the use of local produce in school meals and educational activities provide a new direct market for farmers in the area.

Nicholson said he’s thrilled to be sharing his honey with Wadena-Deer Creek youth as part of the Farm-To-School program. The 88-year-old Nicholson, who has a sweet disposition to match his business, has been in the honey business for 75 years. At the peak of his operation, he cared for about 250 bee colonies, however, today he keeps busy with 50 colonies. He also had a display for students to see the process as bees go from the flower to honey-making.

Photo by Dana Pavek “I think this is a good opportunity to edu- Ray Nicholson puts a “I love honey” sticker on WDC social studies teacher Scott cate our youth. I hope I can come back next Endres. year,” said Nicholson.

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Paulsons love their dogs BRIAN HANSEL

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Kevin Paulson started raising dogs for the best of all reasons — he loves dogs.

Paulson has a hard time remembering when he did not have dogs around him. He has used them when hunting ducks, pheasants and grouse.

At the present time the Paulson family has six dogs — all pointing yellow Labrador retrievers. There are Copper, Ginger, Caramel, Sandy and two one-year-old pups, Max and Gunner. Throw in three dog-loving sons, David, Keith and Nick — who have to own their own dogs — and you can see it is one big, happy family.

“I don’t know about the happy part because dad gets stuck doing all the chores,” Paulson joked.

The “chores” involve food, water, cleaning up and trips to the vet.

A female lab produces a litter in about two months. The dew claws have to be removed within the first few days. These claws, which grow on the inside of the leg a couple inches

up from the rest, can easily snag and rip on hunting breeds.

The pups need two sets of shots, the first of which is usually the cost of the breeder.

The pups should stay with their mothers for around eight weeks before they are sold.

Then it comes time to sell the pups. The buyer has to not only like the dog but be provided with papers and medical records.

While females tend to sell more quickly than males, Paulson has seen no difference in the hunting abilities of the two sexes.

There are plenty of hunting breeds to raise but Paulson gravitated toward labs because of their personalty and versatility.

Labs are the most popular breed of dog in the United States according to the American Kennel Club.

“They are just a low-key, friendly type of dog. Like Copper, when the kids were little they could go and jump on him and pull on his ears and he would just take it.”

Family life is only one reason for owning a lab. Pointers are good for upland hunting.

Retrievers are good for duck hunting. Labs are good for both. Paulson once had a non-

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Kevin Paulson’s crew of dogs and sons include, from left: Copper, Nick, Caramel, Gunner, David, Sandy, Max, Keith and Ginger.

pointing lab that was wonderful for grouse.

The reason I started out with the lab was the versatility of them for waterfowl hunting and also upland,” Paulson said.

The Paulsons do not breed dogs for a living and they have not made a fortune selling them but that does not seem to matter a lot.

“No, it’s not really a money-making

proposition but it is fun to have those pups around. It is just amazing how they have their own personality and quirks,” Paulson said.

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DOGS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 as what I have had the last few years you really see the differences between each dog,” Paulson said.

“I never really noticed that much personality difference before when you only had one dog around but when you have a bunch around you really see the personality of each, how different they are, just like people.”

While labs are known for a gentle personality in a pack situation like the Paulsons have, there can be some friction. Paulson has no trouble with

his males but the females have been on the feisty side for the last year.

“Ever since Ginger came into heat, and it happened to be the same time Sandy was in heat, they clash like oil and water,” said Paulson. “I think it is a dominant thing in the pack trying to establish the pecking order and we never let them establish that so its just an ongoing thing. I am getting to the point where I am thinking ‘OK, here you two go, you just settle it.’”

Paulson has one tip for people who want to breed dogs.

“Breed a dog that interests you,” Paulson said.

“If you are strictly an upland hunter maybe you want to go strictly to the pointing breeds. If you like to hunt waterfowl and upland then the pointing lab would be good for you. If it is just waterfowl then you could go to the lab or a Chesapeake Retriever.”

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A big garden is a rural tradition Schulz tends to plants with care, some of them more than 100 years old SARA HACKING

Her mother-in-law, Ruby Schulz, always had a huge, wonderful sarah@wadenapj.com garden on the farm, she said.

“That was when everyone Pioneer Journal gardening worked very hard on the farm and columnist Kyle Schulz savors they had livestock and everything, every moment of Minnesota’s brief so they had to have a big garden,” gardening season.

“You really have ... probably four, four and half to five months to really have this glorious presentation and then it’s gone,” Schulz said.

She enjoys her garden for its aesthetic qualities, the bountiful harvest it produces and as a connection to a special grandmother and mother-in-law.

Photo provided Schulz lives on Evergreen Lane Farm in rural Sebeka with her PJ gardening columnist Kyle husband, Tom. The farm has been Schulz uses shrubs to create inin her husband’s family for more terest in front of her rural Sebeka farm home. than 100 years.

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Ruby went through the Depression and was very concerned that her family have enough food, Schulz said.

Over the years, the size of the vegetable garden changed on the farm. Schulz and her husband have edged toward retirement and are interested in teaching. So the vegetable garden has gradually grown smaller.

“It’s gotten to be so that there’s as many flowers in the vegetable garden as there are vegetables,” she said.

The Schulzes still have plenty of produce to harvest for their table.

“I always feel that we eat like kings in the summertime,” Schulz said.

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She lived on a farm in the valley between Hitterdal and Lake Park.

Her grandmother, Lena Herfindal, was a very good gardener, she said.

Lena raised 12 children on the farm and had big vegetable and flower gardens, Schulz said.

“She worked, made all their clothes, yet she loved all this gardening,” she said.

Not only did Lena plant vegetables, she planted shrubs and trees, Schulz said. There were mountain ashes, weeping willows, birch trees and pine trees on the home farm.

“So I thought, wow, she really must have been thinking ahead,” Schulz said.

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GARDEN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 that are more than 100 years old.

“So they have a lot of meaning,” Schulz said.

“That’s the really, really wonderful thing about these plants.”

Schulz has always had a garden, and the example of her mother-in-law and grandmother inspired her to want to learn more about gardening, she Kyle Schulz said. But she’s been busy until now.

She got a degree in family and consumer science from North Dakota State University and was an Extension home economist for five years before marrying Tom. She raised three sons and has taught family and consumer science part time. She also has a degree in parent education and has taught parent education classes for Early Childhood Family Education.

She got a minor in art as well and has taught art classes.

Schulz finally made time to expand her gardening knowledge in 2007 when she took a master gardening class online through the University of Minnesota Extension. She studied about perennials, horticulture, lawn care, shrubs, trees, herbicides, soils, fertilizer, compost, entomology, and the whole gamut of gardening during the course, she said. You can’t possibly learn all there is to know about gardening, she said, but the big thing they show you is where to find information. She also participates in a blog for master gardeners.

That same year Schulz also began writing a weekly column during the gardening season as a way to keep learning. Schulz began her column for this year’s gardening season on March 20. “It kind of keeps me up to date,”

she said. “I have to keep on looking up things and getting background,” she said.

She gets her ideas from magazines, the master gardeners’ blog, gardening catalogs and questions people ask her, she said.

Gardening is a continual process because plants are always changing, she said.

“You have to do things over and over again,” Schulz said. “You have to keep fertilizing them. You have to keep deadheading flowers. You have to keep putting mulch on. And there’s always weeds that you will have to deal with.”

Schulz loves the satisfaction of making things look nice, she said.

She enjoys being outside and getting exercising while gardening.

“I’m outside most of the summer,” Schulz said. “My house may suffer in the summer, but that’s OK.” She thinks that’s true of any of the good gardeners in Minnesota. When the weather finally warms up it’s “just let me go,” she said.

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Community garden will bring the best of rural living to the city SARA HACKING

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Dane Hoffman wants the people of Wadena to have their own little plot of land to enjoy a taste of rural living.

The Wadena-Deer Creek student is working to create a community garden for his senior project for National Honor Society. He brought the idea before the city of Wadena parks board in February and is working on a location.

It’s important for people to know how to make their own food, he said.

“There’s that old saying, you can fish for a man for a day [and] he gets a meal out of it, but if you teach him how to fish he knows how to get fish for life,” Hoffman said.

He thinks the community garden is the same concept. It would give people a cheaper alternative to the supermarket and an opportunity to learn about agriculture and garden-

ing.

In order for the garden to become a reality, a few things need to happen, Hoffman said. A location needs to be finalized. Land at Fair Oaks Lodge is one place he is looking into. He thought the residents might enjoy using their skills by getting out in the garden again. There also needs to be some significant interest among people in Wadena in using the garden so the plot doesn’t sit there without being used, he said.

And he needs to address some of the questions the parks board raised such as pests like deer coming into the garden and possible vandalism.

Public Works Director Ron Bucholz also explored some different community garden contracts in Minnesota with Hoffman. The contracts deal with responsibility for maintaining the garden by those who use it.

“I think this would be a good idea to follow through on,” Hoffman said. “Maybe the community garden would stay for at least five,

six, seven years.”

Sliced tomatoes The garden would with fresh mozzarella provide people in and basil pesto are retown with the luxury ally good, he said. of having a garden Hoffman not only like rural people do, enjoys growing food, Hoffman said. He he enjoys cooking food lives 10 miles north as well. His grandof Bluffton in a nice mother on his mother’s rural community with side taught him to nice neighbors. He’s make sourdough bread live there his entire from scratch. His famremembered life and Dane Hoffman ily likes to experiment couldn’t think of betwith different types ter place to live, he of soups and pasta said. dishes.

Hoffman helps his mother with Hoffman plans to major in food the family’s garden and helps his science at North Dakota State Unidad raise crops such as hay, he said. versity.

He loves starchy vegetables like “I’d like to bring something new corn and potatoes. Other vegetables and innovative to the food industry,” his family planted last year include he said. “Either an idea or a new tomatoes, beans and kale. It was a food source for a hurting country.” tasty herb that got Hoffman most Haiti or Chile after the recent excited, though. devastating earthquakes are exam“I was more interested in getting ples, he said. basil in the garden,” he said. “I love “If I could find a food source for basil.” them that was culturally appropri-

ate and cheap and there was a nice way to prepare that food source, that would set them economically,” he said.

Hoffman has learned leadership through his involvement with FFA, he said. He’s learned that the blue corduroy jacket members wear means more than that they’re farm kids.

“It means that you’re an agricultural leader in your community,” he said.

He’s been involved with 4-H for about 11 years, he said. One of his main projects has been beef cattle.

His family raises beef cattle and Hoffman’s chores include feeding the cattle, maintaining the fencing, sorting cattle to keep the bulls and cows separate and helping with calving.

Hoffman is glad his parents raised him in rural area, he said. Doing chores teaches responsibility.

“I don’t think I would have learned the values that I have while living in the city,” he said.

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Donna Anderson, a local Nutrition Education Assistant, was the bridge between a District 2155 sweet corn program last fall and one that is planned this fall for the Wadena County Food Shelf.

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Donna Anderson made an interesting and surprising observation last September when fresh sweet corn was provided to Wadena-Deer Creek elementary students for the first time.

Some of the kids did not know how to eat it.

Corn on the cob might be as Minnesotan as Babe the Blue Ox, Lake Wobegon or the State Fair but that does not mean everyone enjoys it.

“It can be expensive if you’re on a limited budget,” Anderson pointed out.

Anderson began working with District 2155 food director Sandie Rentz in setting up an infusion of fresh produce into the diet of WDC students. In addition to sweet corn, the kids have enjoyed locally-grown bell peppers and honey and will be having chili produced by local bean growers in the future. It is an idea with some very important

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“The kids like it,” Anderson said.

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In talking with county officials this winter about the fresh produce program at WDC, Anderson bumped into a good samaritan who volunteered to plant and maintain an acre of sweet corn this summer but only for use by the Food Shelf.

Penny Nelsen of Staples has come up with the sweet corn seed and efforts are under way to have some 4-H kids pick the corn when it is ripe.

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Men’s Night Out Monday, April 19

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Health Screenings | Soup and Sandwiches Harmon Killebrew autograph signing - 5:00-6:00 p.m.

6:00-9:00 P.M.

Cardiology: What it means to you!

Panel of Medical Experts Guest Speaker, Harmon Killebrew

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