CROOKSTON, Minn. — Fifty years after American Crystal Sugar was bought by farmers, a small group gathered in the Gold Link Senior Center in Crookston to learn not only the company’s history but the ...

Swiss chard may have been the first plant I grew successfully. I lived in Austin, TX at the time and had started a garden because it seemed like the thing to do. After almost two decades of growing ...

In the start of the 20th century, the area papers stated how the Milk River Valley was prime ground for sugar beets. The paper also stated three things were needed to raise them: a farmer, train and ...

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An overview of the history of sugar beets in the Red River Valley. This short story chronicles the history of growing sugar beets in the Red River Valley. The story dives into how farmers hired ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. These are real “Instructions For Persons Using Prisoner of War Labor in Your County” communicated to beet ...

Brown, dusted with dirt and irregularly shaped, sugar beets aren’t blessed with the same smooth shape and ruby color as their cousin, the red beet. However, they have an important part in Orange ...

In about 1911, chaos erupted in Mexico: a revolution and civil war that left thousands dead or homeless, roads and structures damaged, and people’s lives irretrievably disrupted. The situation got ...

Good Food The History of the Square Meal, Beets, Community Seafood Abigail Carroll talks about the history of the square meal in the US, Mark Bittman breaks down beet salad, and Community Seafood ...