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Lee Egerstrom is an Economic Development Fellow at Minnesota 2020. 

Delayed spring hurts growers, fresh produce customers

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

Amy Doeun, partner in Crazy Boy Farm near Rush City, and Mhonpaj Lee, organic farm manager of Mhonpaj’s Garden Farm in Oakdale, look at their still housed vegetable plants and know this April’s cold, snowy weather is hurting the best made plans for their farms, other local vegetable growers, and for all of their customers.

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Queen's Day is coming; Grab a Minnesota stroopwafel

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

National holidays anywhere make fine times to salute ethnic foods made right here in Minnesota. Put April 30 on your calendar for Queen’s Day in the Netherlands.

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Late winter weather mixed news for farmers

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

Coming off what looks like a record year for Minnesota farm income in 2012, weather watchers are concerned about what the cold, wet, snowy, icy April weather may be doing to this year’s agricultural prospects.

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Housing market recovering, not recovered

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

Upticks in various government measures and financial indices show that the U.S. economy continues to roll along in a recovery mode. But by one local measure it is still too early to say, “Recovered. Job done. Mission accomplished.”

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Parties that celebrate Minnesota progress

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

Minnesota summer festivals usually bring to mind brats, covered dishes and malted beverages. But New York Mills offers a much heftier main course. It’s hosting the 21st annual Great American Think-Off, June 8, which asks a timely political question.

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Baseball and farming: This is the year

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

It's not an ideal day for baseball, but that won't stop the Minnesota Twins from opening their 2013 season today at Target Field, which also means the planting season is fast approaching for Minnesota farmers. An uncertain weather forecasts also looms over the farming season's open, with prospects for both spring flooding and summer drought.

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The question behind Minnesota Food Council legislation: Why import when we can grow local?

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

A lot of different small-scale growers, academics and communities are tossing ideas into the collective pot, hoping to come up with a cost and fuel efficient model for creating local food systems in Minnesota. "It’s like the childhood story of making stone soup," said Clarence Bischoff, a farmer near Red Wing who is among people pushing for a Minnesota Food Council.

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SEIU Local 26 labor victory moves working poor closer to middle class

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

Renita Whicker, a security guard in downtown Minneapolis, raised three children while taking chances that all would remain healthy. Her job didn’t provide health benefits or pay enough for her family to afford health insurance.

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What Minnesota sites are worth saving?

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

The Preservation Alliance of Minnesota (PAM) is scaling back the number of endangered historic places it's tries to save each year. PAM calls its new program "Sites Worth Saving," which replaces its 10 Most Endangered Historic Places list.

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OPINION | Minnesota's past can inform Mayo investment

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

The Mayo Clinic and city of Rochester’s “Destination Medical Center” proposal now before the Minnesota Legislature appears to be the third giant Minnesota economic development investment of the past century that has the potential to change the state's economic future.

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