Comments for Minnesota Farmer http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com The musings of a Minnesota farmer stumbling through this digital age. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on On turning 60, June 12, 2013 by Janice Person aka JPlovesCOTTON http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/on-turning-60-june-12-2013/#comment-1321 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:15:15 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2672#comment-1321 Happy birthday!

]]> Comment on On turning 60, June 12, 2013 by lenrosen4 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/on-turning-60-june-12-2013/#comment-1320 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:13:00 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2672#comment-1320 60 is quite a milestone in life. I’m now 64 and share with you a similar approach to life and learning. In a little more than 6 months I will start receiving my old age security. I don’t feel old except for an arthritic left knee. And in terms of my mental acuity, am convinced that I am as sharp a tack as I have ever been…just once in awhile cannot remember the name of an actor or actress, or a favorite movie. I continue to be a voracious reader…not buying physical books anymore because I have no room to put them anywhere. Now I am borrowing from the library or downloading e-books to read. Keep writing. I believe formulating thoughts on paper whether physical or virtual is the best way to keep the mind young and plastic. I certainly enjoy what you write and appreciate your insights on both life and farming.

]]> Comment on Watching the rain by lenrosen4 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/watching-the-rain/#comment-1313 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:56:33 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2668#comment-1313 The weather you are getting in Southwestern Minnesota is very much consistent with the extreme swings we have experienced here in Southern Ontario. We had snow late in May and a heat wave the following week. When we get rain it is torrential. We had funnel clouds here in the Greater Toronto Area just a few days ago but today is just below 20 Celsius and gloriously sunny.

Hope the weather evens out for you during the rest of the summer. They are predicting a slightly cooler one here.

]]> Comment on Plant in mud? by Michael http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/plant-in-mud/#comment-1287 Tue, 07 May 2013 03:36:10 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2655#comment-1287 Wednesday’s forecast, 90% chance of rain. NO!

]]> Comment on Plant in mud? by Janice aka JPlovesCOTTON http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/plant-in-mud/#comment-1285 Tue, 07 May 2013 01:35:44 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2655#comment-1285 I’m keeping my fingers crossed for all of us to get a good start to our crop after a strange spring!

]]> Comment on Plant in mud? by lenrosen4 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/plant-in-mud/#comment-1284 Sun, 05 May 2013 19:51:46 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2655#comment-1284 We have the reverse weather pattern here in Southern Ontario. April was cold and very wet with snow even close to the last day of the month and now May has been dry and sunny continuously for the first 5 days. Every day it is 20 Celsius. Every day the barometer is over 30 inches. Winds are from the southeast, usually a harbinger of weather change but not this year. I actually rolled out the hose today to look at watering the garden in a few spots where the sun exposure has dried out the surface soils to several inches deep. Got to make sure my perennials don’t get short changed. In any case in 2 weeks we move from here to an apartment so my gardening days will be diminished to working with planters and pots. Good luck with getting the planting in. I don’t envy the position you are in when weather becomes unpredictable. And I expect that is what we are going to see more of in the 21st century as our atmosphere heats up.

]]> Comment on A five day wonder by Michael http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/a-five-day-wonder/#comment-1268 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:46:18 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2629#comment-1268 We were just caught in a small area that got it all. Others didn’t fare so bad, and others got it worse. There is still a large area southwest of here that is out of electricity and they have been for several days.

]]> Comment on A five day wonder by lenrosen4 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/a-five-day-wonder/#comment-1267 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:04:44 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2629#comment-1267 Post this on blog sites of climate change deniers. This is the same freaky weather that hit Toronto except yours is even worse than what we experienced.

]]> Comment on Where has all the farmland gone by Michael http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/where-has-all-the-farmland-gone/#comment-1252 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:19:18 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2618#comment-1252 Without local farms there is no local food. I’ve been watching Detroit as it turns empty and abandoned lots into gardens.

]]> Comment on Where has all the farmland gone by lenrosen4 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/where-has-all-the-farmland-gone/#comment-1251 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:16:03 +0000 http://minnesotafarm.wordpress.com/?p=2618#comment-1251 The land use challenge posed by urban sprawl requires a new dialogue between cities and the surrounding hinterland. In Toronto a greenbelt has been established by government to impede urban growth into neighbouring farmland. The city’s future growth is to come from urban intensification. This means higher density within cities. Should have implications for the local grow movement.

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