Renewing the Countryside

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Hang Family

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A Family Affair Pakou Hang was in elementary school when her family started selling vegetables at the St. Paul Farmers’ Market. You can still find her at the Market, but she now has a degree from Yale University. Although Pakou and her six siblings are young adults, each pursuing his or her own career path, […]

Country Heritage Adventures

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Family Fun on the Farm Tourism combined with a farm/agricultural experience – or agri-tourism as it has become known – has been growing in popularity throughout the United States and, more specifically, in Minnesota with its rich and highly-textured rural heritage. Farm tours, bed and breakfasts, farmers markets, and other tourism enterprises can help to […]

Pointe of Joy Performing Arts Studio

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At the age of seven, Lora Jane Hyden knew she wanted to be a dancer. That’s when she got to take her first and only year of dance classes as a child, growing up in Eastern Kentucky. The single year of classes (singular thanks to the unpredictable coal mining industry from which her parents drew […]

Darthia Farm

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Horse-powered Homesteaders Gouldsboro, Maine To some, gliding over new-fallen snow in a horse-drawn sleigh might seem like a wintertime fantasy — or a scene from a Courier & Ives print. To Darthia Farm, a 50 acre homestead and certified organic farm in Gouldsboro, Maine, it’s a way of life. Owned by Cindy and Bill Thayer, […]