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PrairieFare: Consider setting a health-promoting goal for the new year

Let’s think back a year. You might have had a banner year, a challenging year, a ho-hum year or, like most of us, a mixture of events. A new year often is seen as a fresh start with new goals or even life-changing resolutions from career shifts to health-promoting changes. Many people set ...

Dakota Gardener: Setting garden goals for the new year

Welcome to 2025! It is the time of year that we often hear the saying, “New year, new me.” Everyone is setting New Year’s resolutions. Now is a great time for gardeners to reflect on the past growing season and set their resolutions for this year’s growing season. First, if you keep a ...

Airport offers tips for holiday traveling

The week of Thanksgiving is the busiest airline travel time of the year, but there are ways to make your trip less stressful, according to Minot International Airport Director Jennifer Eckman. “During the holidays, we tend to have a lot of passengers who don’t travel on a regular basis,” ...

Harvest in progress: The Lord’s Cupboard reaps bounty from garden

VELVA – Hundreds of pounds of harvested vegetables from The Lord’s Cupboard’s community garden are helping feed hungry families in the Minot area. Volunteer harvesters have been picking twice a week for the past three weeks from the 28 different vegetables being grown in the garden, ...

Minot Symphony to hold annual Secret Garden Tour

Minot Symphony Orchestra will host its 30th annual Secret Garden Tour on Tuesday from 4:30-8:30 p.m. The annual Secret Garden Tour offers a glimpse into hidden, private gardens, showcasing unique landscapes, plants, herbs, yard art and more. The host garden addresses are printed on the ...

Rental program makes gardening more accessible

For those who are interested in gardening but do not have a place to do so, the Rainbow Gardens Association has land available for use through a rental program managed by the Minot Public Library. Deb Sisco is the treasurer of the board that oversees the program and shared some information ...