Posted by Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin on August 27, 2007
As announced last August 16th on my blog entry, last Saturday a diverse group of people representing farmers, farmer organizations, 
and Father Dennis from St. Dominic’s Catholic Church met to look into the picture of diversity in food production that is growing around the Northfield area, not only the diversity of color in the faces involved but in backgrounds and sectors of the society working hard to see farmers succeed. There was room for food, conversation and a great opportunity for everyone to interact, tell stories and learn how other people think and do things.
We later checked on our poultry experiment where we have 15 egg laying gens and 25 broilers, we checked on the status of the 2 acres planted with black turtle beans on land that I rent from my neighbor, our onion production experiment, blue corn seed patch, and the general garden area. There was a lot of wind and water damage to report but we will still have an acceptable harvest if the weather does not play another trick on us.
A partial list of the people who came to the gathering include, Maria Sosa and Salvador Ruiz from Faribault, Jose Javier of Northfield, Father Dennis of St. Dominic Church, Amy Bacigalupo of the Land Stewardship Project‘s (LSP) Willmar office, Karen Stettler of LSP in Lewinston, Joci Tilsen, Program Director with the Minnesota Food Association, Collie Graddick, with the Pescitice Management Unit at the MN Department of Agriculture, all of these folks came with partners and kids, great food and a warm spirit to share.
Here is a picture with some of the kids after we partially succeeded in pulling them away from their games.
Posted by Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin on July 19, 2007
Nice article by Ben Goessling on yesterday’s Star Tribune South. Here is the link to the article, and here is the whole article if you just want to read it here.
Garden a seed for positive change
Photo by Jeff Thompson, Star Tribune
Humberto Gonzales watered vegetables in a community garden started by Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin in Northfield. Six Latino families are growing black turtle beans and onions, and several have started to sell crops to the Just Foods Co-Op in Northfield.
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Posted by Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin on April 5, 2007
I received a call last week from Ben Goessling, a business and sport reporter for the Star Tribune South, he had heard about the Latino Enteprise Center and wanted to meet and learn more about it. We set up a time and met at the Bitterweet Cafe by the Archer House in downtown Northfield. We had a nice conversation and it was not only a pleasure to talk with him, but he also wrote a nice article “A Latino Leader’s next step: make more leaders” based on our conversation.
You can read the article on the businesss section of the Star Tribune South or just read it below.
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Posted by Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin on March 22, 2007
I was very happy to see the article in the Northfield News today written by reporter Clarice Grabau titled Latino Enterprise Center aims to integrate community.
I will check into translating it for our Spanish speaking audience, but meanwhile, you can read it below. For more Northfield News articles, you can obtain an on-line subscription, just click on the link above.
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Posted by Griff Wigley on March 9, 2007
I’m helping Reginaldo with this website/weblog, but another hat I wear is co-host of Locally Grown, a Northfield-based, civic-oriented radio show/podcast with a very busy weblog.
Regi was our guest this week. That’s me on the left in the photo, with one of my co-hosts, Tracy Davis. (Click photo to enlarge.)
Click play to listen (30 minutes). Or see the blog post on this week’s show for more info on how to subscribe to the podcast.
and Father Dennis from St. Dominic’s Catholic Church met to look into the picture of diversity in food production that is growing around the Northfield area, not only the diversity of color in the faces involved but in backgrounds and sectors of the society working hard to see farmers succeed. There was room for food, conversation and a great opportunity for everyone to interact, tell stories and learn how other people think and do things.
Here is a picture with some of the kids after we partially succeeded in pulling them away from their games.
