Grass Roots.........................A Tom Meinhover local Rural Minnesota web site that includes:  Locally Grown Vegetables, Apple Trees, Conservation, Flowers, Landscaping Materials, Politics, Family,  Community and Conversation.

Audio Welcome

Revisions to our Grass Roots Web Site:

Fall Apple Tree Sale 

Decorating for fall?? We a huge inventory of Pumpkins of all sizes and   colors,   Gourds, Grasses, and fall       perennials.

 Overview of our new Grass Roots at Rush Lake site.  It is going to be very cool.

 

Note from Tom: “I have had this Grass Roots for over 30 years and 20 of them have been at this Ottertail Location. As I get closer to 65 years old, it’s time to make the decision of what to do for the next 20 years. We have lost our lease on the Highway 78 property we are on now. What I have chosen to do is to move my business to our farm on south Rush Lake, right off hwy #54. We will be moving our White Office and Gift sales building (See below  picture) to it’s new location on Rush Lake the first week in Sept.

 

 

 

 

Onion, Sumac 
and 
Golden Rod

"......... end of the growing season, a view of Bruce Kennedy Onion field and Grass Roots Native Prairie setting at it's new location on Rush Lake, Ottertail Minnesota.

The Worlds largest Dragon Fly has left our Grass Roots Retail site for the last time on August 13 and is now located at the entrance to our new location on Hwy 54 at 360th Ave. We will be there for the rest our lives. (see below for directions to our new retail site)

 Ottertail County,  Minnesota

 

Dana Bahr has been growing local Vegetables for 3 decades here in West Ottertail County. Visit us at Grass Roots to get his produce.  We are rich with melons, squashes, tomatoes, corn and fall decorative pumpkins of many colors and sizes.

Open  this web site for pictures of you and your neighbors celebrating Ottertail City's annual event. Click on the 
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David  P  Schreier
President of the  NTPA
(National Tractor Pullers Association)
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" Thanks for coming to Smokin Iron 2007"
Tom Meinhover

 

  

Apples Trees     
Limited Selection of Minnesota Apples, Plums and Cherry Trees

 

$40

To Check our Spring Inventory of Bare Root Fruit Trees... Please wait until mid-Sept. and we will have the spring selection up.


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At our new  Grass Roots Site on South Rush Lake.  See Map

 

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 Smokin' Iron
Tractor and Truck Pull    June, 2007 New .....Grass Roots Photo Essay

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Thanks to the Ottertail Business Association and all the sponsors of  the
5th Annual 
Smokin' Iron

Awesome Video Clip
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The Empty fields of the 6th Annual Ottertail City Smokin' Iron.....Ready to go...Thursday, June 14, 2007

Tractor Pull
Friday Night  7:00 p.m.
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Crowd Pleasing Moment....A video clip
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June, 2007

New
Grass Roots
Photo Essay

2007 
Smokin' Iron
Tractor and Truck Pull

Visit this web site for pictures of you and your neighbors celebrating Ottertail City's annual event.

Opening Page
Getting Ready
4:00 p.m.
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Thanks to Terry and Cathy and the scores of Ottertail Volunteers who create this 6th annual Tractor Pull named.........Smokin' Iron 
Happy 5th Anniversary
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(Coming soon....keep checking)

 

Friday at 6:00 p.m.
Almost there

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Saturday Night
The Last Night
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Photo Essays
Life in rural Minnesota
1992-2006

 

Tom Meinhover's 
Grass Roots Garden Center 
"Where it is OK for men to be sensitive and talk about plants and other things."
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Ted Meinhover Blog

 

Visions and Essays for Ottertail's future.  
 2050
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Conservation and Environment

News Flash!!!!
".......Grass Roots is  accepting sponsor applications for the summer of 2007 parade season.  Be part of supporting our efforts to vision and then plan for quality of life and growth in East Ottertail County."
Tom Meinhover
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Grass Roots has the world largest Dragon Fly. He is the local symbol for clean environments.


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Invite him to your community celebration and we will come.
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Watch for our Annual Salsa contest
2007
Check out Photo Essay from 2004 contest.

 

How to Upholster a Tree Stump

By: Madelon Galland

Introduction/ Inspiration

The STUMP project began in 1999 on the sidewalks of New York City — the sidewalk plots where there are tree stumps are generally neglected spaces left to collect debris. The tree stumps reminded me of the childhood story, The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein, in which a tree has given of herself to the point of being diminished to a stump, but selflessly perks herself up to give to the last, by providing a seat for the beloved boy who is now an aged man. To upholster the sidewalk stump was a way to honor that which had been diminished, and bring it back into relationship with the neighborhood. I am interested by what happens in a public space when I demonstrate care for something which is not “mine”. I am still motivated to respond to the world in this way and am frequently nursing sick street dogs. To kneel down to the disparaged has been a tremendous opportunity for opening the heart. And it addresses the displaced and reductive state of our relationship to nature in an urban environment, or any so called civilized society. Wherever upholstering a tree stump is sited, it speaks to our relationship with what has been cast off and it is an activation and sublimation of dejected forms and neglected spaces.

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Department Web Links

 

University of Minnesota Apple site....
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Audio Message 
from 
                Tom on  Grass Roots Apples and Vegetables. to Grass Roots Special Services

 

Local Produce 

Tom Meinhover and associate growers have been supplying you with Local Produce since 1971
(we have already started our Tomatoes, peppers and lettuce.  We open in April

 

2050

A community Visions Grass Roots sponsored
site.

 

 

 

 

Grass Roots has grown fresh vegetables going back to 1972.  We are very proud of this for the life style it has given us and for the quality we grow.

 

We are currently picking all our crops:  from sweet corn, yellow melons, Muskmelons, onion, beans, potatoes, Herbs, tomatoes, .....etc.  Fresh picked daily.

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s.OtterTail 2050

This web page is sponsored by Grass Roots.  The site hosts essays authored anonymously   by local writers of vision.  
22 categories of our infrastructure have been selected.

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Grass Roots is a 30 year old family business, located in Land human  Minnesota.   We sell to our community: home grown produce, flowers, trees and shrubs, Gifts and landscaping materials.  We have  the most awesome customers to entertain us and give us income.  Thanks.