Grass Roots.........................30 years old
A Tom Meinhover Neighborhood Rural Minnesota business with products for our Recession Economy

 Check out the New Grassroots video!

$25 Apple Trees.....order now for delivery next spring......

New List of Bare Root Fruit Tree Now Posted

Enter Here

 

TOM'S Grass Roots at the Farm
The Mission
'To help you do Art with the flowers and plants I grow'

 

E-mail Tom

View
 Meinhover Gluesing Christmas Card

 

Sweet Pea Currant Tomato
Organic

62 days. We instantly fell in love with this delightfully tiny tomato. Its miniscule leaves, flowers and 1/4 inch, ruby red fruit are the teeniest we've seen. Deceptively big on sweet, curranty flavor, they are a treat in salads, as a garnish or right off the plant by the handfuls! Sweet Pea is a charming, indeterminate plant with a low, spreading habit that lends itself to container living and especially to hanging baskets. Available as a plant.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frugal Special for Spring 2010 Vegetables

$1.00 a 4/pac

Tomato Plants

(.25 a plant)

Offer Good as long as Supplies last.

'This is a very good deal....we all deserve one this once and awhile'  tom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Greenhouse Completed and we will sell 4 pacs of flowers and Vegetable very cheaply.  I will compete with the BiG BoX prices on this size plant.  Tomatoes are going to be .25 each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Info site from University of Minnesota for Apple Trees

 

 

Free Wireless Available at our Grass Roots Farm.  Bring your lap top, find one of our setting areas and just log on.  New Gazebos for you to set in.  It may be Fall but is you need a 'get-away- come on out.

$25 Apple Trees.  Order now from our selection of Bailey Nursery recommended  apple trees.  Bare Root Trees ordered now will be at our Grass Roots in late April........a very inexpensive way to start an orchard.

 Fresh cut Sod available everyday. 

Fairy Land Gift Store is being worked on right now to be ready next spring.  Debbie has had a Gift Store for 30 years. The longest continuously operating Gift store in our lakes area.  Welcome to your new site and building  Deb.

Check out the New Grassroots video!

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Email Tom

Pam helps you Design your Flower Spaces.  
Thanks for working with her.  We all know how awesome she is!

Pam is at Grass Roots:

Friday:  12:00-6:00
Saturday:  9:00-6:00
Sunday:  10:30-6:00

 

 

Fountains at Grass Roots

Featuring Sculpture of 25 Years

Mark Dragan

All Natural Stone

Basalt Columns

Multi-colored optional Lighting

Continuous Misting

One of a kind, Pre-order

Contact us at Grass Roots 
Visit Grass Roots to See Models.

 

Thanks to our neighbors who helped with our "Barn Raising' of our greenhouse.  It was a great first project for our Bartering Store.  Bartering as a way to exchange goods at new Grass Roots on Hwy 54

On Sale Now!

Tom says:  "...don't plant an apple tree, plant an orchard!
Buy Apple Trees from me for $40 NOW."  Call 367 2503 or e-mail

All Varieties Available

New Grass Roots Retail 

 Evolving - Rush Lake
 Open Now At This Location. 

 

Grand Opening 
of new site:
 Spring of 2010

 Register Now:  Be the Grass Roots Customer
 that officially open the New Grass Roots at our Ribbon cutting
 .  Enter

 

   

Our solution:  grow the economy,  New Grass Roots, New Location, 
"Grass Roots Ottertail is a rural Minnesota 
 neighborhood business. You have to live 
here to take advantage of what we do, but 
visit when you are in the neighborhood."
Tom Meinhover		 ".....this is a great year to start doing a garden again!" tom    "join me!"  2009 at the Farm    
Special Thanks to J. Maxwell Parish, a native son who has returned from restoration work in New
Orleans. His skill is using old Farm Lumber to create facades for our greenhouse is pure art. His business will be old building salvage and restoration. And making use of vintage materials.  Visit him at our Grass Roots, he has a very interesting story.

         Register Now:  Be the Grass Roots Customer that officially open the New Grass Roots at our Ribbon cutting on June 30 (Maybe!).  Enter
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"Our new Grass Roots Retail Greenhouse is pictured on the left.  It should be up and running by Mid-May.  Until then visit us at our production site on Rush Lake.  Our spring crop is ready and I am proud to say that I have done an excellent job as a grower this year ."

Tom


Grass Root Location


 Locally Grown Vegetables and Plants, Apple Trees, All Home Grown Flowers and Perennials, Landscaping Materials,  Rush Lake Center for Non-Violent Change, Family,  Community and Conversation, Neighborhood Coop, World' Largest Dragon Fly, Photo - Essays of Community, Smokin'n Iron Web Pages, Bartering, Herbs, Cut Flowers, Political Seminars, Native Medicinal Plants, Nature Trials, Paint Ball for Adults only 
"We have a huge inventory of food plants you can plant for summer eating and fall freezing and canning"  Tom Meinhover

Recession Economy Advantages
At
 Grass Roots 
Farm and Garden Center
Fruit Trees

Bare Root Trees On Sale Now:  $20

"You should have planted these years ago...but now you made the decision to plant a couple of Apple Trees.....we have 24 varieties of  Fruit Trees.   Spring Price is $20
 for Bare Roots Apple Trees.  
Call me:  367 2503"  
         We have a good supply but not unlimited!

The greatest advantage!!

Fresh, Local Produce has been one of our Hallmarks for over 30 years.  Dana Bahr picks Tons of melons each season along with a full menu of vegetables; from Tomatoes to Onions.

WE HAVE HUGE INVENTORY OF TOM GROWN HERBS
56 different Kinds                        

40 varieties of Tomatoes:  
Commercial hybrids to Heirloom
Spring Sale
*4-pac of Rutgers for $1.00
.25 per plant ( a real deal)
"This is  very good price.  Please bring my plastic containers  back to Grass Roots, so I can use them again.  This Tomato variety is a determinant  and great for you to   save for winter no matter how you process it."

 
          

    Tom Meinhover Audio Welcome  

Please Buy Fuchsia's from us this Spring.  We have 10 varieties.

Announcing New  2009

Grass Roots 
              Community Agenda                                  

Inventory of Native Plants

Dragon Fly Environment Center

Save the Mosquito

Brown Bag Seminars

Rush Lake Center for Non-Violent Change


Grass Roots Gifts.  
Old Fashioned Shopping

Open June 25th

Thirty Year Gift Sales Owner, Manufacturer Debbie Gluesing is bringing to her new Location on Rush Lake in Ottertail County  Here a familiar yet fresh look at Minnesota Gifts for that Non-Import look.  Using our new 100+year old 'Fairy Land Building, Debbie invites you to share as we evolve our next Gift incarnation.  Enter Here to check out what's new.  It's very cool what Debbie's doing.  

218 367 2503.

Grass Roots Gift On Hwy.54
 East Ottertail County.  

 

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Join us and explore the Community Service Part of our Grass Roots Business.  Thanks .....Tom

..........and our New Grass Roots Farm Campaign:

 

New Location Open May 1st, 2009  
Ribbon cutting Grand Opening at 11:00 May 1st.
33  Years Old This Year

 

 

NEW: Demonstration Gardens
Featuring our own Grass Roots Grown Annuals and Perennials 
Bartering as a way to exchange goods at new Grass Roots on Hiwy 54
Herbs
Minnesota Hardy Apple Trees.  Container Grown and Bare Root.
Rush Lake Center for Non-Violent Change
Tom Meinhover Blog
Nature Paths

 

 Ottertail County,  Minnesota

Grass Roots Community Service Web Site

 Open  this web site for pictures of you and your neighbors celebrating Ottertail City's annual event. Click on the 
Enter Here  places below.

David  P  Schreier
President of the  NTPA
(National Tractor Pullers Association)
Video Welcome....Enter Here

" Thanks for coming to Smokin Iron 2007"
Tom Meinhover

 

Enter Here for Great Photo Essays of Smokin' Iron Events from Ottertail, Minnesota

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Features

Grass Roots 2009 
*New Location: 

 Grass Roots is a thirty year old business.  In 2008 I (Tom Meinhover) sold our retail locations and have subsequently developed 40 Acres of woods, fields and farmland into a new 'retirement business.  Please come and take a look in '09

*Tom's Flowers
We Grow All Our Own
I am proud of the fact that in this day and age that We at Grass Roots grow all of the plants we sell you.  It appears that will have over 300 varieties of  Plants in stock this spring.  Enter her to check out what we are doing.  Thanks!"  Tom

*Community Service

Grass Roots interest in Social Justice is embodied in the Rush Lake Center for Non-Violent Change and in the environment in the Dragon Fly Center.  Please join us in our Local efforts here in Rural Minnesota.  


*Local Vegetables, 
Grass Roots have been growing local vegetables for over 30 years.  Long before the current popularity.  Trust us to do the best in provide you with local fresh (wide assortment) vegetables in the summer of 09

 

*Herbs
Herbs and Herb production is a focal point of our Grass Roots production and Product Sales. As a Grass Roots Customer you can cut your own fresh Herbs, Drink Fresh teas, Purchase seedlings for your own plantings and tour our deep woods for Native  Medicinal and Tea Plants 

*Nature Paths

After 30 years as a Retail site: Grass Roots has expanded to include 40 acres of woodland, bog, wet and dry prairie and farmland along with the Greenhouses and Retail areas.  While the lakes area continues to develop and 'tame' our native niches, Grass Roots has circled the wagons and is striving to keep this 40 acre island un-developed.


*Barter/Exchange:  
In this recession economy; Grass Roots is offering all customers an opportunity to barter/exchange our products for either your time or other goods.  Barter is a very honorable way to do business.  (check it out)


*Grass Roots Coop
Join Now:  Grass Roots Coop   
      Make Your OtterTail Neighborhood Better                               
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In the tradition of great political leaders from North Dakota and Minnesota in the 1930's, Tom Meinhover is offering you a change to enlarge you neighborhood and create some wonderful new opportunities for yourself and family. (check this out also)

*Apple Orchard


*Paint Ball

 

World's Largest Dragon Fly

 

 

 

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Minnesota Hardy Apples
       Zone 3 Experience
Order Now

$20 Apple Trees
(this spring at Grass Roots)

Title Spring

General Spring Season Tips:

 

 

Announcing New Location

Google Map
The  Grass Roots Farm
Visit our 112 year old Farm

 


Photo Essays  'Life in rural Minnesota ' 1992-2006

           

 

These picture stories will give you an insight into our rural Minnesota communities.  Take a look. 
"I have enjoyed creating these Photo - Essay of our Ottertail County area for the last 15 years.  You can get a nice feel for who we are in this wonder Lakes country in Rural Minnesota."

Check our our 2005 Salsa Contest

 

Dana Bahr has been growing local Vegetables for 3 decades here in West Ottertail County. Visit us  starting in the early spring '09, at Grass Roots to get his produce.  We are rich with early greenhouse Vegetables.  Melons, squashes, tomatoes, corn are all locally grown and available Daily.  Please come in often for your clean vitamin packed veggies..

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.

 

Apples Trees     

 

Grass Roots- Selection of Minnesota Apples, Plums and Cherry Trees


University of Minnesota Apple site....
.....Enter

 

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


Enter Here

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

 

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)