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ILLMAR – Just southeast of Willmar, Larry and Mary Larson farm 700 acres of mostly corn and soybeans. Entering the farm on the long driveway with neatly mowed ditches and tall corn growing on each side, one might think those crops would be enough to keep them busy. In fact, that’s barely the beginning. What has occupied most of their time these last four decades are vegetables. “This has become one of those things that it’s who you are: We grow vegetables,” Larry said July 30 while giving a tour of the farm. The Larsons grow pretty much every major vegetable that farmers markets have, such as onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, carrots, beets, zucchini and squash. They plant all their own seed, starting them in a greenhouse in March. “We don’t bring any plants in b e cause we don’t want diseases and things, so we grow all our vegeta bles from seed,” Larry said. They can describe every type of plant and its characteristics, from Red Mountain tomatoes t o tomato #589, which they consider to have the true flavor of good tomatoes. Their expertise comes from years of experience, along with constant collaboration and research. “I’m a research guy and I always have something going on,” Larry said. “We also belong to the
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Minnesota Vegetable Growers Association and we get ideas there and through practical experience.” Experience helps a lot. “You get a little smarter every year,” Mary said. Vegetables are grown on several plots, along with high tunnels, a tomato greenhouse and even a wind garden, where vegetables that are more susceptible to wind damage are protected inside a fenced area lined with a woven screening material. Mary showed how well the pickling cucumbers grow on rows of high trellises, also allowing for easier harvesting. That comes in handy, as 15 gallons are often harvested in one picking. Inside the large high tunnel structure, vegetables grow in a controlled environment, protecting them from pests and wind while allowing the temperature to be regulated in very hot or cold weather. Everything is screened so no aphids or other insects can get in, cutting down on disease issues and damage to vegetables. “Everything is grown in the ground like a regular garden, except you have the plastic enclosure and you can control the environment in here,” Larry said. “There is a heater because we plant the first part of April, so we use heat at night.” High-producing Roma types of tomatoes grow huge, and large slicing cucumbers grow on arched trellises in the sunshine, ready to be picked the following day. When harvesting, the Larsons start from the bottom and go up, around and back down on the other side.
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Carrots and radishes are easily pulled in bunches from the ground. All the plants in the high tunnel are self-pollinating, bred to be female flowers so pollinators are not needed; the fans circulating help with the pollination and move the air to keep the plants more healthy. There, like other areas of the farm, when one crop is finished, another takes its place based on the time of the season and the particular space. Larry explained. “When the tomatoes are smaller we plant beets alongside, and we harvest them and the tomatoes take over,” he said. “This was carrots, then radishes, so we’ll be starting to harvest these now, too.” Then, there is what they call “the real tomato greenhouse,” where some 200 plants thrive. The couple is known far and wide for all their “Willmar Grown Quality Vegetables,” but none more than their “Larson’s Premium Sweet Corn,” brands they have carried since the beginning of their vegetable venture in the early 80s. They have seven acres of sweet corn with four varieties staggered to ripen in sequence; this year, the first corn was planted on April 17. From that time on for 14 weeks, every week to 10 days another patch was planted. The last corn was planted on the Fourth of July and will be ready the third week of September. Near a patch of ripe corn, their sweet corn harvester is parked. It is a machine that has made their lives much easier. “We harvested several hundred dozen this morning,” Larry said. “We start harvesting early in the morning when everything is hydrated so it is cool for market in the morning – the farmers market starts at 7 a.m. until noon.” A trailer is pulled behind the harvester for the corn, which is then brought to an air-conditioned shed where it is pre-packaged in their per-
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Mary Larson helps customers at the Willmar farmers market. The Larsons have sold their sweet corn and other vegetables at farmers markets for 40 years.
sonalized bags and stored in a cooler trailer. Twice a week, the couple loads up their delivery trucks and vans with vegetables and heads to the farmers market in Willmar, where regulars seek them out to purchase their products. Throughout the long growing season, Larry and Mary do all the work themselves. They have cut back to their smaller acreage from the 30 acres they ran years ago. While their own kids, Drew and Amy, were growing up, there were usually about five additional young people working alongside
them. “Over the years, we’ve had their friends and, because Mary’s a teacher, the kids would come out and they kind of just lived here,” Larry said. “We had a stand that was open six days a week in Willmar. We would start at 5 in the morning with the vegetable harvest and their parents would have to drive them out, so it was just easier for them to stay during the week and go home on the weekends. Even now, they cherish the times they lived here with us.” With the kids gone, the
Larsons are still working hard; they work together and they have an organized system. “Every third day we harvest tomatoes and slicing cucumbers, every other day the picklers which are smaller,” Larry said. “We harvest two days and sell one day; markets are Wednesday from 11-5 and Saturday from 7 to noon.” After being harvested, the produce is cleaned at their cleaning station, which is outdoors. “The best sanitary system you can have is outside in the
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An outdoor washing station is used to clean all the vegetables except corn before they are sold.
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Larry and Mary Larson discuss their methods of growing vegetables in their high tunnel greenhouse July 30 near Willmar.
and jams. There are two stoves, room close by for storage. a packing station and another There are jars of various products recently made, yet to be labeled. “We did beets yesterday,” Mary said. “Larry did the cooking outside; he rinses them off and brings them in so I don’t have that big mess in here. He does the packing and I do the cooking, hot water bathing and
Tomatoes are cleaned and ready for market.
pressure canning.” Nearly everything the Larsons grow is sold at the farmers market, but they are also involved in the community. Whenever corn or other vegetables grow too fast to sell, they are donated to the Willmar food shelf. “This year too, with the hot weather pushing it really fast,
we won’t be able to market it that fast, so we’ll bring some in each day,” Larry said. “We usually bring in 60-120 dozen ears of corn at a time and they get rid of that in two days.” In the past, they have been involved in the farm to school program, supplying Willmar, Montevideo and Glenwood with sweet corn and tomatoes. They have gone to the Kandiyohi County Fair for many years and one year, the South Dakota State Fair when people needed corn because of a drought. Sometimes, their corn might end up at a Stingers game, a local semi-pro baseball team in Willmar. Tours of the farm are a normal occurrence for the Larsons, with Larry being the primary tour guide and both of them enjoying the visits. Once, 600 people came for a tour, something they especially enjoyed because it gave them the opSlicing cucumbers grow on arched trellises in the high tunnel greenhouse. The plants are bred to be self-pollinating, so all insects portunity to show people where their food comes from. Every can be kept outdoors.
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Peterson’s operation has grown to 26 chickens, including a rooster named Blue who lives with nine hens in a coop inside Zajac’s cattle barn. She has nine quail in another coop behind their house. Housed with the rest of the chickens, they can see one another but are separated by wire. Peterson is back working full-time in a salon in Coon Rapids, but chicken chores continue to be part of her daily routine. “It’s an interesting life-
style, and I’ve learned a lot in the past year and a half,” said Peterson, who grew up in the country but not with farm animals. From the nine hens that are currently laying eggs, she has been picking two to three dozen eggs each week. By summer, she hopes to collect more. Last summer, she collected 15 dozen eggs every one to two weeks. Quail eggs are cream-colored with darkbrown spots and speckles splashed all over the shells.
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Quail rest in Ashley Peterson’s coop on the farm near Hillman. Eggs are laid anywhere in their coop, and picking them is a year-round egg hunt.
“They’re very pretty,” Peterson said of quail eggs, which are about one-third the size of a chicken egg. Quail’s alternative to poultry enticed Peterson to raise them and sell their eggs as a niche offering at the farmers market. Though small, the quail eggs are shaped the same and taste the same as their counterpart. When cooking with quail eggs, Peterson said you need three quail eggs for every one chicken egg you would typically use. Peterson’s quail lay just as many or more eggs as her chickens. She originally had more than 100 quail but has since downsized. “They laid a lot of eggs,” Peterson said. She was also used to eating quail eggs. Asian cuisine, one of her favorites, frequently features quail eggs. “They are a big thing at Japanese restaurants and I thought, ‘why go buy them when I can raise them myself,’” she said. “The Asian the dishes that I have had are the steamed buns, hardboiled eggs with pork inside a bun, and hardboiled eggs with the bacon wrap.” Most commonly, though, Peterson uses the quail eggs in a standard breakfast, as in fried, hardboiled or in omelettes. She eats the birds as well, saying they are butchered just like a chicken but are a little pickier because
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Quail eggs, held here by Ashley Peterson, are about one third the size of chicken eggs and cream-colored with dark-brown spots and speckles.
they are smaller. “They are a dark-meat bird,” she said. “I make Quail Gnocchi Soup; it’s like the Olive Garden soup. They do it with chicken so I take out the chicken and do quail or pheasant. It is really good.” Considering quail are game birds, they are fairly tame. “They can be a little more skittish but, like any bird, if you handle them they’ll get used to you,”
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Getting farmed out Visiting with Larry and Mary Larson I would love to see an influx of kids learning a few weeks ago was an enjoyable expeto work hard and taking pride in their work. rience. If you have already read the frontAnd, I know, all this is much easier said than page story, you will know these two are done. Kids have busy schedules that often very busy people, yet they gladly shared collide with the hours when they are needed their time with me on Friday morning. most on the farm. Equipment is big, expenThey also shared some fantastic vegetasive and not conducive to being operated by bles. the inexperienced young. Farming is dangerThis Willmar couple has quite the ous. The list goes on. story to tell, and honestly, what you read I think the reason this is all on my mind was basically a summary with a lot of it Random Reflections is that I see the dilemma parents have with by Diane Leukam omitted due to a lack of space. I guess their kids, especially those who are in that that’s OK too. You could probably say the 12- to 14-year-old range. They need consame thing for many of our stories because country structive work to keep them busy, but throwing them people do lead very interesting lives. into the workforce has its problems too. However, it When Larry was talking about having local kids can be done. living with their family throughout the summers, it While working at the ice cream building at the reminded me of when I was growing up on the farm. Stearns County Fair one evening, I spoke with one Even though we had eight kids in our family, our town of the dairy princesses who appeared to be waning cousins would often come out for extended stays. This around 9:30 p.m. She had been going strong since happened primarily when I was younger, so I am not 4:30 a.m. when she worked her shift milking cows 100% sure if they were there to visit, to get out of the at a local dairy. She made it clear she loved her work. house or to work. It was probably a combination of This dairy princess is in college now, but she has all the above. been working on the farm for several years. She startTown families sometimes had the problem of not ed out feeding calves and started milking cows this having enough for their kids to do, so the farm was an summer. She loves the camaraderie with her co-workobvious solution for helping them learn how to work. ers and can hold her own in any conversation. There was always plenty to be done on the farm and I Here is some lighthearted banter that might have think they called this process “being farmed out” back been overheard by her employer. The guy she was in the day. milking cows with said to her, “I thought you were I know one of my cousins was actually there to going to fill my soap bucket,” and she replied, “I’m work as a hired hand. I was quite young, and what I not your mother, why would I do that for you?” remember most about him was that he would always The employer commented, “You two sound like dazzle us younger kids with his impression of Donald siblings!” Duck. The only time I really see him these days is at It turns out, this girl has multiple jobs and is rewakes and funerals for members of our large family, portedly always smiling and cheerful doing any one but like the kids who stayed out at the Larsons over of them. It also turns out, her younger sister started at the years, it is clear he still cherishes his time spent on this same dairy feeding calves at the age of 14, before the farm. He can still do Donald Duck, too. she could drive. She is still there as well. Of course, There are still many kids in town without enough some kids are much more willing to work than others, to do, and there are many family farms out there with a but where there is a will to work, there are options. need for workers. Times have changed, to be sure, but Clearly, a good option for some is getting farmed out.
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A marriage promise: Through sickness, in health Boesl donates kidney to ailing husband BY JENNIFER COYNE STAFF WRITER
BRANDON – Jeff Boesl stole Julie’s heart 35 years ago, and now he has her kidney. The couple’s strength and devotion to each other was reaffirmed when Julie became an organ donor for her husband Jan. 19. “I tell her, ‘Thank you,’ every day,” Jeff said. “I’m unbelievably thankful for this small miracle, and I show my appreciation every day.” Jeff suffers from an inherited disorder known as polycystic kidney disease, where clusters of cysts develop on his kidneys, ultimately resulting in organ failure. Yet, with the successful transfer, the 54-yearold is back to completing farm chores as if he was in his 30s. “This is a game changer,” Jeff said. “I’m a completely different guy now. I felt absolutely better immediately after surgery.” The Boesls milk 400 cows with Jeff’s family in Douglas County near Brandon. They also crop farm and have a herd of
beef cattle. In Jeff’s family, polycystic kidney disease is quite common; his grandfather, mother and six of seven siblings were affected by the illness. Jeff’s first inkling of being a carrier was when he enrolled in the local fire department and was flagged for high blood pressure during the physical assessment. “At first we thought it might be related,” Julie said. “We had it in the back of our minds of what could be causing his high blood pressure.” Jeff’s health worsened eight years ago, so he began doctoring with a specialist to monitor his situation. At the time, he was visiting with his doctor every six months, and with vitamins and a strict diet, Jeff was able to prolong the use of his kidneys. “In the last five years, I could see it getting worse, but honestly I thought it was just me aging,” Jeff said. However, in 2019, Jeff’s kidneys were functioning at 10%. He was consulting with his doctor every two months and developing a plan. He was
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Jeff and Julie Boesl are recovered from kidney transplant surgeries earlier this year, after Julie donated one of her kidneys to Jeff. The Boesls dairy farm near Brandon.
in need of a transplant or needed to be put on dialysis. “I could see it in him,” Julie said. “He had no energy, no appetite and his immune system was weak. A cold would take a normal person two days to recover from. For Jeff, it was two weeks.” Jeff agreed. “It got to the point that
I had to force myself to eat just so I had the strength to keep working,” he said. Soon after, the Boesls made a plan to get Jeff on the organ donor list, and Julie underwent testing to see if she could be a possi-
ble match. Both Julie and the Boesls’ son were the perfect fit for Jeff’s transplant needs. “That was hard to accept,” Jeff said. “My uncle once told me that there are
givers and takers in this world, and you want to be known as a giver.” At the very least, Jeff could go on dialysis and not risk the surgery on his family members. “I knew it would be OK,” said Julie, who has undergone two other surgeries near that incision site. “My doctor said I have numbers like a triathlete. My body can take care of me with one kidney.” The Boesls quickly moved forward with their plan and adjusted farm chores accordingly. They moved breeding around so there would be minimal calving while the couple was recovering, lessening the burden of chores on family and friends who were going to help. “It was like going on vacation,” Julie said. “That was the benefit of working with a living donor. We could plan.” On the day of the surgery, the couple – while having to follow hospital procedures of operating and recovering in separate rooms – did prepare for the operation together.
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Boesl from page 10 The Boesls were also the first patients at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis to use Zoom to connect to each other following the surgery. “The staff was very accommodating of our wishes to be together,” Jeff said. “The first thing I asked about after surgery was how Julie was doing. Then, I could see her over the video stream.” The couple spent four days in the Twin Cities before being released to recover at home. Six months following surgery, both Boesls show little signs of being an organ donor and recipient. Jeff continues to have checkups with his doctor, and he is on anti-rejection medication to protect the new-to-him kidney. In the future, Jeff will need to have surgery to remove the infected kidneys which are no longer functioning in his
body. Nothing compares to what Julie’s selflessness means to Jeff. “Because of her, I’m able to do what I love again: working. I love my job,” Jeff said. “And, there’s nothing better now than when Julie makes an awesome supper, and I look at it and want to eat it. I can enjoy eating again.” Even the Boesls’ children have commented on Jeff’s better health, having the ability to play with their 13 grandchildren. “Before, I would go into the play room and the kids would play around me as I napped,” Jeff said. “Now, I can be right there doing stuff with them.” In sickness and in health, the Boesls promised themselves to each other – and that promise could not be upheld any better than through the actions of Julie this past year. “He’s back,” she said. “We’re a team again.”
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The salsa and sauerkraut guy Love of gardening, socializing a draw for Venhuizen BY SARAH COLBURN | STAFF WRITER
HOLDINGFORD – For 16 years, Paul Venhuizen has been the salsa and sauerkraut guy at the farmers market in Isle and now, he’s bringing his goods to Albany. “The markets themselves are direct from producer to consumer,” Venhuizen said. “It gives people the opportunity to get stuff fresh from the farm.” Venhuizen enjoys the markets as much as he enjoys the gardenVenhuizen is ing. He has a half-acre lot where his house is in Holdingford and has careful with turned two thirds of the yard into his heirlooms, garden. “I don’t like mowing grass,” making sure he said. “Since I don’t have cows they’re at least anymore, grass is kind of a pesky weed.” 30 feet apart Venhuizen grew up on a dairy farm in western South Dakota, op- from any other erated a dairy farm in his 20s and type of tomato worked on other dairies much of his life. He retired in 2012 from a plant to ensure plastics plant and has put his efforts their purity. into his gardens ever since, moving to the Holdingford property in OcPHOTO BY DIANE LEUKAM tober of 2020 to be closer to his kids. His yard is filled with cucumbers, winter squash, Paul Venhuizen, the salsa and sauerkraut guy at the farmer’s market in Isle, stands in the backyard garden of his home 29 in Holdingford. Highly visible in this photo is the smoke of wildfires burning Canada that has pervaded the beans, beets, cabbage, kohlrabi, raspberries, rhubarb, July Minnesota air for some time this summer. strawberries and a whole host of tomatoes, 112 plants to be exact. Venhuizen grows and sells a number of heirloom shapes and unique colors, are popular with the 35- to of tomato plant to ensure their purity. He also grows some Brandywines at his brother’s place in Isle, and tomatoes at the farmers market, among other more 55-year-old crowd. Venhuizen is careful with his heirlooms, making collects the seeds, to ensure the varieties never mix. standard varieties, and uses a blend of them in his signature salsa. He finds the heirlooms, with their odd sure they’re at least 30 feet apart from any other type Venhuizen page 13
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He got his original seeds from a garden business in Randolph 15 years ago and has worked hard to keep them separated so he can save some year after year. He has pink Mortgage Lifters, faintly cinnamon-tasting German Greens, Pink Brandywines and yellow Pineapples that blush pink stripes when they’re ready for eating. The heirlooms he raises, especially the Pink Brandywines, can grow to be 2-3 pounds in a single tomato. Perfect for salsa, he said. “If you get one of them you can put up a lot of salsa and sauce,” Venhuizen said. Though customers seek out his salsa, he said, he doesn’t have a set recipe. “It’s a bunch of this and a bunch of that, seasoned with oregano and basil,” he said. Once he gets the salsa ingredients run through a food processor – tomato, onion, celery, green pepper, jalapeno ˜ and herbs
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– he throws in cayenne for those who want a hot batch; then, he taste tests and adds what’s missing. He crafts roughly 300 pints of salsa a year. He just calls it what it is, “Red Salsa,” though he said depending on the batch of heirlooms, it can trend a little more yellow or or-
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and hot-pepper pickled beans. He sells a couple hundred jars of sauerkraut and has to supplement his homegrown cabbage supply with produce from a grocer because he simply can’t grow enough for all the sauerkraut he needs to make. The hot-pepper pickled beans are sold by the quart – he hand-picks beans and places them in each jar, seasoning them with jalapeno ˜ or cayenne pepper and filling them with a dill brine made of vinegar and water. After a day or two of brining, he said, the beans develop their pickled flavor and after a week, they take on the heat. He makes 40 or 50 quarts a year. Venhuizen spends a couple days a week doing some kind of canning or freezing. He often freezes apples and raspberries to make jam or sauce out of them later. Tomatoes that
Some of the heirloom tomatoes grow to weigh 2-3 pounds each.
He said he tries not to figure out the amount of time he spends gardening and prepping. “It’s just being in the garden, being with nature, growing plants and seeing them develop,” he said. “It’s just being there, getting dirt on your hands.” His parents had a garden when he was growing up and as he’s gotten older, he truly appreciates that and it provides him with exercise in addition to a bounty of good, healthy foods. For him, it’s more about the love of gardening and the love of socializing at the markets than it is about money, though he appreciates that, too. He enjoys chatting with shoppers at the weekly markets, getting to know about them and their lives. He’s been getting to know the community of Isle through the farmers market for nearly two decades and helped the Albany Chamber of Commerce launch its new market this year. He’s been one of the organizers from the beginning and said that while it’s still growing, with an initial six to eight vendors, there’s always a steady Paul Venhuizen has transformed two-thirds of his half- flow of customers coming acre lot into a garden where he can grow all his favorite through. don’t sell, he slices and freezes for later preparation. “It makes me feel like I’m accomplishing something,” he said. “It just feels good.”
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In search of cross rocks
Bowlus man enjoys the hunt, socializing below Blanchard Dam BY DIANE LEUKAM STAFF WRITER
BOWLUS – On any given day just below the Blanchard Dam on the Mississippi River near Royalton, the sound of water flowing over the 46-foot drop mesmerizes visitors who hike from the SOO Line Trail Bridge down to the water’s edge. One Bowlus man can often be seen scouring the riverbank in search of something else that holds his interest: cross rocks. Dennis Brady says he is no authority on cross rocks. He has no clear concept in his mind on how they were formed, even though he often jokes about dinosaurs stepping on them; he said he has no idea what happened a million years ago. However, what he does know is how to find them. Brady spends most of his spare of them home – some of time cross-rocking. In them excellent specimens the last several years, he and others, not so much. has brought thousands “I was fishing down
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Dennis Brady holds a sampling of cross rocks July 29 at Jordie’s Trailside Café in Bowlus. Brady has been crossrocking for several years below the Blanchard Dam near Royalton. (left) Cross rocks are rare, found only in a few locations in the United States, as well as several spots in European countries.
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The dam site near Royalton is one of the few places in the world where the cross rocks – or fairy rocks or angel crosses, depending on who is talking about them – are found. They are rare. They can be found in several places in the United States, and only a few other countries. “One of the other places is Russia, but me and Putin don’t get along,” Brady said, his sense of humor evident. When Brady goes cross-rocking, his method is fairly simple. Once he has hiked down the rugged west bank of the Mississippi for about 20 minutes to his favorite hunting grounds, he searches for areas where
the ground is infused with the silver-colored mica. On July 29, though, he stayed about a hundred yards from the base of the dam. “You can see someone was scratching here; hundreds of people have been through here,” he said. “You look for that gray stuff – that’s a good spot.” He explained that scratching in the soil is the necessary method because digging is illegal. Shovels are not allowed, so Brady uses a small three-pronged garden tool to scratch the soil. Soil is then placed in his sifter and brought to the water’s edge, where he carefully
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Fair crush forever BY DIANE LEUKAM | STAFF WRITER
SAUK CENTRE – The Stearns County Fair is wrapped up for the year, but the excitement lives on for longtime fairgoers Spencer Van Beck of Freeport and Angela Molitor of Rockville. The 21-year-olds were engaged July 25 in the show arena where they met through 4-H as 14-year-olds. Spencer had planned the surprise, wanting to propose on the fairgrounds that have meant so much to both of them. That Sunday morning, he prepared the arena with rose petals and candles. “I came here earlier in the day and set some stuff up in the show arena,” Spencer said. “That night, I told her I was taking her out to dinner in Alexandria; we got off in Sauk Centre and came here and she’s like, ‘why are we going to the fairgrounds?’ I pulled up to the arena and went inside and I proposed to her there.” When the fair dust settles, the couple will make plans for their wedding, which they predict will be sometime next year. They haven’t chosen a specific town to live in yet. “We could go almost anywhere; there are so many small towns where we could live and still be 15 minutes away from our families,” Angela said.
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Spencer Van Beck and Angela Molitor celebrate their engagement July 25 at the Stearns County Fairgrounds, where they met as youth in the 4-H program.
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