RoyalRoots Garden delivers home-grown microgreens. Fresh garden produce will be added over the summer. Written By: Maria Lockwood | ×
Natasha Lancour, owner of RoyalRoots Garden, delivers microgreens to customers in the Twin Ports. (Photo courtesy of Ivy Vainio)
A Superior woman who found healing through gardening is bringing that joy, and the produce she grows, to the community. Natasha Lancour launched her new business, RoyalRoots Garden, in early February, offering nutrient-packed microgreens delivered straight to customers’ doors.
It started with a hunger. After two years of growing produce in her backyard garden, Lancour was impatient for spring to come.
“I wanted to grow something and I wanted to grow something fast,” she said.
This week s top picks in local arts and entertainment. Written By: Christa Lawler | ×
Theater by Zoom
The University of Minnesota Duluth’s production of “Love and Information,” directed by Lauren Roth, is a play of bits and blurbs, pieces of conversation the audience is dropped into: a tug-of-war over a secret, a message from an unlikely source, a sister who is technically a mother.
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Playwright Caryl Churchill’s work premiered in London in 2012, and it contains dozens of plotlines and more than 100 characters. Pre-pandemic, it played on a stark, simple set. Now it comes to you within the neat boxes of Zoom. “Love and Information” is available for viewing at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11-14.
We Three Kings premiere
Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial presentation of “ … And They Lynched Him on a Tree” by William Grant Still and the world premiere of Rudy Perrault’s “We Three Kings.” I was unfamiliar with this specific work by Still as it is a choral work, but what I learned about it and how significant a work it is makes me want to hear it again and again! I really wish it were performed more regularly.
On the same program was a work by my UMD colleague Jean Perrault. This work is a premiere for the memorial event, the use of extremes and dissonance really captures for me the pain and discord. Thankful music could connect the past and present.
The COVID vaccine
By Arne Vainio, MD.
My wife’s grandmother is almost 95 years old and we visit her and her husband Rainbow on a regular basis. Both of them grew up in poverty and their strength and their humor rises from that. We have meals there as often as we can and they tell us stories of hard times and past lives.
At least, that’s how it used to be before the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then we talk to them on Skype and they figured out how to set that up on their computer. It’s good to see them face to face, even if it’s on a screen.