Home cooking trend makes vegetable kits from Minnesota and North Dakota take off
Monte Benz is from Steele, N.D., but picked up his vacuum-packed vegetable meal package business and moved it to Long Prairie, Minn., a few years ago after running into labor problems. Today, the revived business has expanded greatly and still gets onions from Steele, where he’s put up a new storage building. It still gets potatoes from the northern Red River Valley. It has expanded in part due to food consumption patterns during COVID-19. 5:31 am, Dec. 28, 2020 ×
Monte Benz, 66, of Steele, N.D., and 50 employees of Minnesota Fresh in Long Prairie, Minn., are producing 6.5 million “fresh, never frozen” veggie kits a year, in a market where more Americans are getting their nutrition at home. Photo taken Oct. 19, 2020, at Long Prairie, Minn. Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service
The week included six deaths in Otter Tail County.
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With the rate of cases in the area decreasing since the end of November, Wadena County has seen 36 additional positive cases of COVID-19 between Dec. 18-22. This is certainly progress, but it is still a very high number of cases per population, said Jan Malcolm, Minnesota commissioner of health, in a news conference on Dec. 21.
Area counties have seen the following increases in positive COVID-19 cases from Dec. 4-18: Becker County had an additional 312 cases, Hubbard 118, Otter Tail 542, Todd 236 and Wadena 168. The counties have seen decreases from the number of additional positive cases from Nov. 27-Dec. 11: Becker County had an additional 502 cases, Hubbard 198, Otter Tail 876, Todd 338 and Wadena 240.
The week included six deaths in Otter Tail County.
Written By:
Staff reports | ×
With the rate of cases in the area decreasing since the end of November, Wadena County has seen 36 additional positive cases of COVID-19 between Dec. 18-22. This is certainly progress, but it is still a very high number of cases per population, said Jan Malcolm, Minnesota commissioner of health, in a news conference on Dec. 21.
Area counties have seen the following increases in positive COVID-19 cases from Dec. 4-18: Becker County had an additional 312 cases, Hubbard 118, Otter Tail 542, Todd 236 and Wadena 168. The counties have seen decreases from the number of additional positive cases from Nov. 27-Dec. 11: Becker County had an additional 502 cases, Hubbard 198, Otter Tail 876, Todd 338 and Wadena 240.
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