#Minnesota farmer grows #ClimateAdaptive seedlings as co-op member

Brian Ingmire’s mission to help #reforest northern Minnesota became a lot more important after the June 21 storm that leveled millions of trees in the #Bemidji area.

By Dennis Doeden
September 07, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Excerpt: "Brian is a member of the Farm & Forest Growers Cooperative, a network of small farms and nurseries that grow climate-adaptive tree seeds into seedlings, and then sell the seedlings to reforestation agencies and individuals.

" 'Minnesota has a massive need for tree seedlings,' Ingmire said. 'Something like 10 million trees are needed every year at a minimum. And we have a lot of forest disturbance, whether it’s fires or wind events.'

"Ingmire figures he has about 30,000 tree seedlings on his farm, and about two-thirds of them will be available for purchase this fall. Online orders can be placed at climatesmarttrees.com. He's also been selling seedlings at his Bemidji Natural Choice Farmers Market booth, and says having them there gives him an opportunity to talk about the project.

"New North Farm is one of 24 members of the cooperative. Ingmire is growing several varieties, including #RedOak, #BurrOak, #YellowBirch and #SilverMaple. All are collected from about 200 miles south and then started up north.

" 'I can tell you where their parent tree came from,' Ingmire said. “They should be able to handle the changes in temperature extremes. We’ve got different insect pests and #fungal pests that are putting stressors on trees just because of the temperature extremes. These trees should have the genetic ability to deal with that kind of extreme.'

"The need for #reforestation was certainly exacerbated in the Bemidji area after the June storm. It is estimated that Beltrami County lost nine million trees, and many were also downed in parts of Hubbard and Cass counties.

" 'That number exceeds a lot of the nursery capacity that we have,' Ingmire said."

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https://www.inforum.com/sports/northland-outdoors/minnesota-farmer-grows-climate-adaptive-seedlings-as-co-op-member

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This post was started almost a year ago when #TonyBennett died months before I joined #Mastodon. It was about the #Reids, my favorite neighborhood family and the bros who became my closest friends back when I was an otherwise lonely #BurbanBoomerBoy. D was 2 days older than my sibling & R was a grade ahead of me with similar tastes in entertainment. I shared my #BillCosby albums with him and he introduced me to the music of #TomLeher. I lost touch with him after I started college and last heard that he had settled in #Bemidji where he matriculated.

R was a huge fan of Tiny Tim and loved imitating his falsetto singing, sometimes in pancake makeup with a ukulele. He once told me that he won a very special prize out of thousands of contestants in the #Chicagoland area. A personal home visit from #MartinMull who arrived in a limo was the grand prize in some promotion for one of his early albums. R told me about it afterwards and played me a few tracks from the records he had.

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#Bemidji #couple celebrates 10 years since #legalization of #samesexmarriage in #Minnesota.

Like so many other #LGBTQ+ #couples, #EmilyPapkeLarson and #EmilyPowers of Bemidji never thought #marriage would be an #option for them. Now #Minnesota is #celebrating 10 years of #marriageequality.

#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Minnesota #MarriageEquality #SameSexMarriage #LoveWins

https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/bemidji-couple-celebrates-10-years-since-legalization-of-same-sex-marriage-in-minnesota