Storied: Hmong American Farmers Association

The Minnesota Historical Society talks to Janseen Hang, senior organizer at the Hmong American Farmers Association.

MN90: Parasites, Not Pesticides

Britt Aamodt describes Pu Zhelong's contributions to the history of pest management in Minnesota.

Incarcerated women cultivating a field

Incarcerated women cultivating a field

Women incarcerated at the Minnesota Reformatory for Women, Shakopee, cultivate a field ca. 1920.

Incarcerated women posing by a cornfield

Incarcerated women posing by a cornfield

Women incarcerated at the Minnesota Reformatory for Women, Shakopee, pose by a cornfield, ca. 1920.

Mrs. Frank Ochocki and her children

Mrs. Frank Ochocki and her children

Mrs. Frank Ochocki and five of her children working in their garden, Hendricks, Minnesota. Undated but ca. 1930s. Immigration History Research Center Archives Photograph Collection, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Kempfer Farm exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair

Kempfer Farm exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair

Kempfer Farm exhibit created for the Minnesota State Fair, 1920. From the Kempfer Collection, Otter Tail County Historical Society Archives, Fergus Falls.

Otter Tail County Holstein Breeders Association banquet

Otter Tail County Holstein Breeders Association banquet

The Otter Tail County Holstein Breeders Association banquet at the Grand Hotel in Fergus Falls, 1915. The hotel was flattened by a cyclone in 1919. Otter Tail County Historical Society, Fergus Falls.

Victory-garden poster

Victory-garden poster

Victory-garden poster made during World War II. Minnesotans during both world wars were encouraged to plant backyard vegetable gardens so that farm crops could be used to feed more service members.

Participants in an agricultural pageant in Anoka County, Minnesota.

Agricultural Pageant

Participants in an agricultural pageant in Anoka County, Minnesota in 1916.

Exterior side view of the Thorstein Veblen home, Nerstrand, Minnesota, ca. 2011.

Veblen home exterior

Exterior side view of the Thorstein Veblen home, Nerstrand, Minnesota, ca. 2011.

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