July 24, 2021
Bailey Tangen, a University of Minnesota graduate student teaching a session on soil health to a group of aspiring agronomists and farm-business sales reps on the school's St. Paul campus, was begging her students to climb down into the dirt pit.
"You fall in love with soil when you start playing with it," Tangen, who's studying water resources science, said as she rubbed a clod of dirt between her fingers. "Feel free to get your hands dirty." Read the full story in the Star Tribune.