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Keep birds healthy, avoid moldy birdseed

...urges people to rake or sweep up any fallen seeds and seed hulls under their feeder to prevent moldy conditions from occurring...mice or other rodents, and the growth inhibitor in sunflower hulls can cause problems with grass or flowers near the feeder...

http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2013-05-09/keep-birds-healthy-avoid-moldy-b
Outdoors
Ask a master gardener

...Other mulch options are wood chips, bark chips, shredded wood chips, cocoa bean hulls (which emit a mild and delicious chocolate aroma), wild rice hulls and many others. Mulch has many benefits. It conserves moisture in the root zone of...

http://brainerddispatch.com/lifestyle/2012-07-31/ask-master-gardener
Lifestyle
DNR watercraft inspectors using big pressure washers, what are they doing?

...units are capable of spraying 160-degree water at high pressure. The equipment will be used to remove zebra mussels from boat hulls and treat livewells and other areas that can harbor invasive species. Most boats won't need to be decontaminated with the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2012-06-12/dnr-watercraft-inspectors-using-
Outdoors
Leonard A. Olson

...Justin Zicarelli, Jaclyn Tabone; great-grandson, Jacob Dennen; siblings, Milton Olson, of Richfield, and Helen Olson-Hull, of Denver. He is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Dorothy in 2006; and son, David, in 2010. Private services...

http://brainerddispatch.com/obituary/2013-04-12/leonard-olson
Ay, Pepitas!

...narrow teardrops and are greenish in color (because their hard, white hulls have been removed). Don't buy regular "snacking" pumpkin seeds still in their hulls.Like many nuts and seeds, pepitas taste best when toasted and salted...

http://brainerddispatch.com/lifestyle/food/2012-03-07/ay-pepitas
Food

...to 50 percent. It replaces LP and electric heating systems.Last year, a recipe of corn stalks, sunflower hulls, edible bean hulls and corn screenings comprised the pelletized fuel supplied by Minnesota Valley Alfalfa Producers for the system...

http://brainerddispatch.com/2012-03-26-1
Hillcross: Sturm scores high finishes at Ski Gull

...1-Mitch Posterick (Little Falls), 2-Max Holmes (Wayzata), 3-Taylor Ehresman (Verndale).Trail 600: 1-Wyatt Hulls (St. Joseph), 2-Jeffery Jones (Grand Rapids), 3-Rob Grabon (Bruce).600 Fan: 1-Connor Mckenzie (Pine Island...

http://brainerddispatch.com/sports/2012-03-18/hillcross-sturm-scores-high-finish
Sports
U of M power plant going greener

...And the steam-making process is about to change.Under a new plan, cleaner-burning natural gas and biomass - from oat hulls, a waste product from the General Mills cereal plant - will provide the campus with steam. Coal would only be used as a backup...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-06-13/u-m-power-plant-going-greener
News
Invasive aquatic species an on going fight

...invasive species are being spread, said Keri Hull, watercraft inspection supervisor at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.Hull spoke Monday night at the Brainerd Public...the Watercraft Inspection Program, which Hull runs. Inspectors in the program go on-site...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-03-14/invasive-aquatic-species-going-fight
News | Outdoors | Invasive Species
Lakewood Health System, Staples, births-April 7

...Kristina and Travis Jackson, Brainerd, a boy, Parker Jack-Lee, 7 pounds, 13 ounces, March 26, 2013.Ashley and Jacob Hull, Menahga, a boy, Tatum Jacob, 8 pounds, 11 ounces, March 27, 2013.Sheila and Jay Brinkman, Baxter, a boy, Aidan Jay...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/births/2013-04-05/lakewood-health-system-staple
Births

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