I recorded this short videoclip earlier this afternoon of Leif waxing eloquent about purple coneflowers. Share this:ShareFacebookEmail
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Leif interviewed on MPR’s Future Tense radio show today
Leif Knecht is interviewed by host Jon Gordon on today’s Future Tense radio show (MPR/American Public Media). The entire 5 minute show, More businesses consider blogging, is available on the show’s web site (listen using Real Audio) but here’s a snip: Recent entries on the photo-rich blog of Knecht’s Nurseries & Landscaping of Northfield, Minnesota [...]
Library articles in PDF
We’ve started posting Leif’s essays as PDFs, as that format is more universally viewable than Word docs. Most current web browsers can view PDFs right within a browser window. See the Adobe Reader support site for more. Share this:ShareFacebookEmail
Search the full-text of library articles
Google‘s search spider has evidently done a full crawling around the site, gathering up the full text of all the Word doc articles in the library. So now if you use the Google-based Search form, it’ll scour Leif’s articles from the past four years (as well as all the other pages on the site) for [...]
RSS: syndication and aggregation
This weblog is RSS-enabled. What’s RSS? It’s a radio signal for a website, most commonly used for weblogs. More technically: “Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content. Think of it as a distributable “What’s New” for your site.” See Intro to RSS for more info. [...]
Winterscape
We’ll be putting up some photos in the photo gallery over the coming weeks, chronicling the transition from winter to spring. For now, see the photos of the office wrapped in snow and the glow of holiday lights. Share this:ShareFacebookEmail
Leif’s essays
Leif Knecht is a Certified Nursery and Landscape Professional. See the listing on the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association website. We’ll soon have many of Leif’s essays posted here as we construct the web site. In the meantime, feel free to check his most recent ones in the Northfield News: Genetic engineering could be similar [...]
Coming soon
Deb Knecht and Leif Knecht will soon be posting to this weblog… maybe even Darrin Corbin and Heidi Lynn Gervais. Watch for their comments and essays on all things nursery and landscaping-related. Knecht’s Nurseries and Landscaping serves the south metro (southern Twin Cities), and southeast Minnesota, including Northfield, Dundas, Burnsville, Apple Valley, Lakeville, Lonsdale, New [...]





