{"id":5885,"date":"2015-06-05T19:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2015-06-05T19:40:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:40:59","slug":"reginaldo-haslett-marroquin-03-discusses-agripreneur-program-with-minnpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/05\/reginaldo-haslett-marroquin-03-discusses-agripreneur-program-with-minnpost\/","title":{"rendered":"Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin ’03 discusses ‘agripreneur’
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\"MinnPost\"In a recent special report examining the prospects and challenges for non-metro counties in Minnesota, Augsburg College alumnus Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin ’03<\/strong> discussed economic shifts and new opportunities for agriculture in southeastern Minnesota.<\/p>\n

In the report, which was commissioned by\u00a0The McKnight Foundation and republished by MinnPost, Haslett-Marroquin explained\u00a0the ways in which Latino immigrant families are reinventing the notion of the family farm in Rice and Dakota counties.<\/p>\n

Haslett-Marroquin\u00a0co-founded the successful Peace Coffee company and today leads the Main Street Project, an initiative seeking to develop “a prototype for agriculture that will chart a course toward prosperity for Latino immigrant families, boost local economies and provide healthier, tastier food that people of all incomes can afford,” according to the article\u00a0Reinvigorating the agricultural economy in Southeast Minnesota<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent special report examining the prospects and challenges for non-metro counties in Minnesota, Augsburg College alumnus Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin ’03 discussed economic shifts and new opportunities for agriculture in southeastern Minnesota. In the report, which was commissioned by\u00a0The McKnight Foundation and republished by MinnPost, Haslett-Marroquin explained\u00a0the ways in which Latino immigrant families are reinventing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[849,3636,3647,3650,1967,3649,3648],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-jay-walljasper","tag-main-street-project","tag-minnpost","tag-peace-coffee","tag-reginaldo-haslett-marroquin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}