In Touch with Prairie Living By Michael M. Miller The Germans
from Russia Heritage Collection at the NDSU Libraries in Fargo
reaches out to prairie families and former Dakotans. In various
ways, it affirms the heritage of the Germans from Russia is an
important part of the northern plains culture. This month Cora
Wolff Tschaekofske, Dickinson, N.Dak., shares her memories of
gardening by her parents and grandparents. Cora returns again in
May to the Ukraine to visit her ancestral German villages of
Glückstal, South Russia (today in Moldova of the former Soviet
Union). The Germans from Russia who immigrated to America proved
to be good gardeners. Their gardens were, above all, an exercise
in faith, that same faith which had kept their families fed in
the land from which they came. This faith had given them the
foresight to bring garden seeds with them when they immigrated.
Later they planted these seeds: nourished and tended their
gardens with a knowledge and expertise acquired only through a
love for their lab