tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309385158537254711.post7058548517244965471..comments2023-09-26T12:18:39.374+03:00Comments on Boreal Expat: Sharecropping and vice versaKent Tankersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01848650819768345044noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309385158537254711.post-45486373516485020882012-11-06T20:41:08.231+02:002012-11-06T20:41:08.231+02:00The University also has fields for testing various...The University also has fields for testing various crops all over the city.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309385158537254711.post-24936520539108134992011-12-12T00:07:04.384+02:002011-12-12T00:07:04.384+02:00It's true, there is at least one other working...It's true, there is at least one other working farm in Helsinki, as I've come to realize. Viikki is another example of how, with Helsinki, there's also some country in the city.Kent Tankersleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01848650819768345044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309385158537254711.post-10696868853540746452011-12-08T12:28:59.822+02:002011-12-08T12:28:59.822+02:00The University has a very working farm within Hels...The University has a very working farm within Helsinki city limits in Viikki.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309385158537254711.post-20940450516294246212011-08-30T15:02:25.263+03:002011-08-30T15:02:25.263+03:00Finland has pretty good national parks, though und...Finland has pretty good national parks, though understandably nothing on the scale (or variety) of the parks in the US. (BTW, the park system is something I really miss about the US). Near Helsinki there's a park that we visit now and then and that I'm planning to do a post on a little later.Kent Tankersleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01848650819768345044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2309385158537254711.post-76813697362478068532011-08-28T19:21:07.556+03:002011-08-28T19:21:07.556+03:00Interesting stuff. Do you ever visit Finland's...Interesting stuff. Do you ever visit Finland's National Parks? I've done a little reading on them and there are some interesting ones there, despite the nation's lack of mountainous terrain (which I always look for).<br /><br />One of my friends is a writer who is second generation American-Finnish. Rick Hautala. He writes horror and he tells me that his family name translates to "graveyard" which is appropriate, if so. His family uprooted and moved away from stony, cold, pine-covered Finland to...stony, cold, pine-covered Maine. You have to laugh.James Robert Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281049641681225389noreply@blogger.com