b'ward, she signed her cookbook, Molly OnTheRange:RecipesandStoriesfromanUnlikelyLifeonaFarmintheNPPGAbooth at the show.Molly is married to Nick Hagen and theyhave a 6 month old daughter, Bernie. Nickand Molly moved back to the farm in EastGrand Forks, Minnesota in the summer of2013fromNewYorkCity.NicksGrandfather, Cliff Hagen, was President oftheNorthernPlainsPotatoGrowersAssociation(formerlyRedRiverValley NickandMollystoppedbytheNPPGAboothtovisitatthePotatoGrowersAssociation)from1966 International Crop Expo.thru 1967. We sat down with Molly fora short inter-view.How did you meet your husband Nick?I went to Juilliard School in New York afterhighschooltostudypercussion.WhileIwasthereIwasintroducedtoNick,whowas studing to play the trombone.Did you know right then that you two Mollysignshercookbook,MollyOnTheRange:RecipesandStories from an Unlikely Life on a Farm at the NPPGA booth afterwould marry? her keynote address.No, Nick actually graduated from Juilliardand moved back to the farm in Minnesota.ItwasntuntilhereturnedtoNewYorkafter I had graduated that we reconnected.You said you were at Juilliard studying tobe a percussionist, how did you end upgetting involved with food and cooking?When I was studying to be a percussionist itwas alot of sitting in the back of the bandandwaitingformytimetogetinvolved Molly giving her keynote address at the International Crop Expo.with the symphony. I just decided after aAPRIL 2020 POTATO GROWER 25'