have nlog write to console

Check out the official tutorial here.

You need to add output rules:

<rules>
    <logger name="*" minlevel="Info" writeTo="console" />
</rules>

Also simplify your console target:

<target name="console" xsi:type="Console" />

Many useful samples are here: Most useful NLog configurations

You can configure from code as well:

var config = new NLog.Config.LoggingConfiguration();

// Targets where to log to: Console
var logconsole = new NLog.Targets.ConsoleTarget("logconsole");

// Rules for mapping loggers to targets
config.AddRule(LogLevel.Info, LogLevel.Fatal, logconsole);

// Apply config
NLog.LogManager.Configuration = config;

Use:

var logger = NLog.LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();
logger.Info("hello");