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Heather Holm gives shares education about the importance of leaving the leaves in our gardens. It improves soil health, habitat for native pollinators and insects, and much more. Heather is a pollinator conservationist and educator in the twin cities.
Looking for experts in a variety of gardening-related topics for your next garden club meeting or special event?
In this article, we will explore starting a home garden with your kids, deciding which vegetables to grow, establishing a gardening schedule, teaching sustainability, and keeping children plugged in with fun activities. Let’s dig in and get our hands dirty!
Your Northern Gardener guide for planting in Zone 4!
Looking to get compost for your community garden? You can get it in the Minneapolis and St Paul areas!
Meals on Wheels is a nationwide program that provides older Americans nutritious meals and safety checks at little to no cost.
In Minneapolis, a nonprofit organization called Metro Blooms partners with communities to create resilient landscapes. One of the projects is installing rain gardens in boulevards to help hold back and infiltrate stormwater.
Learn how you can be a champion for bees, butterflies, birds and other wildlife in your own yard.
Bee the change. Here are five ways we help our fuzzy, six-legged friends. Learn more at northerngardener.org and beelab.umn.edu/bees/helping-bees.
Have you ever wanted to test the USDA Hardiness Zone you’re gardening in? Join award-winning writer/photographer and horticulturalist Gail Brown Hudson for a virtual tour and learn how this Minnesota gardener is pushing our colder zones to the limit.
Wondering what you can grow in a small raised bed as part of our Garden-in-a-Box program? You might be surprised how many flowers, fruits and vegetables you can cram into a little garden circle! GIAB participants in Marshall County show off the fruits of their labor.
Sneak a peek at a full year of identifying native plants and collecting and processing their seeds. Join in the fun next year!
Learn how you can transform your boulevard into a raingarden or bioswale!
Learn which plants will thrive in your boulevard garden!
Looking to learn more about how you can support pollinators in Minnesota and other cold climates? Join us for one of our upcoming Pollinator Week webinars! Topics include Planting for Pollinators, Seed Mixes & Ground Nesting Habitats, and Stem-Nesting Bee Ecology and Conservation.
Instead of watching the snow melt in the cul-de-sac, I prefer to visit a few snow-free south-facing slopes and sandy prairies in my neighborhood. These sites are home to one of the first native bee species to emerge in spring — the unequal cellophane bee (Colletes inaequalis).
Learn how to use this free app to identify native plants all around us.
On this international Fascination with Plants Day, let’s talk ligularia with one of our favorite international friends, Mary Maguire Lerman!
This presentation provides an overview of recent and current climate conditions in Minnesota.
Growing garlic is easy! In this webinar with Michelle Bruhn from @Forks in The Dirt, you’ll learn when to plant your garlic, which varieties grow best in cold climates, and how to harvest, cure, and store it.
David Woods, conservation program director for Urban Roots, shares how you can propagate seeds for planting. Learn cold stratification techniques (how to do it and which seeds need it) as well as indoor and outdoor seed-starting methods.
Brad Herrick, an ecologist at the UW-Madison Arboretum, explains the basic biology of earthworms and how to identify different kinds.
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