Katherine Brewer knows grasses, and restoring Prairie Dropseed in Minnesota prairies is her goal. In July she shared her knowledge with an attentive Lake Minnetonka Garden Club Membership audience highlighting her research for her masters degree from the University of Minnesota where she was honored this year with the graduate Horticultural Science award. Prairie Dropseed, or [...]

Katherine Brewer knows grasses, and restoring Prairie Dropseed in Minnesota prairies is her goal. In July she shared her knowledge with an attentive Lake Minnetonka Garden Club Membership audience highlighting her research for her masters degree from the University of Minnesota where she was honored this year with the graduate Horticultural Science award. Prairie Dropseed, [...]

This summer has been an unusual one to say the least….very warm in March….blizzard in April…90’s in May…. I found 5 Monarch caterpillars and 2 eggs not long ago on the common milkweed that grows freely in my yard. Two of the caterpillars transformed into handsome male Monarchs that my husband and I released last week. [...]

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