The Lake Minnetonka Garden Club kicked off the season with a program on Organic Farming and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). CSA farmers grow vegetables and fruit without pesticides and herbicides, and use regenerative farming practices to build the soil naturally by utilizing cover crops and rotation practices. Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) Farmer of [...]

Check out Karen Wright's July 28th "Everyday is Earth Day" podcast about Monarchs featuring Wendy Caldwell of Monarch Joint Venture. Click this Read More to listen to the podcast. https://share.transistor.fm/s/d0d4eed6 The monarch has been declared endangered (not extinct) by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a global advocacy organization that monitors biological diversity. [...]

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, [...]