My Minnesota

Yesterday we promised to share some questions we believe should be answered before any species is officially designated as invasive. We have...

We’re fortunate to live somewhere that has a few out of the way fields that are either regenerating prairie or the owners have worked to res...

(Actually, we’re fudging a little. The real Ides of August were on August 13.) The past few days have brought delightful weather, gentle br...

Several days ago the township mowed the road's shoulders. Unfortunately, their mower was set too high  and the mowing date was too late ...

For the past week the roadsides in our neighborhood have been full of crown vetch in bloom. In 2017 crown vetch was added to the Minnesota l...

Drove through some  pretty country this morning while picking up our Summer Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Share box 1. Birds are sta...

Over  the past few days, the Better Half and  I have been trying to identify a "new" plant with pinkish flowers that's suddenl...

Today the air feels sultry. A classic case of "it's not the heat, it's the humidity." I've been in Sun City, Arizona, ...

Once again this year we've not seen any monarch caterpillars on our abundance of milkweed plants. Numerous monarch butterflies have been...

Yesterday was meteorological mid-Summer. Astronomical mid-Summer arrives on August 7. About midway between those two dates, on July 29, we w...

It's a very pleasant surprise to notice how much more attractive understory looks without the clutter of buckthorn. If this Autumn we do...

One of the things we really hate about late Summer and early Autumn is that's sandbur time. sandburs on the plant (shown upside dow...

No,not the Eddie Cochran song . Our lilac bush has belatedly(?) produced some bluish-purple flowers. The feral lilacs up the road, and most ...

This morning was spent moving some of the recently pulled buckthorn from the front of the property to the burn pile out back, pulling some s...