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Goodhue County Master Gardeners are making news. Here are just a few of the newspaper and television spots where Goodhue MGS were featured:
Master Gardener Donald Mitchell is one of less than fifty in the whole country that is permitted to capture and band hummingbirds. Twin Cities Kare11 TV featured Donald and you can see the video here:
http://www.kare11.com/news/simplyscience
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Goodhue County Master Gardener Terry L. Yockey describes buckthorn and why you need to remove this very invasive plant from your property.
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The Goodhue County Master Gardeners and the Red Wing Farmers Market joined forces with the Red Wing Area Food Shelf to implement the "Plant a Row for the Hungry" program in 2008 and it couldn't be going better. Craig Anderson, a RW Area Food Shelf volunteer, reports that the Food Shelf averaged over 200 pounds of donated fresh produce per week last season and we hope to do even better in 2010.
View our PSA video on Plant a Row for the Hungry.
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Terry L. Yockey, Goodhue County Master Gardener
Why should you find and remove all buckthorn from your yard and gardens?
Let's start with why buckthorn is so destructive. Buckthorn produces berries with zillions of seeds that are eaten and then dispersed by the birds. The seeds germinate easily and then become zillions of baby buckthorns that soon grow into thickets of buckthorn that choke out all the existing native shrubs and other vegetation including the chokeberries, serviceberries and high-bush cranberries (Viburnums) that feed the birds and other fauna.
Continue reading "Borrow a Weed Wrench and Be a Buckthorn Buster" »
Visit our calendar that lists yard and gardening events and classes all around our area. Click the Agenda tab to get a full listing of all the current events or click each separate date for a description and map that shows you how to get there.