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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 board member, reports that the Food Shelf has averaged over 100 pounds of donated fresh produce every week and we hope to do even better this coming season.
For more information on how you can donate your extra produce this year or how you can "Plant a Row for the Hungry" download our news release.
Several Goodhue County Master Gardeners are working on the new Discovery Garden to be built this spring 2009 at Colvill Park in Red Wing, MN. The Discovery Garden is the last phase of the Universal Playground Project . Find out more at www.discoverygarden.info.
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.
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Unfortunately, Goodhue County is one of the oak wilt “hot spots" in Minnesota.
What is oak wilt and what can you do to prevent it from spreading to your neighborhood
oaks?
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Goodhue County Master Gardeners do a variety of volunteer activities including building a rain garden at the lowest point of a downtown Red Wing parking lot. Before there was a rain garden the water would travel through the parking lot picking up salt, antifreeze and other contaminants from automobiles and then drain directly into a storm sewer and then into the river system. Now the rain garden captures the rain water and the plant roots filter out the impurities before the water percolates into the groundwater. Master Gardeners will also be helping to design and plant a large rain garden at the new Pottery Park in 2008.
Goodhue Co. Master Gardeners planting a rain garden by a parking lot.
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