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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 100 pounds of donated fresh produce every week last season and we hope to do even better this year.
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.
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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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Several Goodhue County Master Gardeners worked on the new Discovery Garden at Colvill Park in Red Wing, MN. The Discovery Garden is the last phase of the Universal Playground Project . Find out more about our new garden at www.discoverygarden.info.
Download the free publication "The Value of Trees" from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum that includes how to plant a tree, taking care of trees, 50 terrific trees for Minnesota, and much more.