Gardening Resources
New to gardening or just looking for some spring greenery inspiration? We’ve got a bunch of resources to enhance your garden this summer!
Mississippi Market Blog Resources:
- Patio & Small-Space Gardening
- A Guide to Homegrown Herbs
- How to Build a Raised Bed
- Grow Your Own Potatoes or Sweet Potatoes
- Regrow Food Scraps
- How to Attract Pollinators
- Home Composting 101
Andy from ReWild Gardens is a friend of your Co-op. He teaches classes before the plant sale and specializes in native landscapes. ReWild is a good resource if you are looking to hire help for your garden or landscaping projects.
Here are some resources from around the Twin Cities and Midwest:
- Neighborhood Greening – Dedicated to community environmental education.
- Xerxes Society – They are all about invertebrates and pollinators! They have plentiful resources.
Suggested Reading Materials:
- Leave the Leaves from the Xerces Society
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Doug Tallamy has a variety of books that cover how you can support wildlife in your yard! He is the cofounder of Homegrown National Park.
The Lawns to Legumes program offers a combination of workshops, coaching, planting guides and cost-share funding (individual support grants) for installing pollinator-friendly native plantings in residential lawns. The program also includes Pollinator Pathways grants, which are pollinator programs run by local governments and nonprofit organizations with support from the MN Board of Water & Soil Resources (BWSR), and a public education campaign to raise awareness about creating pollinator habitat.
Ramsey County Master Gardener’s Resources: