In August 2024, there was an exciting collaboration between the Boy Scouts, the Golden Valley Historical Society, Golden Valley Community Foundation and Golden Valley Garden Club. With funding from the Golden Valley Foundation's Small Sparks Grant, Dylan Casey (Class of 2025 at Benilde-St. Margaret’s High School and member of Boy Scout Troop 3268 in Golden … Continue reading Demonstration Pollinator Gardens
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Spring Bulb Sale 2024
Our bulb sale is back! If you missed it last year, here's how it works: we sell early spring bulbs for pollinators in bags that will plant about 1 square foot. The prices we charge are our cost - we want to get as many of these bulbs in the ground as possible! These early spring … Continue reading Spring Bulb Sale 2024
2024 Landscape Revival: Native Plant Expo & Market
Don't miss the Saint Paul Audubon Society's Native Plant Expo & Market this coming Saturday, June 1st from 9am-1pm! The event will teach you how to select and grow native plants for pollinators, wildlife, and water quality, along with an excellent opportunity to purchase native plants (no cultivars or systemic insecticides). Come speak to the … Continue reading 2024 Landscape Revival: Native Plant Expo & Market
Russ Henry: Healthy Soil, Happy Gardens (January 2024 meeting)
We kicked off 2024 with an excellent talk by self-proclaimed nature nerd Russ Henry, owner of Minnehaha Falls Landscaping. Russ was knowledgeable, approachable, and helped our club dig into the details of why healthy soil matters, what makes healthy soil, and what destroys healthy soil. While we don't have a recording available, the following is … Continue reading Russ Henry: Healthy Soil, Happy Gardens (January 2024 meeting)
Simple Steps to Help Pollinators
Pollinators are essential to the majority of flowering plants in our environment, including many food plants. Plants need pollinators, in particular bees but also butterflies, flies, moths, beetles, wasps and birds to move pollen from one plant to another. When pollinators are under attack, our food supply is threatened. Pollinators are endangered for a number … Continue reading Simple Steps to Help Pollinators
Pollinator garden at Golden Valley City Hall
Pollinator garden at Golden Valley City Hall
City of Golden Valley passes Pollinator Resolution
Golden Valley City Council unanimously passed a Pollinator Protection and Promoting Habitat Resolution on Tuesday, October 2nd. People for Pollinators, a subcommittee of the Garden Club were involved in this multi-faceted effort. Kudos to members Barb Ego, Jeanne Iverson, Linda Loomis, Sonia Casey, Jeannie Schwartz, Margaret Beegle, Nancy Hazzam, Judy Krause, and Larry Johnson for … Continue reading City of Golden Valley passes Pollinator Resolution
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