Best books for prairie plant flower identification, seed harvesting, planting and growing

How do you harvest, clean, store and plant native prairie seeds? These are the best books to educate yourself for all native prairie plants.

Preparing & Wrapping bees for a cold Minnesota winter

How to prepare bees to withstand a cold Minnesota winter. Do you wrap them? What about quilt boxes, candy boards, food and sugar, mouse guards? All of this and more are discussed.

How we Keep Deer Flies and Horse flies from biting – NO Chemicals

Building our farm has brought many unexpected challenges. It's been dirty, difficult, dangerous and expensive. It's easy to idealize the quaint little old fashioned farm - chickens roaming, bees humming, apples drooping - but there's another side to that story: For the last five years we've had an ongoing battle with 3 monsters. Poison ivy, …

How to dry catnip, oregano, basil, and other leafy herbs

Want to grow and dry your own herbs? Have you tried it and wound up with a moldy mess? Don't worry - it's easy and takes less than 5 minutes to dry herbs in your own home, with tools you already own! Because we regularly harvest plant material from our native prairie, we have a …