Category: Green Space & The River

  • Warblers and Tree Leaves

    Warblers and Tree Leaves

    Birds in ParticularHalle O’Falvey [email protected] Just because you show up doesn’t mean the birds are going to show up, too. Visiting the Joel Marsh Wildlife…

  • It’s Spring!

    It’s Spring!

    Garden ViewsKent Petterson How are you doing with planting in your vegetable garden?  The weather has rolled out as expected for planting. Cold-tolerant plant seeding…

  • Met Council Climate Action Plan

    Met Council Climate Action Plan

    An initiative to create an internal, agency-wide Climate Action Plan is under way. The plan will unify efforts across all Council divisions to further reduce our…

  • A Greener St. Paul

    A Greener St. Paul

    Council PerspectivesSt. Paul City Council Member Rebecca Noeckercolumnist When you think of city government, what comes to mind? For most of us, it’s mundane acts of…

  • Growing Your Sustainable Lawn

    Growing Your Sustainable Lawn

    GARDEN VIEWSBy Kent PettersonA reader named Paul sent me a question about the grass on his boulevard—or should I say lack of it.  As he…

  • Snakes

    Snakes

    BEING WELLErin Brandel Dykhuizen, MA, MSW, LICSWcolumnist There are snakes inside my walls! I wake up some mornings with the thought, wishing it was merely…

  • Way, way up in the sky

    Way, way up in the sky

    Birds in ParticularHALLE O’[email protected] I was driving home from Ely, MN and stopped in the town of Virginia at the food co-op. It resides in…

  • Early March arrivals, late March awakenings

    Early March arrivals, late March awakenings

    Birds in Particular by Halle O’Falvey I am so happy for the month of March to begin, even though predictions are snowy and cold, then mild…

  • We’re almost there

    We’re almost there

    GARDEN VIEWSby Kent Petterson, columnist Hey, vegetable gardening friends—we’re almost there to spring planting time! It may not look like it today, but in a couple…