Category: Green Space & The River

  • Dodge Nature Center: Nourish Your Need For Nature

    Dodge Nature Center: Nourish Your Need For Nature

    Winter Phenology Family Hike: 1/11, 10-11 a.m. at Main Office Entrance 1, 365 Marie Ave W West St. Paul. Hike around Dodge to learn how plants and…

  • Walking Lake Phalen

    Walking Lake Phalen

    by Hallie O’Falvey I was walking around Lake Phalen, recently. It is the second largest and deepest lake in St. Paul proper. It is also…

  • History Revealed at Waldman

    History Revealed at Waldman

    11/14, 7:45pm. John Guthmann & Jim Moffet, Fife & Drum: Military Music of the Civil War. The second Tuesday of each month is Ramsey County Historical Society…

  • Are You a Procrastinating Gardener?

    Are You a Procrastinating Gardener?

    by Kent Petterson Did you forget to plant those hardy bulbs you ordered for planting this fall? Is your ground not frozen? If that is…

  • Dodge Nature Center

    Dodge Nature Center

    O.W.L.S. Chickens in the Barnyard: 11/12, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Farm Entrance 3, 1701 Charlton St. in West St. Paul. From egg, to chick, to adult,…

  • The Fall Garden

    The Fall Garden

    BY KENT PETTERSON There is something peaceful about the fall garden that settles in for me about the end of September. How about you? The harvest isn’t…

  • Great River Passage Conservancy Launches Campaign

    Great River Passage Conservancy Launches Campaign

    The Conservancy is an independent nonprofit organization that leads advocacy and private fundraising efforts for the Great River Passage Initiative in partnership with the City of…

  • Great River Greening Offers Restoration Events

    Great River Greening Offers Restoration Events

    GRG, an environmental organization based in St. Paul, is hosting two public restoration volunteer events this fall – a tree-planting event at Crosby Farm Park…

  • To Peel or Not to Peel

    FOOD MATTERS Take carrots, for instance. But you might also wonder about beets, potatoes, squash. I get asked this question from time to time, from…