As a statewide organization, MAEE tries to serve EE professionals throughout the state, but we can’t be everywhere at once, so we need your help! We would like to express our gratitude to our new Regional Advocates: Kayla and Forrest; and new Advocacy volunteer, River! Welcome to our Northwest Regional Advocate Kayla Rauchwarter, based in …
By Uma Campbell Are you looking for new ways to keep kids busy after school and on the weekends? Luckily, there’s one fun project that is perfect for kids of all ages, and it’s educational, too! Dedicate your time with your kids to teaching them about climate change and why everyone on the planet needs …
By Conference Scholarship Recipient Dan Gruhlke, Pinewood Elementary School, Monticello, MN Saturday, August 6, 2016 was a beautiful morning for this year’s MAEE “Grow in the Open” Conference with a clear sky, little wind, temp.’s just under the averages, and low humidity! I wish I could’ve only bicycled to the Conference as I had desired, and that was probably my biggest …
By: Ethan Lewis, former MAEE Board Member On July 16th, the organization I work with participated in the Eat Local Farm Tour. We had approximately 300 people come out to our farm to learn about chickens and their benefits, take wagon rides out into the fields and do family activities. It was a very visual demonstration of …
By: Liz Hasty My husband and I recently moved in to our first home. It is quite the upgrade from the tiny condo we moved out of including the backyard space. The previous owners of the house had put raised garden beds in the backyard and my husband and I couldn’t wait to get our …
By: Angela Bianco This spring, Dawn Publications donated 3 of their new spring books, Over the Farm, Green Bean! Green Bean!, and Wild Ones: Observing City Critters to us. I wanted to try to these books with my elementary students. The book that I used with 4th grade students was Wild Ones. This is a …
By: Molly Phipps, MAEE Board President The Growing West Side Seed Library (Seed Library) is a small, volunteer-run program which distributes flower and vegetable seeds to community members in the West Side neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Seed Library strives to educate and engage the local community in topics of gardening and sustainability. Goals …
Tell Minnesota decision-makers: Protect our Pollinators! Minnesotans are doing what we can to protect bees. But to turn the tide on pollinator decline, we need our decision-makers like you to step up and create stronger policies at the state level to protect our pollinators. Minnesota needs policies that truly protect pollinators: Restrict neonicotinoids: Neonics are …
School gardens are alive and well in Minnesota! With a packed house of over 350 attendees, the 4th annual Minnesota Schoolyard Garden Conference was a success. Teachers, parents, administrators, master gardeners, and other school garden practitioners and supporters came from all over the state for this one-day event hosted by the Minnesota Schoolyard Garden Coalition, …
By: Jennifer Parker When those first beautiful white hexagonal crystals fall in late November, even the most cynical and seasoned Minnesotans secretly feel that thrill of childhood, complete with an inward squeal of excitement. By the time February rolls around however, the stark white and bitterly cold rhythm of a Minnesota winter is one that …