Brooke

Wild Berries of Northern Minnesota: Two Easy Berries to Identify and Forage This Summer

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July kicks off berry-picking season, and I couldn’t be more excited. If you’ve ever wanted to try foraging but weren’t sure where to start, wild raspberries and blackberries are two of the easiest berries to identify in northern Minnesota. They grow naturally throughout Zone 3, they’re plentiful, and chances are you’ve already eaten them countless … Read more

Zone 3 Gardening: What I’m Growing This Summer (and Why)

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Don’t complicate it. Plant what you like. Plant what you’ll eat. It sounds obvious, but it took me years to figure that out. I’ve planted plenty of vegetables simply because they looked beautiful in seed catalogs or because someone on the internet convinced me I needed to grow them. Rainbow Swiss chard? Gorgeous. Kohlrabi? Interesting. … Read more