Category: Plants

Backyard Farming – Part 2

Once you have all the planning complete, it is time to get your (aka your children’s) hands dirty.  There are four major ways to get rid of the existing turf.  Let’s start with the most labor intensive and the one that will occupy your children the longest (beware, the amount of work involved initially may be inversely proportional to the …

Backyard Farming – Part 1

So…you are tired of those high grocery bills and want to dig up some of that beautiful green turf and try your hand at becoming a backyard farmer.  No doubt you also have rosy images of your children helping to tend the garden and harvest the bounty you have produced; in the process instilling a deep connection with nature and …

This Year’s Line Up from the Nebraska Arboreteum

This year’s Great Plants line up has proven itself off the field, but can it perform in the heat as it now takes center stage?  Only time will tell but thus far, these players have shown great ability to tough it out here in the midst of the great plains. The prairie player this year sizes up to it’s competition …


Andrea Shaw
Andrea Shaw
Andrea Shaw