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Roastin' And Compostin'
Do you drink coffee? Don't just throw away your used coffee grounds!
Used coffee grounds are a great natural fertilizer for your flower beds, gardens, and indoor plants (if you already compost you can add it to that too!). Coffee grounds are filled with nutrients essential for your garden, including Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus, and micronutrients. Besides this, it improves drainage, aeration, and water rentention of soil. Finally, coffee grounds can be used to lower the soils natural pH levels and will repel unwanted pests, like slugs and snails.
Thank you to Bean Dash (Grafton, ND) for donating their used coffee grounds to us to promote this idea!
Soil Health Tour
This year we had our annual Soil Health Tour on July 18th, where we toured areas that highlight conservation practices. On our tour, we visited Homme Dam, Oxbow Orchards, the Fordville Aquifer, and a Ducks Unlimited resoration site.
We were lucky enough to have incredible speakers, including Naeem Kalwar (Cavalier County Extension), Trevon Unruh (Oxbow Orchards), Rachel Takala (North Dakota Rural Water Systems Association), Chris Nelson (Natural Resource Conservation Service), and David Bounds (Walsh County Three Rivers Soil Conservation District). We also had a Ducks Unlimited representative speaking about their prairie grass restoration process at a local site.
Arbor Walks
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This year we did two Arbor Day celebrations, our "Arbor Walks"!
In Park River we had a guided tour of the eastern bike path and learned about the tree species lining the path. Thank you to Joel Hylden and Grace Ivesdal (North Dakota Forest Service) for leading the walk.
In Grafton we met in Leistikow Park to discuss pollinator gardens and trees in the park. Master gardener Heather Szklarski gave us a tour of her pollinator garden and showed us how to create our own gardens. Grace Ivesdal of North Dakota Forestry was there as well, she talked about trees in the park and gave some fun facts about them!
