RESOURCES

Habitat Gardening Handouts

Rewild Spring Clean Up
Rewild Fall Clean Up
Stem Nesting (Native Bee) Habitat Practices
No Milkweed, No Monarchs
Keystone Species & Soft Landings

Education & Conservation Organizations

Dakota County Soil & Water
Eloise Butler
Izaak Walton League
Minnesota Wildflowers-info Field Guide to the Flora of Minnesota
MNDNR Invasive Species ID
National Wildlife Federation - Garden For Wildlife
Neighborhood Greening
Nine Mile Creek Watershed
Nokomis naturescape
Sustainable Bloomington
Wild Ones Twin Cities
Wood Lake Nature Center
Xerces Society

Wildlife Must Reads! (Articles/Books/Videos)

Attracting Birds to Your Garden with Native Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass
Noah's Garden
Silent Spring
E-zine - The Butterfly Effect
Heather Holm: Book - Pollinators of Native Plants, & Blog
Article - Milkweed for Monarchs
Video - Salt In Our Water and Winter Home Maintenance
Video - Why Native Plants?
Doug Tallamy Ph.D.: Book - Bringing Nature Home, Book - Nature's Best Hope, Audio - Nature's Best Hope and Video - Doug Tallamy x Wild Ones
Benjamin Vogt:Newsletter, Articles & Books, and Podcast
E-zine - Wild Ones Reflections
Xerces Society: Article - Leave the Leaves, Article - Stem-nesting bees, Book - 100 Plants to Feed the Bees, Book - Attracting Native Pollinators, and Book - Gardening for Butterflies

Plant & Seed Suppliers

Blazing Star Gardens Nursery Plants
Prairie Moon Nursery
Burnsville MN Native Plant Market
Landscape Revivial

Cost Shares & Grants

Hennepin County
Lawns to Legumes
Lower MN River
Nine Mile Creek Watershed Grants
Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek

Citizen Science & Community Action

Audubon "The Great Backyard Bird Count"
Bloomington Natural Resources Stewardship Initiative (BNRSI)
Bumblebee Watch
Citizen Lake Monitoring Program
Citizen Stream Monitoring Program
Dragonfly Pondwatch Project
Firefly Watch
Frog and Toad Calling Survey
Frogwatch USA
Homegrown National Park
iNaturalist
Journey North Monarch Sightings
Loon Watcher Survey
Minnesota Bee Atlas
Monarch Larva Monitoring Project
Wetlands Health Evaluation Program
Zebra Mussel Monitoring Program