Join us as we share updates to our Resilient Yard presentation, the spring workshop schedule, and cover how we’ll use Zoom breakout rooms to re-create (as best we can) 1-on-1… Read More →
We’re chugging away, planning our 2021 workshop season. If you’d like to be notified when we launch the registration, please sign up for the Metro Blooms E-Newsletter here. Otherwise, we’ll… Read More →
Blue Thumb is actively engaged in an intentional effort to create equity frameworks for our leadership, our partners and our broader community that infuse understanding and accountability into our work and our relationships in order to build just, inclusive, and equitable communities. This work is shaped by conversations and partner meetings we held in 2019,…
A 3-hour workshop offering a framework for understanding and creating resilience, covering site planning, raingardens, turf alternatives, trees, other plantings, pollinator habitat, and more. Includes information about Lawns to Legumes,… Read More →
The fall is a great time for planning and planting! This 1.5-hour workshop offers a framework for understanding and creating resilience, covering site planning, raingardens, turf alternatives, trees, other plantings,… Read More →
This is your one-stop-shop to understanding and installing low-maintenance lawn alternatives, and understanding the role that healthy soil serves as their foundation. We will discuss alternatives to conventional grass turf… Read More →
Join Blue Thumb partners Bre Bauerly (Minnesota Native Landscapes) & Craig Stark (Ecoscapes) for a two-hour workshop covering the identification, removal, and remediation of the highly-invasive buckthorn shrub on residential… Read More →
A 2-hour workshop focused on alternatives to conventional grass turf that require less watering and fewer chemical inputs, with step-by-step instructions for establishing them. Includes information about pollinator-friendly (bee) lawns… Read More →
A 2-hour workshop focused on alternatives to conventional grass turf that require less watering and fewer chemical inputs, with step-by-step instructions for establishing them. Includes information about pollinator-friendly (bee) lawns… Read More →
A workshop offering a framework for understanding and creating resilience, covering site planning, raingardens, turf alternatives, trees, other plantings, pollinator habitat, and more. Includes information about Lawns to Legumes, a… Read More →
