Smart Salting for Native Plantings
In the thick of Minnesota midwinter, dealing with snow is a way of life. Clearing snow and ice from roads and sidewalks helps us get around safely. Many of us… Read More →
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Workshops & Online Learning
Beautify your landscape while planting for clean water and pollinator habitat. Blue Thumb workshops give participants the skills to create their own rain gardens, native plantings, pollinator habitat, and more. Use our free online learning series or register for a live workshop!
Landscape Revival
Landscape Revival is organized by the Landscape Revival Committee and the St. Paul Bird Alliance. Stay updated! We’ll send 2-3 emails a year and will never share or sell your contact information.
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Thank you for supporting the Blue Thumb program! A copy of your payment information has been emailed to you. Your partner dues support the Blue Thumb education program to be able to create and update resources, implement equity-centered changes to our programming, and make an impact towards protecting clean water and pollinator habitat. View our…
Partnership Information
How Blue Thumb Partnership Works The Blue Thumb Partnership is a network of clean water and native plant stewards creating change by bridging the gap between knowledge and action, offering resources and programs to Minnesotans. We work together to lead the way in changing landscaping norms among professionals, property owners, and renters. We aspire to…
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Blue Thumb is a program of the non-profit Metro Blooms. Your volunteer hours, donation, or sponsorship with Metro Blooms helps support our Blue Thumb programming and resource development. You can follow our work by subscribing to the Metro Blooms newsletter.
Map Your Pollinator Project
Have you created pollinator habitat in Minnesota through a pocket planting, tree planting, pollinator lawn, pollinator meadow, or other type of native plant landscaping project? If so, add your project to our map so we can track our collective impact! All Minnesotans who map their project can opt-in to receive a Lawns to Legumes yard…
About + Apply
Lawns to Legumes is a planting for pollinators grant program that Blue Thumb facilitates with the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources. Any Minnesotan can apply to receive reimbursement for native planting projects and support at-risk pollinators like the monarch butterfly and rusty patched bumble bee. Each spring and fall, a new cohort of…
Pollinator Lawn
A Pollinator Lawn introduces a diversity of low-growing flowering plants into a typical lawn. This provides forage for pollinators, and the plants have deeper roots that need less watering. If you are not concerned with having a uniform carpet of green lawn in frequently-used areas, this may be the best option to help restore the…