Hard Virtue

Most sales jobs seem to involve, at least to some degree, the overstatement of a product’s attributes in order to stimulate prospective buyers’ desires. TV commercials and advertising of all stripes routinely rely on hyperbole to promote the belief that the touted goods or services can deliver satisfaction of a nearly spiritual nature. By contrast, [...]

Does Prairie Moon Graft Plants?

Recently, a customer asked us whether Prairie Moon Nursery plants are ever grafted. Grafting is the joining of two different varieties or species of plants so that features of both can be exhibited in an individual plant. For example, the small stature of one variety of apple tree may be joined with the good eating [...]

A ‘Convenient’ Rain Garden

I went to the Kwik Trip convenience store/gas station on Cass Street in La Crosse, WI the other day to buy a paper (some people do still read those things) and, coming out, I saw Purple Coneflowers.  I thought, “Well, that’s nice. Someone is planting some nice wildflowers here.”  As I looked closer I saw [...]

Large Woodland Burn

Our local newspaper; The Winona Daily News took some wonderful photos of a large woodland prescribed burn performed by the MN Dept. of Natural Resources on April 9th. From our ridge top office location we watched the smoke billow all afternoon. The burn site is only about 6 miles from Prairie Moon. It was a [...]

Growing Sweet Grass for Incense Braids

Sweet Grass (Hierochloe odorata) is an aromatic, cool-season perennial growing 10 to 24″ high and spreading about 2′ per year by underground rhizomes. Its natural habitat includes wetlands, prairies and savannas in wet and mesic (medium moisture) soils. Many North American indigenous cultures burned sweet grass in ceremonies to invite the presence of good spirits. [...]

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