Video: Visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord Grass

We have annual, free Prairie Tours each summer.  In this short video, visitors at our August Prairie Tour walk through Prairie Dock, Water Hemlock and Cord Grass. [Steve at Prairie Moon Nursery] The really tall ones are the Silphium terebinthinaceum; Prairie Dock. That’s the one with the true elephant ear type leaves. The really tall [...]

2010 Bare Root Plant Sale!

For those of your subscribed to our blog, we would like to give you a head’s up that our annual Bare Root Plant Sale is now online.  We haven’t sent the mass email yet, so if you act fast, you will get first pick of the reduced price plants! http://www.prairiemoon.com/plants Here is a list of [...]

Fire in Old Fields at Prairie Moon

The spring 2010 burn season has ended for Prairie Moon.  We use prescribed fire to manage prairie plantings, and in some places to encourage native plants that we have seeded into former pastures.  When properly timed, fire sets back aggressive non-native plants like smooth brome and gives an advantage to native forbs like Biennial Gaura, Nodding [...]

A Prairie Moon Tour

We have 2 tours each year, usually June and August.  For those of you wondering how the afternoon goes or if your are unable to attend, we’d like to give you a pictorial tour: Books and seed are available for sale. Depending on how many people show up, we divide into up to 3 groups. [...]

Welcome Andy!

Prairie Moon Nursery welcomes Andy Kranz-McGuire, our newest employee.  He started working as full-time Botanist / Native Seed Specialist on March 31,2010.  Andy will help with plant identification and is learning the many aspects of seed sales. Andy received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Minnesota in 2007. His interdisciplinary curriculum included botany, [...]

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