Boost Natural Systems

Our Minnesota Waters project aims to build and maintain a network of lake associations, river groups, and individual members focused on protecting our lakes, rivers, and streams. We engage [...]

The U of M College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources hosts a plant disease lab. Bring in diseased plant material – leaves, branches, etc – and they can disagnose it.

The University of Minnesota College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences is home to the extension service soil testing lab. Land owners can send samples to be analyzed for a small fee.

Located in Stelle, Illinois, Midwest Permaculture offers permaculture design courses in a small rural community setting, and a variety of online resources. Contact: Email:  [...]

The Beez Kneez is a pedal-powered honey delivery business that manages 150 urban and rural hives. As a result of two confirmed pesticide kills of its hives, BeezKneez formed an advocacy campaign [...]

The Met Council has produced a Local Planning Handbook to help communities update their local comprehensive plans in the areas of land use, transportation, water resources, parks and trails, [...]

The Xerces Society offers comprehensive information on pollinator conservation in any landscape, as well as resources on how to educate about pollinator conservation and become a pollinator [...]

The Bee Lab at the UMN works to promote conservation, health, and diversity of bee pollinators through research and education. The Bee Lab offers beekeeping classes as well as information on how [...]

The Citizen Pruner Program trains volunteers to work within their communities to assist arborists and urban foresters by tackling small, accessible tree maintenance projects. Citizen Pruners are [...]

The MN Tree Care Advisor Program is a volunteer program that develops environmental stewards through education and aims to provide communities in MN with a pool of volunteer “tree [...]