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MSU Extension launches new Wild About Backyard Conservation webinar series
Published on June 8, 2020
Explore ways your backyard can protect and promote wildlife and clean water with MSU Extension experts. -
Celebrate the diversity of caterpillars
Published on June 5, 2020
Free Smart Gardening webinar explores the many types of caterpillars that may be in your garden. -
Smart Gardening with Vegetables 101: Growing your garden tips
Published on June 5, 2020
Follow these vegetable garden steps in June to ensure productivity later. -
Free Smart Gardening Series offered online
Published on June 4, 2020
Join us for online sessions on beekeeping, wildlife damage management, pollinator-friendly landscaping, vegetable garden insects, the Upper Peninsula hotline responder team and garden resources, and tips for using your fruits and vegetables. -
Monarch research takes flight in a social distancing world
Published on June 4, 2020
Responding to restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these field researchers reorganized and are amplifying their monarch conservation study through the power of citizen science. -
New, free poison ivy bulletin available for ID, control and more
Published on June 2, 2020
MSU Extension has released a new bulletin on identifying poison ivy, look-alike species, the irritant substance and options for control. -
Broad-leaved helleborine: A weedy orchid invading lawns and flowerbeds
Published on June 2, 2020
Broad-leaved helleborine is once again causing trouble for those finding it in their lawns and flowerbeds. -
Gypsy moth caterpillars are out and about
Published on June 1, 2020
Oaks and many other trees are likely to be defoliated by gypsy moth this summer in many areas of Lower Michigan. -
Yellow and orange hawkweed flowering in turf
Published on May 28, 2020
Often confused for dandelions, hawkweed is now flowering in lawns. -
Lawns are growing quickly and seedheads are appearing
Published on May 28, 2020
Warm temperatures and abundant precipitation have resulted in rapid turf growth and seedheads are now appearing in lawns.