Photo Credit: Summer – Minnesota DNR; Winter – Adam Janke, ISU

This week we are talking all things scary – invasive species! Come back every day to learn a little about garlic mustard, reed canary grass, honeysuckle, multiflora rose, and buckthorn.

Photo Credit: Danae Wolfe, The Nature Conservancy

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, March 13th
at 1pm CT for our next virtual field day, "Evaluating
Rotations of Cover Crops and Summer Annual
Forages" with Chris Clark, Erika Lundy-Woolfolk, and
Patrick Wall.

Find more information and register by
visiting our website:
www.iowalearningfarms.org/events-1

Request the Conservation Station for Summer 2025!

The Conservation Station’s online request system for Summer 2025 is officially open!

Submit your request by March 31 for priority consideration.

Learn more about requesting the Conservation Station here: www.iowalearningfarms.org/conservation...

Monarch Butterflies - we love them AND
need them! Learn more about adding beneficial
monarch (and all pollinators) habitat in our next
webinar on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

Well deserved congratulations to ILF farmer partner Wendy Johnson, co-owner of JÓIA FOOD FARM, on receiving the 2024 Women Impacting Agriculture Award!
www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2024-wo...

Or you can only see the residue the earthworm has started to pull under, but you can lift the midden and see its tunnel. #WorldSoilDay

Next spring and summer- look for earthworm middens or mounds of soil and plant residue. Sometimes you can even see the earthworm's tunnel which is about the size of a pencil eraser.