October 2, 2025 • 17 mins
In this episode of the Minnesota Gardening Podcast, host Brad Tabke reflects on personal challenges and the importance of community in gardening. He introduces the Minnesota Gardening EFSS's Framework, which focuses on eliminating chemicals, feeding pollinators, saving water, and storing carbon. Brad discusses the Landscape Wellness Stages, guiding listeners from standard maintenance to thriving landscapes. He emphasizes the significance of community involvement and announces a membership drive aimed at fostering healthy landscapes and environmental stewardship.
Minnesota Gardening is holding a membership drive in the month of October to gain 100 new members. This week only - you can join with an annual membership of just $197.
--> Click here to save 56% off our monthly membership at MinnesotaGardening.com.
With just 100 Minnesota Gardening Members moving from standard landscape practices to a healthy, thriving landscape, together in ten years we could:
- Eliminate 7,500 gallons of herbicide used (!)
- Support 90,000 birds (!!)
- Provide habitat for over a million pollinators (!!!)
--> Click here to save 56% off our monthly membership at MinnesotaGardening.com.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:05):
All right, hello and welcome, my friend, to the
Minnesota Gardening Podcast.
It is my honor to have you herewith us today.
My name is Brad Tadke, and I'mthe host of the Minnesota
Gardening Podcast, where we worktogether for healthy landscapes.
And so we've been making uh alot of changes here at Minnesota
Gardening over the last twomonths, really.
(00:27):
It's uh it's been a rough year,and as I've mentioned before,
we've been going through a lotof struggles in uh family and
business and all those kinds ofthings.
And I just want to say thank youso very much to everyone who has
been continuing to support ushere at Minnesota Gardening and
here to work together on thingsabout a uh year ago, a little
(00:47):
over a year ago, my fatherpassed away, and so that was
obviously hard.
And then my good friend wasassassinated, um, and her
husband and their dog wereassassinated in June, and that
was really, really hard.
I'm all for those who don'tknow, I'm uh member of the
Minnesota State House.
I represent Shakapee at thelegislature, and uh that was
really hard for our family andfor me and for everything.
(01:11):
So we had a lot of uh a lot ofwork to do in healing over this
summer, and uh it has beenactually going great of late.
So uh it has been reallyuplifting and welcoming for
everyone who has been reachingout and checking in and uh all
our friends and family who'vebeen taking care of us, and so I
just wanna A be extremelythankful for all of that work.
(01:35):
And so, with that, uh over thecourse, like I said, last couple
months, we've really been takinga deep dive into what makes
sense with Minnesota gardeningand what makes sense to what
makes sense for the future andhow we can best impact and make
a difference and hold each otheraccountable for what we are
doing and how we are doing ourlandscape.
(01:56):
And so I'll get into the how ofthat in just a little bit.
But I have two two main pointsthat I want to uh talk about
today, and they're two differentframeworks that I think really,
really work well for what we arecollectively trying to
accomplish here at MinnesotaGardening.
And I would love, love, loveyour feedback.
So make sure to leave a comment,make sure to shoot me an email
(02:17):
at Brad atMinnesotaGardening.com and would
love to chat with everybodyabout what you really, really
care about and what you really,really want to accomplish.
And what I want to accomplish ishealthy landscapes.
I want to make sure that we areworking together as a community
(02:37):
to help eliminate chemical use.
I want to make sure that we areworking together to feed
pollinators.
I want to make sure that we areworking together to save our
clean, precious, precious waterthat we have here in the upper
Midwest.
I also want to make sure thatwe're mitigating climate change
by making sure that we arestoring carbon on our
properties.
And I think the best way thatindividual homeowners and people
(03:00):
can do this, so there'sobviously larger scale
government actions and differentthings that have to happen that
way, but everybody needssomething to do to help
contribute to this problem.
And little actions will add upto big actions.
And I want to make sure that weare helping people switch to
healthy landscapes in theirhome, at the properties,
(03:22):
wherever they can, thataccomplishes those four things.
And so those four things arewhat we now at Minnesota
Gardening call the MinnesotaGarden F's framework.
So EFSS.
Eliminate chemicals, feedpollinators, save water, store
carbon.
EFSS.
And we want to do that together.
We want to make sure that we areworking together, that
(03:45):
collectively, over the hundredsof people who are members of
Minnesota Gardening canliterally reduce thousands of
gallons of chemicals that areput on our properties for
killing pesticides, pesticides,for killing, you know, weeds,
for killing insects, and thosekinds of things.
We want to make sure that thoseare there.
We want to plant thousands ofplants together that will
(04:07):
support pollinators, willsupport native bees, will
support songbirds, will supportother wildlife and local
ecosystems from, you know,lizards and caterpillars and
salamanders and all those thingsthat if you're a solid Gen Xer
like me, you you had growing upthat just don't exist in nature
any longer in our localecosystems.
And so we want to make sure thatwe are providing those types of
(04:30):
resources to help people get tothose next steps where we're
able to have healthy, thrivinglandscapes at each and every one
of our homes for people who wantto care about it, because
there's a lot of people whodon't.
And it is not a judgment, it'sjust the fact that a lot of
people are too busy.
A lot of people have differentpriorities for what they want to
get done.
And I want to make sure here atMinnesota Gardening that we are
(04:52):
providing as much as we possiblycan for people to have success
in those that F's framework foreliminating chemicals, feeding
pollinators, saving water, andstoring carbon.
And so I've been talking alittle bit lately about kind of
my my origin story on things.
And so for those of you whodon't know me, I grew up on a
farm in Northwest Iowa.
(05:13):
And so I'm a farm kid, andgraduated from college at Iowa
State with a horticulture anddesign degree and moved to
Chicago, where I learnedlandscape maintenance.
And so learned solid standardlandscape maintenance from a
wonderful, wonderful company whowas doing really great work.
And then a couple years afterthat, we moved to Minnesota,
where my wife and I started acompany here in Shacopee, and we
(05:35):
did solid landscape maintenance.
And so we tried really hard tomove folks into more healthy
landscapes.
So we used, we spent a ton moremoney on organic fertilizer.
So we used turkey manure-basedfertilizers.
We tried to plant as manyhelpful plants as we possibly
could, but it was a little earlyand people weren't totally ready
for that sort of environmental,local ecosystem kinds of things.
(05:57):
They really, really wanted justlush green grass with not a
single dandelion and that's whatthey wanted, especially on a
commercial scale for things.
And so, fast forward to COVID,we sold off the operations of
the landscape company and juststarted doing consulting.
And during COVID, we had a bunchof friends who were getting
involved in gardening andstarted Minnesota gardening to
help them know how to plant atree correctly, help them know
(06:20):
what kinds of perennials aregreat for their landscapes, help
them know how to grow vegetablesand how to grow healthy food and
that kind of thing.
So we have kind of through trialand error, struggle, back and
forth, fits and starts here atMinnesota Gardening, come to the
conclusion here that our goaland our charge here is to help
grow, help people switch tohealthy landscapes.
(06:43):
And what I mean by that ismaking sure that we are giving
people, meeting people wherethey're at, and finding a way
for them to evaluate wherethey're at today, what things
they care about, where they wantto go, and kind of plug them
into a continuum of processesand actions and tasks that they
can do on a weekly, monthly,seasonal basis, whatever works
(07:06):
best for them to make progress.
That's what we care about ispeople making progress and being
able to move forward along thatcontinuum and which we call the
landscape wellness stage.
So we have Minnesota Gardenings,landscape wellness stages.
And so with that, we identifywhere people are at.
So we have four stages in thelandscape wellness.
And the first one is juststandard maintenance, where
(07:27):
you've got this quote unquotesuburban type lawn where there
are nothing but grass, maybesome mulch, a few shrubs, and
tons of chemicals are used, tonsof water is used to keep that
lawn up and thriving and greenand with no weeds and that kind
of thing.
So that's the that's thebaseline where we do not want
people to be.
That is dangerous, that isunhealthy.
(07:49):
It is really important forpeople to understand the number
of cases of skyrocketing casesof cancer and carcinogenic uh
chemicals being used are causingthat cancer.
And so there's just been uh overthe course of the last year,
which uh we firmly believe thatthat's what my uh dad passed
away from, is uh cancer causedfrom pesticides.
(08:10):
And uh he was he was taken fromus way, way, way too fast.
And we want to make sure that'skind of turned into my crusade
and how I how I got to where Iam today.
And we want to make sure that weare minimizing exposure as much
as possible.
So we want to help people switchto more healthy landscape
practices where they aren'tusing chemicals on their lawn,
(08:30):
where they have ways of knowingwhat the best possible paths
forward are, and that they don'tneed to uh kill every single
weed and every single insect ontheir property, not just because
that's bad for our localecosystems and uh environment,
but also because it's bad forus.
It's bad for our pets, it's badfor our kids, it's bad for our
grandkids, it's bad for ourspouses and for us and our
(08:51):
partners and whomever you havein your life, your neighbors,
using chemicals is not healthy.
And so we want to make sure thatwe are minimizing and
eliminating that wherever wepossibly can.
So here at Minnesota Gardening,we are working to make sure that
you know how to do that andpeople know how to do it because
people just don't know where tostart right now.
(09:11):
They don't know where to go andwhat to do.
And so that's what we areworking on moving people from
that standard landscapemaintenance type of thing to the
first stage, which is detox.
And so we have a detox stage,which is the vast majority of
people who really do actuallycare about these kinds of things
and they want to make sure thatthey are reducing their chemical
use.
They want to make sure that theyare supporting monarchs and
(09:34):
supporting bees and having thatwork in their backyard and front
yard.
And so that detox stage is justthe first steps on taking,
dipping a toe into this world,which will uh result in healthy,
thriving landscapes for uh ourkids and for our future.
And so we have that as the firststage, and then uh the next
stage is nourish.
(09:55):
And so that is continuing tobuild on those tasks and
activities that we know.
So making sure that year afteryear, month after month, we are
making steps, we are makingprogress.
It's not a wholesale, it doesn'thave to be, it obviously could
be, but it doesn't have to be awholesale change overnight that
you make.
That's really too much.
It is really hard to continuemoving forward when you make
(10:15):
giant changes like that.
It is uh much better to take it,in my opinion, 50 square feet at
a time and uh removing somelawn, adding some pollinator
plants, uh, removing some morelawn and uh reducing some
chemical use and those kinds ofthings, taking those steps.
And so that's what we go throughhere at Minnesota Gardening is
helping you switch to morehealthy landscape practices.
And so that nurse is the um thenext stage, and then the final
(10:38):
stage is thrive.
And so our thriving stage iswhere we are not using any
chemicals, where we aresupporting literally in our
backyards and front yards andour home landscapes, we are
literally supporting millions ofpollinators.
We can do it.
We are supporting hundreds ofthousands of uh of trips for
songbirds.
It takes uh 6,000 caterpillarsto grow a clutch of black capped
(11:02):
chickadees.
And so it's really importantthat we are providing that
habitat for those things to bethriving in our home landscape.
And so those are the stages ofour landscape wellness that we
work from as a standard todetox, to nourish, and to
finally thriving.
And so we helped everyone getthrough those stages and move
forward in that uh continuum sothat we are ending up with
(11:25):
healthy, thriving landscapesthat are safe for your kids and
grandkids to roll around in thegrass, that are safe for your
pets to be outside, that arefeeding pollinators, that are
feeding bumblebees and havingstems where bumblebees and
stem-boring insects are able togrow their young and make sure
that those are available forthose that uh feed our songbird
(11:45):
population, that are savingwater and keeping water on our
properties.
And by having prairie plants andby adding trees and by doing
this work and removing turf, wewill be storing thousands of
pounds of carbon in our soilsand in our plant material that
will help an ever-warming planetso that we are able to do our
part in small doses that add upto really, really big progress.
(12:09):
And so that's what we're workingon here at Minnesota Gardening.
So that is our goal, and that'swhere we're at on things.
And those are some big changesthat we have been making.
And so we have A, the landscapewellness stages, and so there's
standard to detox to nourishingand thriving.
So those are working together tomove forward people on switching
to more healthy landscapepractices and end up with
(12:31):
healthy, thriving landscapes.
And every single stage, we areworking on eliminating
chemicals, feeding pollinators,saving water, and storing
carbon.
And so you're free with me.
I hope that those are thingsthat you are really, really
trying to work toward.
And so here at MinnesotaGardening, we are working on
those landscape wellness stages.
We're also working on the F'sframework every single day,
(12:53):
week, month to help you moveforward and make progress.
And so we have an extra specialdeal for everyone that is only
available this week.
So the first week of October.
October is our membership drivehere at Minnesota Gardening.
We are working to make sure thatwe are adding a hundred new
members to Minnesota Gardeningthis month.
(13:15):
And so we want to add inOctober, we want to add a
hundred new members.
And so uh with that hundred newmembers, what we think will
happen is that we will eliminate7,500, 7,500 gallons of
herbicide used over 10 years.
We will support 90,000 birdsover 10 years, and we will
provide habitat for well over amillion pollinators.
(13:36):
That's what having 100 membersmoving forward from a standard
landscape practices to athriving, healthy landscape will
do for our local ecosystems.
And that's huge, huge changewith just 100 members.
And so I hope you will join as aMinnesota Gardening member.
It uh our annual membership forthis week only uh is the
cheapest you'll ever get uhmoving forward.
(13:58):
Our annual membership is only$197.
So you can join MinnesotaGardening for$197 and help uh
get weekly lessons, have uhseasonal challenges, making sure
that we are working together.
And the biggest part is just anawesome, awesome community of
people who care about the samethings that you care about,
people who care about healthylandscapes, people who care
(14:21):
about the fact that monarchs areon the endangered species list
or on the cusp of the endangeredspecies list, people who have
experienced uh cancer in theirfamilies, who know that these
kinds of things are contributingto our skyrocketing epidemic of
cancer rates in Minnesota andacross the upper Midwest.
And so these are all things thatwe work on together and what
(14:43):
members have as uh weeklylessons and ways that we are
able to move forward together.
And so I really hope um youjoin.
Uh again, we are looking for 100new members, and this week only
an annual membership is$197.
That saves 56% off of the normalmonthly price of$37 a month.
(15:05):
And so I uh hope you can join ifyou go to
MinnesotaGardening.com.
The first thing that shows up isuh our welcome page and uh how
you can join and what we dotogether here at Minnesota
Gardening.
And so again,$197 for the firstweek of October, and I hope you
join.
We will have be having a bigmembership drive all through the
(15:28):
month of October, and this isthe cheapest you will ever get
it.
So if uh you want to uh spendthe least amount of money,
please join Minnesota Gardeningfor$197, and we will work
together switching to make theworld a better place.
And we will switch away fromunhealthy, standard landscape
practices, exposing you and yourfamily to cancer-causing
(15:48):
chemicals, killing pollinatorsand songbirds, wasting our
precious clean water, andcontributing daily to a climate
change and environmentaldisaster, and changing and
switching to a thriving, healthylandscape that is safe for you
and your family, that feedspollinators, that saves water
and stores carbon.
So, again, I hope you can join.
All you need to do is go toMinnesotaGardening.com, and that
(16:09):
will first thing that shows upwill be the annual membership
for$197.
And I hope you join us today.
And so we uh have a new, again,way of delivering material here.
I'll just get to that realquick.
We have weekly lessons.
Uh, so we have monthly themes,weekly lessons, and so those
weekly lessons are put out at uh6 a.m.
(16:29):
every single Monday morning.
And so last month, the month ofSeptember, was Fall Tasks, and
so you can get the lessons onfall tasks in the month of
October.
It's all about soil and thehealthy, thriving soils and what
is living underground that isreally important for making sure
that we are having healthy,thriving landscapes above ground
as well.
So, again, head toMinnesotaGardening.com and join
(16:51):
as an annual membership for$197.
Thank you so much and have awonderful day.
I hope to see you soon as amember of Minnesota Garden.
All right, hello and welcome, my friend, to the
Minnesota Gardening Podcast.
It is my honor to have you herewith us today.
My name is Brad Tadke, and I'mthe host of the Minnesota
Gardening Podcast, where we worktogether for healthy landscapes.
And so we've been making uh alot of changes here at Minnesota
Gardening over the last twomonths, really.
(00:27):
It's uh it's been a rough year,and as I've mentioned before,
we've been going through a lotof struggles in uh family and
business and all those kinds ofthings.
And I just want to say thank youso very much to everyone who has
been continuing to support ushere at Minnesota Gardening and
here to work together on thingsabout a uh year ago, a little
(00:47):
over a year ago, my fatherpassed away, and so that was
obviously hard.
And then my good friend wasassassinated, um, and her
husband and their dog wereassassinated in June, and that
was really, really hard.
I'm all for those who don'tknow, I'm uh member of the
Minnesota State House.
I represent Shakapee at thelegislature, and uh that was
really hard for our family andfor me and for everything.
(01:11):
So we had a lot of uh a lot ofwork to do in healing over this
summer, and uh it has beenactually going great of late.
So uh it has been reallyuplifting and welcoming for
everyone who has been reachingout and checking in and uh all
our friends and family who'vebeen taking care of us, and so I
just wanna A be extremelythankful for all of that work.
(01:35):
And so, with that, uh over thecourse, like I said, last couple
months, we've really been takinga deep dive into what makes
sense with Minnesota gardeningand what makes sense to what
makes sense for the future andhow we can best impact and make
a difference and hold each otheraccountable for what we are
doing and how we are doing ourlandscape.
(01:56):
And so I'll get into the how ofthat in just a little bit.
But I have two two main pointsthat I want to uh talk about
today, and they're two differentframeworks that I think really,
really work well for what we arecollectively trying to
accomplish here at MinnesotaGardening.
And I would love, love, loveyour feedback.
So make sure to leave a comment,make sure to shoot me an email
(02:17):
at Brad atMinnesotaGardening.com and would
love to chat with everybodyabout what you really, really
care about and what you really,really want to accomplish.
And what I want to accomplish ishealthy landscapes.
I want to make sure that we areworking together as a community
(02:37):
to help eliminate chemical use.
I want to make sure that we areworking together to feed
pollinators.
I want to make sure that we areworking together to save our
clean, precious, precious waterthat we have here in the upper
Midwest.
I also want to make sure thatwe're mitigating climate change
by making sure that we arestoring carbon on our
properties.
And I think the best way thatindividual homeowners and people
(03:00):
can do this, so there'sobviously larger scale
government actions and differentthings that have to happen that
way, but everybody needssomething to do to help
contribute to this problem.
And little actions will add upto big actions.
And I want to make sure that weare helping people switch to
healthy landscapes in theirhome, at the properties,
(03:22):
wherever they can, thataccomplishes those four things.
And so those four things arewhat we now at Minnesota
Gardening call the MinnesotaGarden F's framework.
So EFSS.
Eliminate chemicals, feedpollinators, save water, store
carbon.
EFSS.
And we want to do that together.
We want to make sure that we areworking together, that
(03:45):
collectively, over the hundredsof people who are members of
Minnesota Gardening canliterally reduce thousands of
gallons of chemicals that areput on our properties for
killing pesticides, pesticides,for killing, you know, weeds,
for killing insects, and thosekinds of things.
We want to make sure that thoseare there.
We want to plant thousands ofplants together that will
(04:07):
support pollinators, willsupport native bees, will
support songbirds, will supportother wildlife and local
ecosystems from, you know,lizards and caterpillars and
salamanders and all those thingsthat if you're a solid Gen Xer
like me, you you had growing upthat just don't exist in nature
any longer in our localecosystems.
And so we want to make sure thatwe are providing those types of
(04:30):
resources to help people get tothose next steps where we're
able to have healthy, thrivinglandscapes at each and every one
of our homes for people who wantto care about it, because
there's a lot of people whodon't.
And it is not a judgment, it'sjust the fact that a lot of
people are too busy.
A lot of people have differentpriorities for what they want to
get done.
And I want to make sure here atMinnesota Gardening that we are
(04:52):
providing as much as we possiblycan for people to have success
in those that F's framework foreliminating chemicals, feeding
pollinators, saving water, andstoring carbon.
And so I've been talking alittle bit lately about kind of
my my origin story on things.
And so for those of you whodon't know me, I grew up on a
farm in Northwest Iowa.
(05:13):
And so I'm a farm kid, andgraduated from college at Iowa
State with a horticulture anddesign degree and moved to
Chicago, where I learnedlandscape maintenance.
And so learned solid standardlandscape maintenance from a
wonderful, wonderful company whowas doing really great work.
And then a couple years afterthat, we moved to Minnesota,
where my wife and I started acompany here in Shacopee, and we
(05:35):
did solid landscape maintenance.
And so we tried really hard tomove folks into more healthy
landscapes.
So we used, we spent a ton moremoney on organic fertilizer.
So we used turkey manure-basedfertilizers.
We tried to plant as manyhelpful plants as we possibly
could, but it was a little earlyand people weren't totally ready
for that sort of environmental,local ecosystem kinds of things.
(05:57):
They really, really wanted justlush green grass with not a
single dandelion and that's whatthey wanted, especially on a
commercial scale for things.
And so, fast forward to COVID,we sold off the operations of
the landscape company and juststarted doing consulting.
And during COVID, we had a bunchof friends who were getting
involved in gardening andstarted Minnesota gardening to
help them know how to plant atree correctly, help them know
(06:20):
what kinds of perennials aregreat for their landscapes, help
them know how to grow vegetablesand how to grow healthy food and
that kind of thing.
So we have kind of through trialand error, struggle, back and
forth, fits and starts here atMinnesota Gardening, come to the
conclusion here that our goaland our charge here is to help
grow, help people switch tohealthy landscapes.
(06:43):
And what I mean by that ismaking sure that we are giving
people, meeting people wherethey're at, and finding a way
for them to evaluate wherethey're at today, what things
they care about, where they wantto go, and kind of plug them
into a continuum of processesand actions and tasks that they
can do on a weekly, monthly,seasonal basis, whatever works
(07:06):
best for them to make progress.
That's what we care about ispeople making progress and being
able to move forward along thatcontinuum and which we call the
landscape wellness stage.
So we have Minnesota Gardenings,landscape wellness stages.
And so with that, we identifywhere people are at.
So we have four stages in thelandscape wellness.
And the first one is juststandard maintenance, where
(07:27):
you've got this quote unquotesuburban type lawn where there
are nothing but grass, maybesome mulch, a few shrubs, and
tons of chemicals are used, tonsof water is used to keep that
lawn up and thriving and greenand with no weeds and that kind
of thing.
So that's the that's thebaseline where we do not want
people to be.
That is dangerous, that isunhealthy.
(07:49):
It is really important forpeople to understand the number
of cases of skyrocketing casesof cancer and carcinogenic uh
chemicals being used are causingthat cancer.
And so there's just been uh overthe course of the last year,
which uh we firmly believe thatthat's what my uh dad passed
away from, is uh cancer causedfrom pesticides.
(08:10):
And uh he was he was taken fromus way, way, way too fast.
And we want to make sure that'skind of turned into my crusade
and how I how I got to where Iam today.
And we want to make sure that weare minimizing exposure as much
as possible.
So we want to help people switchto more healthy landscape
practices where they aren'tusing chemicals on their lawn,
(08:30):
where they have ways of knowingwhat the best possible paths
forward are, and that they don'tneed to uh kill every single
weed and every single insect ontheir property, not just because
that's bad for our localecosystems and uh environment,
but also because it's bad forus.
It's bad for our pets, it's badfor our kids, it's bad for our
grandkids, it's bad for ourspouses and for us and our
(08:51):
partners and whomever you havein your life, your neighbors,
using chemicals is not healthy.
And so we want to make sure thatwe are minimizing and
eliminating that wherever wepossibly can.
So here at Minnesota Gardening,we are working to make sure that
you know how to do that andpeople know how to do it because
people just don't know where tostart right now.
(09:11):
They don't know where to go andwhat to do.
And so that's what we areworking on moving people from
that standard landscapemaintenance type of thing to the
first stage, which is detox.
And so we have a detox stage,which is the vast majority of
people who really do actuallycare about these kinds of things
and they want to make sure thatthey are reducing their chemical
use.
They want to make sure that theyare supporting monarchs and
(09:34):
supporting bees and having thatwork in their backyard and front
yard.
And so that detox stage is justthe first steps on taking,
dipping a toe into this world,which will uh result in healthy,
thriving landscapes for uh ourkids and for our future.
And so we have that as the firststage, and then uh the next
stage is nourish.
(09:55):
And so that is continuing tobuild on those tasks and
activities that we know.
So making sure that year afteryear, month after month, we are
making steps, we are makingprogress.
It's not a wholesale, it doesn'thave to be, it obviously could
be, but it doesn't have to be awholesale change overnight that
you make.
That's really too much.
It is really hard to continuemoving forward when you make
(10:15):
giant changes like that.
It is uh much better to take it,in my opinion, 50 square feet at
a time and uh removing somelawn, adding some pollinator
plants, uh, removing some morelawn and uh reducing some
chemical use and those kinds ofthings, taking those steps.
And so that's what we go throughhere at Minnesota Gardening is
helping you switch to morehealthy landscape practices.
And so that nurse is the um thenext stage, and then the final
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stage is thrive.
And so our thriving stage iswhere we are not using any
chemicals, where we aresupporting literally in our
backyards and front yards andour home landscapes, we are
literally supporting millions ofpollinators.
We can do it.
We are supporting hundreds ofthousands of uh of trips for
songbirds.
It takes uh 6,000 caterpillarsto grow a clutch of black capped
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chickadees.
And so it's really importantthat we are providing that
habitat for those things to bethriving in our home landscape.
And so those are the stages ofour landscape wellness that we
work from as a standard todetox, to nourish, and to
finally thriving.
And so we helped everyone getthrough those stages and move
forward in that uh continuum sothat we are ending up with
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healthy, thriving landscapesthat are safe for your kids and
grandkids to roll around in thegrass, that are safe for your
pets to be outside, that arefeeding pollinators, that are
feeding bumblebees and havingstems where bumblebees and
stem-boring insects are able togrow their young and make sure
that those are available forthose that uh feed our songbird
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population, that are savingwater and keeping water on our
properties.
And by having prairie plants andby adding trees and by doing
this work and removing turf, wewill be storing thousands of
pounds of carbon in our soilsand in our plant material that
will help an ever-warming planetso that we are able to do our
part in small doses that add upto really, really big progress.
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And so that's what we're workingon here at Minnesota Gardening.
So that is our goal, and that'swhere we're at on things.
And those are some big changesthat we have been making.
And so we have A, the landscapewellness stages, and so there's
standard to detox to nourishingand thriving.
So those are working together tomove forward people on switching
to more healthy landscapepractices and end up with
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healthy, thriving landscapes.
And every single stage, we areworking on eliminating
chemicals, feeding pollinators,saving water, and storing
carbon.
And so you're free with me.
I hope that those are thingsthat you are really, really
trying to work toward.
And so here at MinnesotaGardening, we are working on
those landscape wellness stages.
We're also working on the F'sframework every single day,
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week, month to help you moveforward and make progress.
And so we have an extra specialdeal for everyone that is only
available this week.
So the first week of October.
October is our membership drivehere at Minnesota Gardening.
We are working to make sure thatwe are adding a hundred new
members to Minnesota Gardeningthis month.
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And so we want to add inOctober, we want to add a
hundred new members.
And so uh with that hundred newmembers, what we think will
happen is that we will eliminate7,500, 7,500 gallons of
herbicide used over 10 years.
We will support 90,000 birdsover 10 years, and we will
provide habitat for well over amillion pollinators.
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That's what having 100 membersmoving forward from a standard
landscape practices to athriving, healthy landscape will
do for our local ecosystems.
And that's huge, huge changewith just 100 members.
And so I hope you will join as aMinnesota Gardening member.
It uh our annual membership forthis week only uh is the
cheapest you'll ever get uhmoving forward.
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Our annual membership is only$197.
So you can join MinnesotaGardening for$197 and help uh
get weekly lessons, have uhseasonal challenges, making sure
that we are working together.
And the biggest part is just anawesome, awesome community of
people who care about the samethings that you care about,
people who care about healthylandscapes, people who care
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about the fact that monarchs areon the endangered species list
or on the cusp of the endangeredspecies list, people who have
experienced uh cancer in theirfamilies, who know that these
kinds of things are contributingto our skyrocketing epidemic of
cancer rates in Minnesota andacross the upper Midwest.
And so these are all things thatwe work on together and what
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members have as uh weeklylessons and ways that we are
able to move forward together.
And so I really hope um youjoin.
Uh again, we are looking for 100new members, and this week only
an annual membership is$197.
That saves 56% off of the normalmonthly price of$37 a month.
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And so I uh hope you can join ifyou go to
MinnesotaGardening.com.
The first thing that shows up isuh our welcome page and uh how
you can join and what we dotogether here at Minnesota
Gardening.
And so again,$197 for the firstweek of October, and I hope you
join.
We will have be having a bigmembership drive all through the
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month of October, and this isthe cheapest you will ever get
it.
So if uh you want to uh spendthe least amount of money,
please join Minnesota Gardeningfor$197, and we will work
together switching to make theworld a better place.
And we will switch away fromunhealthy, standard landscape
practices, exposing you and yourfamily to cancer-causing
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chemicals, killing pollinatorsand songbirds, wasting our
precious clean water, andcontributing daily to a climate
change and environmentaldisaster, and changing and
switching to a thriving, healthylandscape that is safe for you
and your family, that feedspollinators, that saves water
and stores carbon.
So, again, I hope you can join.
All you need to do is go toMinnesotaGardening.com, and that
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will first thing that shows upwill be the annual membership
for$197.
And I hope you join us today.
And so we uh have a new, again,way of delivering material here.
I'll just get to that realquick.
We have weekly lessons.
Uh, so we have monthly themes,weekly lessons, and so those
weekly lessons are put out at uh6 a.m.
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every single Monday morning.
And so last month, the month ofSeptember, was Fall Tasks, and
so you can get the lessons onfall tasks in the month of
October.
It's all about soil and thehealthy, thriving soils and what
is living underground that isreally important for making sure
that we are having healthy,thriving landscapes above ground
as well.
So, again, head toMinnesotaGardening.com and join
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as an annual membership for$197.
Thank you so much and have awonderful day.
I hope to see you soon as amember of Minnesota Garden.
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