Good evening!
Early IREM meeting tomorrow so I wanted to get Quercus News out tonight – you
Serviceberry in Fall
can check it out before it is sent to our clients! This Quercus News has a little different feel than our last few newsletters. It is a tad more laid back echoing the fall season.
Let me know what you think and have a great day!
Brad
Can you believe how much we lucked out on the weather this year? Friday was wet and Sunday was blustery while Saturday was perfect!
Thank you very much to everyone who helped make Hearts & Hammers possible for our
homeowners. They are going to be so happy when they get home and see all we did for them. Here are some of our pictures from the day – click here for our gallery.
A special thank you to few people: Pat Haggerty from Marsden for all of her work as co-chair, Dennis Meadows for stepping in as our ‘Construction Guy’ on short notice, Wendy Madsen for her great leadership of the Community Outreach Committee, Ron Vantine for taking all of his pictures and to Kim Ihle, IREM President, for her continued support of Hearts & Hammers.
Thank you very much for volunteering and I look forward to seeing you next year for a great day of service for a family in need.
Best regards,
Brad Tabke, CLP
Good morning!
Today I am giving a presentation titled “Designing and Maintaining Your Landscape to Protect our Lakes and Rivers” for Ryan Companies at their Brown Bag seminars. They use these seminars on different topics to promote Work/Life Balance and I am happy to help out.
I hope to post the presentation on here in the near future, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are the slideshow notes.
Also, visit our knowledge base for more resources on landscape for water quality.
Have a great day!
Brad
Good Fall afternoon! (bums me out to say that)
Tomorrow I am giving a presentation at Ryan Companies at their Brown Bag Seminars (promoting work/life balance. Ryan is great!) about how to improve water quality with your own landscape and ran across this wonderful booklet from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) called “Green Spaces, Clean Waters. Landscaping ideas to improve water quality along the Mississippi River.”
It has ideas for your commercial sites, home and neighborhood. Check the booklet cover below (opens as pdf) and have a great day!
Brad
This is the first I’ve heard about this for some reason, but the new MN Gopher football stadium will be one of the first to receive LEED Certfication. Congratulations!
http://www.alumni.umn.edu/Stadium_Update3.html
The stadium gained certification from the Green Building Council by being built on a formerly polluted site, unique stormwater retention, utilizing local and recycled materials and heat from the University’s steam plant.
Have a great day!
Brad
Here’s a great opportunity if you’d like to learn more about prairie plants. Three Rivers Park District is collecting seed in their 800 acres of prairie.
Three Rivers Park District : Help Restore the Prairie.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Brad
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