Tips/Blogs from Kerr Center Staff

The book covers the relationship between the monarch and the milkweed. It is a quality published book with abundant references.

Monarch Watch is now accepting pre-orders for milkweed plants, to be shipped in the spring. Seedlings are sold by the flat, with varieties sorted by region.

David Redhage offers this book review of The Sunflower Family, a new ID guide from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT).

Bird populations are dropping sharply – common and rare species alike. What can you do to help?

SARE”S set of new fact sheets detail the ecosystem services of cover crops: from preventing erosion to protecting songbirds.

Oklahoma-based Johnston Seeds has developed three different pollinator seed mixes tailored for eastern, central and western Oklahoma. 

Modernizing old technologies can make good sense in today’s world. What old technology do you use because it is best for the task?

In 2018, Princeton University Press released an updated 2nd edition of Garden Insects of North America, with over 700 pages and more than 3,000 full color plates. If you wanted one book to help identify garden insects, this is it.

Get trained to monitor monarchs right in your own back yard (or back forty).

The book I am reviewing covers a topic you probably wouldn’t consider important for sustainable agriculture unless it was part of your soil. The book’s title is The World in a Grain: The Story of…