Tips/Blogs from Kerr Center Staff

The Kerr Center’s work with elderberries helps illustrate the importance of long-term research trials for sustainable agriculture.

Landscaping with native plants at the Kerr Center office has taught us to have patience! The landscape takes time to naturalize and attract pollinators.

Despite the COVID-19 shutdown and a string of downpours in this wet spring, work at the ranch continues. Stay tuned for the resumption of workshops!

Creating pollinator habitat can be as simple as a tweak to how you mow your lawn. Start mowing for pollinators and watch the wildflowers blossom!

Visit Okies for Monarchs’ website for a list of nurseries and seed houses that are still open for business. This way, you can do your part to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from becoming yet another factor in pollinator declines.

Here are links to collections of resources to help farmers and ranchers navigate the new challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The most recent monarch numbers don’t look good. Keep planting milkweed, and fall flowering plants, to support them on both legs of their migration!

All ATTRA publications are now free.  The organization has eliminated its paywall, so that you can download as many PDFs as you’d like at no cost.

Farmers and ranchers may apply to enroll grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands signup beginning March 16. The signup runs through May 15. “Through this CRP Grasslands signup, farmers and ranchers can protect…

The “moss rocks” popular in landscaping aren’t what they seem. Learn more about the lichens of Oklahoma with this study guide.