MnSEED Stories: Jeff Parsons
Jeff Parsons MSHS and MnSEED member responded to our request for project member stories. Jeff, one of the MnSEED top documentors, lives in Inver Grove Heights where he has been removing invasive species, recording what native plants were present when he started the project, and adding to his restoration as he goes.
“As I work on the garden, I have been planting native plants- shrubs like Nanny Berry and Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle, grasses like Prairie Dropseed and Little Bluestem, and a variety of wildflowers.”
After watching the webinars available through Minnesota State Horticultural Society and inspired by the design advice of Cheryl Culbreth his goal is to restore this wooded garden with shade loving natives and plants appropriate to one of Minnesota’s most endangered ecosystems, the oak savanna, on his south facing slope.
“My main goal is to provide an ecological benefit through my landscaping, that it may be become habitat for a variety of insects and birds.”
You’ll also see that Jeff has adopted many of the best practices from Britt Forsberg’s iNaturalist Orientation webinar . One of note is the use of an object for size reference. In Jeff’s observations you may find a ruler used.
Jeff joined the MnSEED Native Plant Community Science Project wanting to learn how to collect seeds from the native plants he’s identifying on his farm. Follow him as a MnSEED project and iNaturalist community member as he grows.
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Happy documenting,
MnSEED team
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