pollinators

By Paige Boyle

For many years, white clover (Trifolium repens) has been the go-to for adding flowering resources into lawns, and with good reason. White clover is a perennial, has a broad geographic range, can grow in both warm- and cool-season lawns, handles mowing well, and produces an abundance of flowers to provide pollinator forage (both pollen and nectar) in bee lawns. As a bonus, because white clover is a legume, it also adds nitrogen into the soil, resulting in less need for fertilizer applications. But are there other clover options for use in home lawns?

Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work. An article on "Slow Mow Summer" in Sierra, the magazine for the Sierra Club, features comments from Turfgrass Extension Educator Jon Trappe.

See Blossoms Over Blades: Embrace "Slow Mow Summer" for a Buzz-Worthy Lawn by Anne Readel on the Sierra Club website for the full article!

Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work. Turfgrass Extension Educator Jon Trappe was featured in a local news segment.

Watch New research has scientists rethinking the popular No Mow May idea from a Kare 11 broadcast on April 27, 2023!

It is critically important, and at the heart of what it means to be a sustainabl

By Parker Anderson

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Recently, the Science of the Green Initiative at the University of Minnesota, in partnership with the United States Golf Association (USGA), collected data on golf pace of play to examine the impacts of green speed on pace of play at seven golf courses of differing characteristics around the United States. The implications of the data collected, however, are far greater than just measuring the time each player spent on the putting greens; the results have additional value regarding golf facility sustainability and productivity.

By Parker Anderson

By James Wolfin and Phoebe Koenig - UMN Bee Lab