Welcoming Wednesday Webinar #2: Pollinator Habitat, March 26 2025
- Kriss Marion
- Apr 21
- 2 min read
For this Minnesota Women in Conservation Welcoming Wednesday Webinar on March 26, 2025, we focused on Pollinator Habitat.
Webinar Hosts: Noreen Thomas, MNWiC North West Region Coordinator, Doubting Thomas Farms and Alex Kiminski, MNWiC West Central Region Coordinator, Land Stewardship Project
Conservation Professionals: Noelle Harden, UMN Extension Educator, Health & Nutrition Karin Jokela, Pollinator Conservation Specialist, Xerces Society NRCS Partner Biologist, Minnesota
Conservation Mentor: Noreen Thomas, Doubting Thomas Farms, Senior Fellow at University of Minnesota
Noelle Harden is a University of Minnesota Extension Educator, gardener, and pollinator advocate. In 2020, she received a permit from Moorhead to plant one of the city's first "boulegardens" (boulevard garden) and a Lawn-to-Legumes grant, which she used to establish a backyard pollinator paradise. Noelle will share her personal experiences and highlight the ways that all of us can help pollinators thrive in our yards, neighborhoods, and communities.
Karin Jokela is a pollinator conservation specialist with the Xerces Society. She collaborates with NRCS staff in Minnesota and Wisconsin to provide individual consulting to farmers on habitat restoration and biodiversity conservation, and serves as an adviser to staff of other conservation organizations. Karin received her M.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Iowa State University. She and her husband also steward land near Cannon Falls, MN, where they have managed a variety of enterprises, including organic vegetables, a native plant nursery, Kernza, and small ruminant livestock, among others. Biodiversity cultivation is a central tenet of their operation.
Noreen Thomas is a well-know innovative conservation farmer at Doubting Thomas Farms in Moorhead. She's a Senior Fellow at University of Minnesota, working with beginning farmers. Noreen is also the North West Region Network Coordinator for MNWiC.
About Minnesota Women in Conservation
Minnesota Women in Conservation (MNWiC) is a project of Renewing the Countryside in partnership with the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). MNWiC's mission is to engage women in conservation conversations, connecting them with the tools and resources needed to develop their own goals. We facilitate Regional Networks to help all women of every experience level to learn and to implement practices in their own spaces, both urban both rural. We are here to nurture land and community. Join us!
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Some helpful links that were shared in the chat:
Salts in curbside plantings https://bluethumb.org/smart-salting-f...
Lawns to Legumes https://bwsr.state.mn.us/l2l
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