Happy Dancing Blog

Jim Chamberlin

Long Game of Soil Health Reduces Drought Impact

Well into the drought this summer, I drove by a corn field east of Brainerd and was surprised how healthy the corn looked. Just a mile or...

nwoodworth

Nature Notes: Bumble Bees, Blooms, & Bachelors

If you’re looking to get an up-close look at bumble bees, late summer and early fall is the time to do it. You can often find “sleeping”...

Jenny Hill

Air Quality: The What and What You Can Do

There has been no shortage of examples lately on why you might be thinking about air quality. The summer of 2023 saw a record number of...

Jenny Hill

Rs for Resilient Living: Back to School

I was a school-loving nerd, so all the late August back-to-school rituals were memorable and fun for me. Until college, when I started to...

HDT Team

Many Sustainability Wins in New Farms 2 Food Shelf Program

Use of food shelves in the Northern Lakes area increased dramatically during the pandemic and has continued to grow post-pandemic. For...

Jim Chamberlin

Digging Into the Lives of Dung Beetles

Dung beetles came late in my soil health journey. More than three decades after becoming an “organic” farming advocate, the dung beetle...

Jim Chamberlin

Grassland 2.0 Update

Grassland 2.0 is a social project involving grass, water, cows, and people. On a recent Saturday, a group of around 30 people gathered at...

HDT Team

We Are Water MN's Ripple Effect

For eight weeks, from late April to mid-June 2023, Happy Dancing Turtle was fortunate to host the We Are Water MN exhibit on the Hunt...

Jenny Hill

Adventures in Sustainability: Food Waste and Some Great Alternatives

The numbers are sobering: According to the Environmental Defense Fund, 160 billion pounds of food goes uneaten every year in the United...

HDT Team

Garden Tips: Recipes with Nettles and Chive Blossoms

“Use what you've got" is a phrase that is a building block for sustainable living. In this post we share two recent examples of seasonal...