Blog | Friends School Plant Sale

Honey bee polllinating a light pink peach flower

Fruit Facts

Drawing of tomatoes on a vine and the text "Name, variety, Latin name".

Some vegetables are better from seed

Solanum nigrum, black dully glossy berries among green leaves

What’s a Garden Huckleberry?

Hands on soil with ginger rhizomes on the soil, green sprouts emerging

Growing Ginger in the North

Female ruby-throated hummingbird feeding on red monarda

The Best Hummingbird Plants at the Sale

Illustration of the Plant Sale at the MN State Fair Grandstand.

Limited Edition T-shirt

Green raffle ticket

BYO Box Raffle

Young malabar spinach plant

So Much Spinach

FSM students standing in front of the Zero Waste tent, holding a sign that says "Where did last year's waste go?". They are standing in front of a large sculplture of a jellyfish, made with recycled items from the sale.

Zero Waste Update 2025

Five middle school students throwing something in a grassland

Seeding Our Future

A drawing of an iris with its parts labeled, including Standard, Beard, Signal and Fall

A Glossary of Terms from the Catalog

Winecamp Mushroom by a log

Grow Your Own Mushrooms

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