Butterflies need protection at times, invite butterflies to seek refuge in your backyard with a butterfly house made by you! Master Gardener Intern Wayne VanMersbergen will guide you as you build yours at this workshop. The house features a hinge and latch to allow you to maintain roosting materials inside the house for the visitors. […]
MAHASKA COUNTY – Due to inclement weather, the Go Red Open House originally set for Tuesday, February 12 was postponed to Tuesday, February 26. Mahaska Health will be hosting the free open house from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Cedar Bluff Learning Center in honor of American Heart Month. Cardiologist Dr. Phillip Bear […]
An average home with a roof size of 1,000 square feet will generate approximately 600 gallons of water from a one inch rainfall. By collecting and using this water to water plants in their landscape, rain barrel users help reduce the demand on water supplies, and reduce storm water runoff. The Mahaska County Master Gardeners […]
The Mahaska County Extension office will be hosting “What’s Up Wednesdays” this spring (March – May); on Wednesdays 11:45 am – 1:15 pm. These informal conversations will be about various topics during the free lunch and learn. Bring your own lunch, have your questions answered, and join the conversation! What Up Wednesdays will offer a […]
Year Round Indoor Salad Gardening is Garden Basics topic Come learn from Master Gardener Intern Krysta Wendelboe, about how you can grow salad—year round—indoors at this upcoming Garden Basic class Thursday February 21 at 6:30 pm at the Mahaska County Extension Auditorium, 212 North I Street Oskaloosa. It is easier than you think! Garden Basics […]
The deadline for entering Iowa Poetry Association’s (IPA) 74th Annual “Lyrical Iowa” competition is February 28 and is open to interested poetry writers, said Pam Blomgren, IPA’s representative for Mahaska County. “Lyrical Iowa” is an annual anthology comprised of poems written by Iowa writers of all ages. Each year, top-ranking poems are awarded cash prizes […]
It’s a Saturday morning by the river where a volunteer stands with binoculars trained on the tallest tree in the vicinity. In this tree is a one ton nest, home to two bald eagles and their young. Are there two or three young in that nest? Hard to tell and a follow up visit will […]
There will be a heaping helping of meatball comedy when the Fremont Lions Community Theatre takes to the stage Feb. 15-17 in its annual production, “Million Dollar Meatballs.” This year marks the 37th year the group of thespians have taken to the Fremont School stage to entertain theatregoers with comedy. This year’s production does not […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Music enthusiasts will be treated to a one night only performance from one of the top college choirs in Iowa on Friday night February 8th. The Wartburg College Castle Singers, as well as The Wartburg Kammerstreicher Chamber String Orchestra, perform at the Central United Methodist Church in Oskaloosa at 7:30 pm. The […]
“Borrowing the anything-goes spirit of lunatic innocence from the musicals of the 1920s…. A wild and crazy sick joke set to music, it’s a funny show!” – Leo Seligsohn, New York Newsday by Lily Vernooy, Lucky Stiff Marketing Team member Lucky Stiff mixes “the zany antics of a Marx Brothers movie with a preposterous plot […]
