Two counties in Iowa have confirmed an invasive species of earthworm called a “jumping worm.” Learn more about the confirmation in today’s announcement – Wednesday, July 25, 2018 – from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship: DUBUQUE, Iowa — An invasive species of earthworm was recently confirmed in Dubuque and Muscatine counties by […]
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Midwestern native chosen to lead Czech m...
The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, named a new president and CEO today. Cecilia Rokusek will succeed Gail Naughton, who retired earlier this summer after 16 years of leading the renowned museum. Related: Gail Naughton’s Memorial Day remarks See other Czech news in Iowa, here, and learn more […]
What the Farm Bureau doesn’t want you to
Fairfield, Iowa, farmer and soil scientist Francis Thicke wrote a response to an editorial on water quality published in the Des Moines Register. Thicke said the June 28 editorial, by Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Naig, contained the “usual misinformation on nitrate put forth by the Farm Bureau and other ag groups.” While the Register […]
Photos: Kolache baking and tour of Bohem...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Czech School students learned how to bake kolaches today, with help from the expert kolache-makers from St. Monica’s Circle at St. Wenceslaus Church. Students rolled balls of the dough, used a glass to form a perfect circle in the center and filled the dough with poppyseed, cherry, apricot and prune filling, […]
Magic in miniature: fairy gardens move i...
By Cindy Hadish/for Lure magazine Josh Spece, co-owner of In the Country Garden & Gifts, was on the cutting edge of a garden trend when his shop in rural Independence opened seven years ago. Fairy gardens were coming in vogue at the time and have since seen their popularity soar, moving into the mainstream with […]
Battling the return of the Japanese beet...
Hopes for a late appearance of the Japanese beetle were dashed when I saw the first cluster of the voracious pests on June 22, a few days to more than a week earlier than I’ve spotted them in the past. The excruciatingly late winter weather in Iowa, which dragged well into April, was followed by […]
Photos: Czech School students learn art ...
Master Czech Folk Artist, Marj Nejdl of Cedar Rapids, led the older division Czech School students through the steps of kraslice, the art of decorating eggs. Students learned how to use wax and dye to create designs and layers of color and even how to blow the yolk out of the eggs, at the Glovik […]
Stewarding our planet’s resources: one r
By Cindy Hadish/for Lure magazine Chris and Eryn Cronbaugh had multiple reasons to “go solar” with their home in Cedar Rapids. The two cited their concern for the environment, a stewardship of the Earth’s resources and economics behind their decision to retrofit the 1929 home with a ground mount system. “It seemed like a good […]
Photos: St. Ludmila Kolach Festival
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Kolach Festival has been an annual tradition at St. Ludmila’s Catholic Church for decades, first getting its start in 1938. This year’s festival, from June 8-10, 2018, was particularly poignant, as St. Ludmila’s School closed at the end of this school year, due to declining enrollment. Part of the Holy […]
Photos: Czech National Cemetery Memorial...
CEDAR RAPIDS – It’s been years since the Czech National Cemetery’s Memorial Day Service was actually held at the cemetery, at 2200 C St. SW in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Weather on Memorial Day in Iowa often fluctuates between wet and dreary and, as was the case today, hot and humid, so the St. Wenceslaus Glovik […]