GRANITE FALLS, Minn — The upcoming episode of Prairie Yard & Garden (PY&G) will feature how Connexus Energy produces bees, flowers and native plants along with solar energy on Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. on Pioneer Public Television. The episode will be repeated on Saturday, March 23 at 4 p.m. and Monday, March 25 at 1 p.m. and will be available for online viewing at www.pioneer.org/pyg immediately after broadcast.
Host Mary Holm travels to Ramsey to learn how Minnesota’s largest electric cooperative has filled the landscaping below its solar panels with wildflowers and other plants that promote a healthy home for pollinators and a place for beehives used to produce Connexus Energy’s special “solar honey.”
Mary Holm of Morris has served as the host of PY&G for five years. PY&G is produced by the University of Minnesota, Morris in collaboration with Pioneer Public Television. Production sponsorship is provided by ACIRA, Heartland Motors, Diamond Willow Assisted Living and Shalom Hill Farm.
About the University of Minnesota, Morris
UMM has been ranked 19 times as a Top 10 Public Liberal Arts College by U.S. News and World Report. The student-centered public university features a 15:1 student to faculty ratio, affordable tuition, small class sizes and modern research facilities. For more information visit www.morris.umn.edu
About Pioneer Public Television
Pioneer Public TV is an award-winning, viewer-supported television station serving western and southwestern Minnesota, northwestern Iowa and the eastern Dakotas. The station can be viewed on KWCM Channel 10 in the Appleton area, KSMN Channel 20 in Worthington and K49FA in Fergus Falls as well as on dozens of cable channels and on satellite channels in the Twin Cities and Sioux Falls Designated Market Area (DMA). Online programming is available at video.pioneer.org.
