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Free garden tour Tuesday in county

The Carlton County Master Gardeners is offering a self-guided tour of gardens in the Barnum and Mahtowa area 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, July 16. Highlights of the tour will be yards with perennials, vegetables and a pumpkin patch, a lake home with a woodland garden featuring trilliums, Jack-in-the-pulpit, toad lilies and Lady’s Slippers, a residence with beehives and fruit trees and, as an added bonus, a local grass-fed beef and pasture-raised pork and poultry farm.

Maps for this free event are available at the Extension office in Carlton, TJ’s in Mahtowa, the Barnum Little Store and on the Carlton County Master Gardener Facebook page. Call the Extension office at 218-384-3511 for more.