Old Main Inn

05/25/2026

Let yarrow grow! Most of the yard of Suomi Opisto is native yarrow! Here are a few reasons why we should encourage its growth

Yarrow can catapult the success of your garden. A medicinal powerhouse and an essential herb in the permaculture garden, here are 5 reasons to grow yarrow.

05/25/2026

46 Birds recorded today at Suomi Opisto 5/24/2026!!
New Birds first
Cape May Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Northern Parula
Wilson's Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Broad-winged Hawk
Northern Mockingbird
Northern House Wren
Hermit Thrush
Northern Yellow Warbler
Red-eyed Vireo
Eastern Phoebe?
Gray Catbird?
American Pipit
Bay-breasted Warbler
American Redstart
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Killdeer
spotted Sandpiper
Chipping Sparrow
American Robin
Song Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
American Goldfinch
Savannah Sparrow
Blue Jay
American Goldfinch
Black-capped Chickadee
Chimney Swift
Dark-eyed Junco
Common Grackle
Redpoll
Pine Siskin
European Starling
American Herring Gull
Red-winged Blackbird
American Crow
Ring-billed Gull
Northern Flicker
Northern Yellow Warbler
Cedar Waxwing
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
White-throated Sparrow

05/22/2026

SeedKeepers has planted lingonberry and high bush and low bush blueberry as well as other edible plants native to our area at Suomi Opisto.

05/22/2026

31 Birds so far today at Suomi Opisto! (shown house wren and orange crowned warbler)
American Robin
Black-capped Chickadee
American Goldfinch
Northern House Wren
Blue Jay
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Indigo Bunting
White-crowned Sparrow
Mourning Dove
Northern Cardinal
Ring-billed Gull
European Starling
Red-tailed Hawk
American Herring Gull
Cape May Warbler
Killdeer
Northern Mockingbird
Pine Siskin
Chimney Swift
American Crow
Savannah Sparrow
orange-crowned warbler
Red-breasted Nuthatch
American Tree Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Mockingbird
American Pipit
Redpoll

05/22/2026

I'm a huge proponent of this. Our weather isn't going to get calmer in the coming years and decades, that's for sure.

Link in comments.

Here's the post from MSP Emergency Management & Homeland Security Division :

🌪️Thinking about installing a tornado safe room at your primary residence? Applications are now being accepted for the Michigan Safe Room Rebate Program. If selected, homeowners may receive a rebate covering 75% of eligible costs to install and construct a tornado safe room.

Check the comments section below to apply or learn more about program eligibility, requirements and rules.

Michigan State Police | | | | |

05/22/2026

Have you RSVPed to our end-of-year garden celebration? We have lots of fun in store for the kids to really send the year off right!

Our friends from Keweenaw Wild Ones will be on site leading us through a native species lesson. Students will take home their very own native plant!

Children's author Kelsey Gross will be joining us for a story and a song.

We'll also plant a salsa garden (and EAT fresh salsa) with Ms. Jen!

And more! Sign up here for Garden Day afterschool: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054CA4AC28A7FAC34-59249675-farm?useFullSite=true #/

05/22/2026

Some of the old slate chalk board was left up in the attic. We rehung it in the main dining room of OMi! We can see 'Congratulations on your Marriage". "Happy Birthday" and "Happy Anniversary" welcoming people to events.

05/22/2026

Fresh pineapple and bananas probably caramel corn, ice cream. What a lovely place.

𝗕𝗲𝗿𝘁 & 𝗔𝗺𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻’𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗞𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻

05/20/2026

A Savannah Sparrow doesnt seem to be bothered by the fact that I'm sitting 10 feet away.

05/20/2026

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