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Kim Palmer

Reporter | Home+Garden

Phone: 612-673-4784

E-mail: kpalmer@startribune.com

Kim Palmer covers home design, home-based lifestyle trends, gardening and collecting for the Home & Garden section.

Recent content from Kim Palmer

Move or improve?
If you can't decide whether to buy a new house or fix up the one you've got, this weekend is for you. For the first time, the Builders Association of the Twin Cities has combined the four-week Parade of Homes, featuring new construction, with the three-day Remodelers Showcase.
Sep 9, 2009
Golden opportunity
A Minneapolis couple celebrate their 50th anniversary with a unique gift to the neighborhood - rain gardens for everyone on their block.
Aug 26, 2009
Cabin contrast
"Going up north" is an Upper Midwest summer ritual, and the desire for a cabin of one's own seems hard-wired into our psyche. But the vision of the perfect getaway home is as varied as our thousands of lakes.
Aug 4, 2009
Growth opportunity
A local public relations company created a garden to connect to its clients and offer its employees an unusual - and healthy - benefit.
Jul 17, 2009
Eating the landscape
Head past the vegetable patch to enjoy some of these incredible edibles from the flower garden or the forest.
Jul 15, 2009
Got fruit to share?
Minnesota city dwellers can register their trees with a new program that will harvest the surplus for food shelves.
Jul 14, 2009
Ag play
Jodi Lancaster tends two plots of land. There's her real-world garden in Montgomery, Minn., where she grows actual vegetables. And there's her online farmstead at Farm Town, a Facebook game where she tends virtual crops.
Jul 7, 2009
Before and after
An inventive designer used items she had on hand to turn a simple gazebo into a dramatic outdoor oasis.
Jul 1, 2009
The big chill: Cellars are on the rise
Wine has a room of its own in a growing number of homes. And that room isn't just for storage -- it's getting the full design treatment.
Jun 30, 2009
The buzz: Urban beekeepers are a growing colony
Home is where the hive is for urban beekeepers, who hope to improve their gardens, produce honey or protect this misunderstood - and possibly endangered - insect.
Jun 23, 2009


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