Rachel's Property Solutions

09/11/2026

The Patriot Day Celebration set for this weekend was CANCELED a month and a half ago. It just fell apart. See you next year.

07/02/2026

"*Join Us in Making History!"
Rachel’s Property Solutions is proud to host a three-day community celebration at University
Park on "September 10-12, 2026", honoring " America's 250th Birthday" while
commemorating the 25th Anniversary of September 11, 2001"
We`re looking for ""vendors, food trucks, sponsors, and volunteer musicians"* to help make this an unforgettable event. Vendor spaces are available in *10x10 and 10x20* sizes, with a layout similar to ArtFest. The event will also feature a car show, family games, the playground, water features, and activities throughout the park.
Best of all, 100% of event proceeds will be donated to Journey Home Animal Rescue, the
Grand Forks Children's Museum, and a Grand Forks program serving homeless veterans.
If you'd like to showcase your business, share your music, or support a meaningful community event, we'd love to have you join us. Help us celebrate, remember, and give back - all in one incredible weekend.
Email [email protected] or text/call 701.215.6220

06/28/2026

Now this is a flyer that I am VERY proud to put out there. The bottom lines are "Your Property. Our Priority." This includes pet waste removal, lawn care, yard cleanup, and junk removal. We do more service but these are our top 4. Remember folks, Rachel's P**p N' Scoop and Other Services, LLC was our original name and we officially became a business in Grand Forks May 1, 2017.

06/15/2026

The First Annual Patriot Day Festival and Car Show has been APPROVED! Sept 10-12, 2026 Park

05/07/2026

Hello everyone. Just a quick little reminder that CommunityVotes - Grand Forks is still going through to June. There has truly been A LOT going on for me and my company (both bad and good) and wanted to let y'all know that I keep busy, every day, getting all of my folks taken care of. And adding more folks. Both in town and out of town. The categories we are in: Pet Waste Removal, pet service, lawn care maintenance and landscaping and design. So, you do you and we will keep being us.
Thank you to everyone that has supported us all these years. Keep it coming in. Proud Army veteran

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05/04/2026

04/22/2026

Before the first mow of the season, walk the lawn once. The whole thing takes ten minutes and it catches what the mower can't see.

A doe leaves her fawn in the tall-grass strip along a fence line. The fawn lies flat and stays still — her instinct is to hide, not run. She's nearly invisible from standing height.

A cottontail rabbit nests in a shallow dip in the middle of the lawn, covered with grass and belly fur. The kits are small and don't move.

A bumblebee queen digs into bare soil at a lawn edge to start a colony. She's just below the surface.

Ground-nesting sparrows build nests that are invisible from above.

None of them are visible from behind a mower deck. All of them are in the areas you're about to cut.

🌿 The ten-minute check before the first mow:

- Walk the lawn slowly before starting — especially fence lines, brushy corners, unmowed strips, and any flat patch you haven't walked through recently
- Look for ears pressed flat, small patches of fur, or a quarter-sized hole in the dirt with bees entering and exiting
- If you find anything, reroute around that area for the next two to three weeks
- Raise the deck to the highest setting — three to four inches instead of two. Every inch of height is clearance for what's underneath
- Skip the edges for the first few mows of the season — the edges are where most of them are

The mow takes twenty minutes. The walk takes ten. Do both 🌿

04/01/2026

I am not a frog. I'm a toad. And the difference tells you why I'm in your garden instead of your pond.

I'm an American Toad. Every child who's ever picked me up has said I found a frog. I'm not. The distinction matters because it explains everything about where I live and what I do.

Frogs have smooth moist skin that needs to stay wet. My skin is dry, thick, and bumpy. I can sit on your patio for hours without drying out. Frogs live in or near water their entire adult lives. I live in your garden. I come to water once a year — for a few days in April to breed. The rest of the year I'm on land. Under your hosta. Behind the AC unit. In the mulch along your foundation.

Frogs have long powerful legs built for leaping. Mine are short and built for walking. I don't leap. I hop. Short stubby purposeful hops. I walk more than I hop.

I'm nocturnal. Active from dusk to dawn. I eat dozens of insects every night — beetles, slugs, ants, mosquitoes, cutworms, earwigs, caterpillars, moths. Over an active season from April through September, one toad removes thousands of insects from your garden. I don't eat your plants. I eat what eats your plants.

The bumps on my skin aren't warts. You can't get warts from touching me — that's a human virus and I'm an amphibian. The bumps are glands that produce a bitter compound. A dog that bites me will drool and paw at its mouth. It won't try again. The compound is a defense, not a danger to you — handling a toad and washing your hands afterward is fine.

I lay eggs in long double strands wrapped around submerged vegetation — not the jelly clumps you see from frogs. If you've seen long dark strings of tiny beads in a shallow pond in April, those are toad eggs.

I've been living within thirty feet of your back door since last spring. You've never seen me because I work at night and spend the day under cover.

🐸 How to keep a toad in your garden:

- A shallow dish of water sunk to ground level gives me a place to rehydrate at night — I absorb water through my skin by sitting in it, not by drinking
- A clay pot turned on its side or propped up with a stone in a shady corner becomes a daytime shelter I'll use all season
- Leave leaf litter and mulch undisturbed in garden beds — that's where I hide during the day and where I find most of my prey at night
- Skip slug pellets and broad-spectrum insecticides — they kill the insects I eat and can poison me directly through my skin
- A toad that finds a yard with shelter, water, and insects stays for years. I return to the same garden every spring

I'm not a frog. I'm the reason your garden has fewer slugs than your neighbor's 🌿