Loved for its relaxed, informal and romantic style, prairie planting seeks to replicate the American prairies of the Midwest. Using native species and minimal human input, prairie gardens continue to ...

Manicured lawns are out; wild, pollinator-friendly meadows are in. Here’s how to turn your Northern Michigan yard into a pocket prairie filled with native plants. This article first appeared in ...

Healthy prairie community with grey-headed coneflower and bee balm. (Photo by Liz Koziol) The North American prairie once covered 170 million acres, making it the largest ecosystem on the continent, ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

To establish prairie, you first need to get rid of whatever is already growing on the land. This can be difficult for people dedicated to the environment because the most common and successful way is ...

Tyler Kruse pulls weeds away from various prairie plants while tending to his pocket prairie on his property in Oxford, Iowa on Monday, July 28, 2025. Kruse said he consulted with a professional ...

Rosa arkansana, one of several plants known as prairie roses in the United States, is native to 21 states (including Ohio) and grows primarily between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachians, from ...

MOORHEAD — Andrew Brownlow knelt on mowed grass beside a semicircle designed to bring back the prairie to urban areas. Gingerly, he slipped a swamp milkweed plug into a hole and packed the earth ...