Poetry professor turned prairie advocate and author Benjamin Vogt pinpoints a moment in his Minnesota childhood that influenced his current passions. As a boy, exploring a wood near his home in the ...
Decades ago Lady Bird Johnson transformed the highways of the nation with her intrepid support of wildflowers, the perky blooms that continue to beautify the terrain and eliminate costly grooming of ...
Native plants support wildlife and add beauty that is representative of Illinois’ former most-dominant native ecosystem, the prairie. Native plants support wildlife and add beauty that is ...
Drew Erickson removes weeds from a pocket prairie at the Ericksons’ home in Marion last Saturday. The Ericksons began building their prairie four years ago. The process started with placing a tarp ...