The Gazette

Experts urge Iowa gardeners to grow native plants this spring

A monarch butterfly forages on an ironweed flower in the native lawn of Karen Rawson in the front yard of her home in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, September 9, 2024. Rawson began replacing ...
Iowa Public Radio

Prairie home companions: Why more farmers are planting native landscapes in their crop fields

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 ...
Mississippi Valley Publishing

OWLS attendees hear about woodland wildflowers

At February’s OWLS (Older, Wiser, Livelier Seniors) presentation at Lee County Conservation, Iowa Department of Natural Resources Forester Lisa Louckdiscussed woodland wildflowers with attendees.
The Gazette

Curious Iowa: How can a backyard garden help butterflies and bees?

Audrey Tucker, 18, of Cedar Rapids plants butterfly weed at the Monarch Research Station in rural Marion on June 3. The Monarch Research Station, part of the Monarch Research Project, cultivates ...
Sioux City Journal

Lakes area business specializes in selling native plants, flowers

FOSTORIA, Iowa -- The old prairie is back. Partners in The Prairie Flower, a new rural Fostoria, Iowa business, gather under the arbor, where native plants and vines are hanging. From left are Bev ...