Hand Tool Maintenance Helps Make Conservation Planting a Snap
May 5, 2016
The Prairie Green school kids spent Earth Day planting wild iris, sweet flag, and sedge sod chunks in our neighbor’s... Read More →
Looking to Outmaneuver Deer Flies?
April 21, 2016
Deer flies love me, and perhaps they love you too. If you don’t know what deer flies are (lucky you!)... Read More →
Microclimates III: How To Recognize Them In The Field
April 14, 2016
Following up on my last two blogs about how microclimates influence plants and animals, I also want to be sure... Read More →
Microclimates II: How Do They Affect Animals?
April 5, 2016
Wasn’t Prairie Preview great? Only two years at the Celebration Barn and we are already overcrowded. Bur Oak Land Trust’s... Read More →
The Native Gardeners Dilemma: What is Really Native?
March 24, 2016
Many years ago a grad student and I embarked on a strip mine reclamation project near Oskaloosa, Iowa. One of... Read More →
Things to be Grateful for, Every Winter
March 10, 2016
Week by week now winter is slowly relinquishing its hold on our landscape. And amongst friends, neighbors, and colleagues, I’m... Read More →
Microclimates are Important to Planting in Southeast Iowa
February 26, 2016
Spring is coming, the nursery catalogs have arrived, and you’re getting anxious to plant something! I’ve found that so many... Read More →
2015 Annual Report for Rare Butterfly/ Rare Plant Project
January 5, 2016
For the last half century, I have seen the habitat values of southeast Iowa steadily diminish, part of a process... Read More →
