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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 ...

Looking to start a little life on the prairie, Alvin College will host a planting event Saturday for the pocket prairie.

The snow had finally melted and the ground was no longer soggy, so I began inspecting our landscape. I wanted to see if our perennial plants had survived the winter. Fortunately, our rose bushes were ...

MAPLE GROVE, Minn -- Weaver Lake Elementary's fifth graders already hold the seeds of knowledge, but the students have been waiting patiently for the day the future grows. "Our class is trying to ...

Early settlers in the upper Mississippi Valley had to make their way through thick, lush grasses that sometimes stood taller than a man on a horse. But over the past two centuries, farmland and turf ...