Grow Native! Plant Resources for Midwest Farmers and Landowners

If you wish to diversify pastures with native forage, help pollinators on your farm, reduce erosion in your row crops, or plant native trees and shrubs to sell or eat, this resource page is for you.

The time has never been better to use Missouri’s native plants to conserve and beautify your farm.

Our Grow Native! Professional members have experience in

• Preparing seed mixes
• Native plantings
• Prairie and woodland maintenance
• And more!

Visit our Resource Guide to get help with your land.

Please note: articles on the Missouri Prairie Foundation web site have moved. Links to these articles will be updated as soon as possible. In the meantime, please email [email protected] for assistance.

Guides on Planting Natives, Building Value and Other Resources

These Grow Native! and Missouri Prairie Foundation resources show you how to use Missouri’s native grasses, sedges, forbs, shrubs and trees to maximize Farm Bill and other program incentives to achieve superior conservation benefits on your farmland or rural property.

• Using Natives on Your Farm
• Reconstructing a Tallgrass Prairie–A Seeding Guide for Missouri produced by Shaw Nature Reserve and Grow Native!
• Rich Grasslands for Missouri Landowners (PDF 1MB)
• I’ve gotten rid of my fescue, now what do I do? by David Darrow and Steve Clubine (PDF 270KB)
• Grow Native! Native Plants for Erosion Control
• Prairie Strips – incorporating rows of prairie plantings within row crop agriculture curbs erosion and provides for pollinators
• STRIPS – Iowa State University website on the latest in prairie strip research
• Attract and Sustain Pollinators on Your Farm
• Field Guide to Missouri’s Oaks and Hickories
• Missouri Department of Conservation Seedling Order Form (deadline to order is April 15, 2017)
• Plant an Oak! (But not a Pin Oak!)
• Join the Missouri Prairie Foundation to protect precious habitat.
• Make a donation to Grow Native!
• Grazing with Wildlife Management – Missouri Department of Conservation

Missouri Prairie Journal articles for farmers

• Native forage provides benefits to cattle producers, wildlife, and more
• Savannas Woodlands of Northern Missouri
• Northern Missouri Savanna Woodland Plan
• Value of Grassland Shrubs
• Fire Grazing Grassland Management
• Prairie Milkweeds
• Best Management Practices for Problem Plants

Biofuels

• How Will We Limit the Impacts of Biofuels?
• Biomass Crop Assistance Program

Other links

• Seedling identification
• Books, Magazines & Publications
• MO Invasive Plants Task Force (MoIP)
• Pesticide Usage and Native Plants
• Missouri Plant Identification (external website)

Invasive Plants Lists

• Grow Native! Top Ten List of Invasive Plants
• Invasive Non-Native Plants and Nuisance Native Plants control guides (from MDC)

Grow Native! Committee’s Top-10 Lists

View the Grow Native! Committee’s Top Ten picks of native plants for a variety of purposes.