Native Plants Work

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What is the Lower Midwest?

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Grow Native! helps protect and restore biodiversity by increasing conservation awareness of native plants and their effective use in urban, suburban, and rural developed landscapes of the Lower Midwest—Missouri, southwestern Illinois, northern Arkansas, and eastern Kansas.

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Grow Native! Events

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Grow Native! Webinar: Transforming a Yard from Invasives to Natives with Carrie Coyne

July 6, 2022 at Zoom

Runge Prairie Tour and Missouri Bumble Bee Atlas Training with Doug Helmers

July 9, 2022 at Runge Prairie

Field Trip: Bellefontaine Evergreen Hill Natural Areas

July 16, 2022 at Bellefontaine Cemetery & Arboretum

Field Trip: Bellefontaine Tree Walk

October 13, 2022 at Bellefontaine Cemetery & Arboretum

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NATIVE PLANTS WORK

Choose native plants and put them to work for you:

Beautify your surroundings and fill your landscape with life!
Sustain the hundreds of species of pollinators of the lower Midwest
Feed monarch butterflies and help ensure that their awe-inspiring migration forever remains a wonder of planet Earth!
Support native songbirds
Manage stormwater and protect streams
Store carbon with deep-rooted natives
Build healthy soil
Provide drought-tolerant forage for livestock and use natives in other ways on farms
Provide native edibles for people–pawpaws, elderberries, persimmons, walnuts and more!
Create and enhance habitat for wildlife

Find out more on our Learn page.

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Now Hiring: Missouri Prairie Foundation and Grow Native! Operations Assistant

June 21, 2022

Missouri Prairie Foundation and Grow Native! Operations Assistant Full-time (40 hours a week) or 3/4-time (30 hours a week) position, the duties of which involve supporting the work of the Missouri Prairie Foundation's (MPF’s) Executive Director, Director of Prairie...

June 4, 2022: Rural Land Stewardship Field Day

April 29, 2022

9 a.m. - noon @ 300 East Fox Hollow Road (4 miles west of Ashland, MO) Presented and hosted by Grow Native! Professional Member Bill Ruppert on behalf of Blue Fox Farm, Fox Hollow Forest, and Three Creeks Farm & Forest. Admission is free but pre-registration by...

Callery Pear Buy-Back Events: April 26, 2022

March 16, 2022

The Missouri Invasive Plant Council (MoIP), in partnership with Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, will host a Callery pear “buy-back” program on April 26 in Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Columbia, Joplin, and Cape Girardeau. Native to China, Callery pear trees (Pyrus...

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Grow Native! Webinars and Master Classes

The Missouri Prairie Foundation and its Grow Native! program are hosting biweekly virtual webinars and master classes to learn more about native plants, natural communities, and more.

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