by Erika Van Vranken | October 4, 2023 | Blog, News
Every year, the St. Louis and St. Charles Area Chapters of Wild Ones, with the support of Grow Native!, sponsor the Landscape Challenge, which encourages homeowners to landscape with native plants. Each program chooses a lucky homeowner whose yard receives a makeover,...
by Erika Van Vranken | August 24, 2023 | Blog, News
The Missouri Prairie Foundation / Grow Native! is now an approved provider for the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LACES)! LACES establishes, maintains, and enforces standards for evaluating professional development and continuing education...
by Erika Van Vranken | August 9, 2023 | Blog, News
Five additional sites have been inducted into the Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program, which showcases native landscaping styles in the lower Midwest. The five new sites are in Missouri and include locations in Marthasville, Jackson, and St. Joseph, as...
by Erika Van Vranken | January 6, 2023 | Blog, News
On December 9, MPF’s Grow Native! program offered the first test of the newly launched Grow Native! Professional Certification program (GNPCP). This inaugural testing session was open only to Grow Native! professional members. The four objectives of the GNPCP...
by Erika Van Vranken | November 22, 2022 | News
Position Title Prairie Stewardship Assistant. 24 to 40 hours weekly. This is a field position that does not report to an office. Position located in Springfield or Joplin areas, or in any of the following counties: Lawrence, Dade, Benton, St. Clair, Barton, Vernon,...
by Erika Van Vranken | November 4, 2022 | News
Five additional sites have been inducted into the Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program, which showcases native landscaping styles in the lower Midwest. The five new sites include locations in St. Louis and St. Charles, Missouri, and Bentonville, Arkansas,...
by Erika Van Vranken | October 14, 2022 | Blog
By Carol Davit, Missouri Prairie Foundation Executive Director Photo of leaves in native plant bed: Carol Davit. Through the mastery and mystery of plant chemistry, leaf abscission occurs every fall in woodlands and forests, and petioles detach from deciduous tree and...
by Erika Van Vranken | September 28, 2022 | Blog
By Carol Davit, Missouri Prairie Foundation Executive Director Photo of rigid goldenrod (Solidago rigida) and blue sage (Salvia azurea) at Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Snowball Hill Prairie: Bruce Schuette. On prairies, prairie plantings, native gardens, many...
by Erika Van Vranken | September 12, 2022 | News
The Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Annual Dinner, held virtually on August 27, 2022, was a celebration of Missouri’s prairie legacy. During the event, the 56-year-old prairie conservation organization and land trust paid tribute to four awardees. “Missouri’s remaining...
by Erika Van Vranken | July 27, 2022 | Blog
By Erica Ballard Recently, the migratory monarch butterfly was added to the International Union for Conservation’s (IUCN) endangered species red list. As these declining butterflies depend entirely on milkweed as host plants during their caterpillar stage, programs...
