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...
Golden alexanders (Zizia aurea) and Blue false indigo (Baptisia australis). Photo: Scott Woodbury
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More Sites Added to Native Gardens of Excellence Program in 2023
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...
APA Virtual Luncheon on Land Trusts & Communities April 19
Members of the Missouri Land Trust Coalition, of which MPF serves on the Steering Committee, as well as the Marlborough Community Land Trust, will present on how communities can use land trusts for community planning. If you would like to attend, here is the link,...
New Report Suggests Supply of Native Seeds Insufficient to Meet Current, Future Ecological Restoration Project Needs
This article was first published in January on the www.nationalacademies.org website and is being reposted here, with permission, in its entirety. News Release | January 26, 2023 WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and...
Call for Award Nominations
The Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF), its Grow Native! program, and the Missouri Invasive Plant Council (MoIP), which MPF administers, is now accepting nominations for its Missouri Prairie Foundation awards (prairie pioneer, prairie professional, prairie...
Congratulations to Grow Native! Certified Professionals
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 are to...
Grow Native! Participates in CoMoGives 2022
The Missouri Prairie Foundation's Grow Native! program is proud to once again participate in the annual CoMoGives online fundraiser, beginning on Giving Tuesday, November 29, 2022 and continuing through the end of year. CoMoGives is a project of the Central Missouri...
Now Hiring: Missouri Prairie Foundation Prairie Stewardship Assistant
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,...
Grow Native! Ambassador Award for 2022 Bestowed to Mike Hoyle
During its Grow Native! Professional Member Conference on November 9 in Columbia, Missouri, the Grow Native! program awarded the 2022 Grow Native! Ambassador Award to Mike Hoyle, manager of Missouri Wildflowers Nursery in Brazito, Missouri. “The Grow Native! program...
More Sites Added to Native Gardens of Excellence Program
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,...
Missouri Prairie Foundation Bestows 2022 Awards
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...
Now Hiring: Missouri Prairie Foundation and Grow Native! Operations Assistant
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
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
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...
Grow Native! Ambassador Award for 2021 Bestowed to Bill Straatmann
During its virtual Grow Native! Professional Member Conference on November 3, the Grow Native! program awarded the 2021 Grow Native! Ambassador Award to Bill Straatmann, owner of Straatmann Toyota in Washington, Missouri. Native plants play an important role in...
Virtual 2021 Grow Native! Conference on November 3, 2021
Author Dr. Doug Tallamy will give the keynote address at the virtual 2021 Grow Native! Professional Member Conference, open to all.
Get Your Monarch Garden in a Box Kit at STL Great MonArch Migration Event Sept 25
The National Park Service and the City of St. Louis have invited our Grow Native! professional members to sell pre-ordered native plants and deliver them to the Gateway Arch National Park on Saturday, Sept. 25, in celebration of National Public Lands Day. Gateway Arch...
Native Gardens of Excellence Showcase Outstanding Native Landscaping
Launched on the Grow Native! website on June 29, the Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program features plantings of native plants in designed, well-maintained gardens and in other native landscape plantings in the lower Midwest. “The gardens and landscape...