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Golden alexanders (Zizia aurea) and Blue false indigo (Baptisia australis). Photo: Scott Woodbury
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Author Dr. Doug Tallamy will give the keynote address at the virtual 2021 Grow Native! Professional Member Conference, open to all.
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...
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...
The Missouri Prairie Foundation seeks proposals from experienced contractors for several native planting projects in the St. Louis Area. These multi-year projects will be funded by the Missouri Prairie Foundation via grant funding. Please find the two Requests for...
As the first official day of spring nears, you may find it hard to resist your garden “spring cleaning” urge. However, removing fallen leaves and dead plant stalks from plant beds too soon may in fact harm many of the native bees, overwintering moth cocoons, and other...