by MoPrairieOps | November 28, 2022 | News
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...
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 Outreach | October 8, 2020 | News
Carol Davit, Executive Director of the Missouri Prairie Foundation, joins Jean Ponzi on the latest Earthworms podcast to talk about the 20th anniversary of MPF’s Grow Native! program. “A 1999 vision seeded by two Missouri women sprouted, the next year, as...
by Outreach | September 22, 2020 | News
Get excited for our new MPF and Grow Native! webinars! Thanks to your post-webinar survey feedback we learned that you want more, so we are bringing back our free webinars as well as new master class webinars! These master classes will give a more in-depth look at...
by Carol Davit | July 17, 2020 | Blog
By Carol Davit, Missouri Prairie Foundation Executive Director Photo: Linda Williams The foundation for insect and other animal life is plants. Not just any plants, but plants native to a given location, where insects in that same geography evolved with those same...
by Carol Davit | July 17, 2020 | Blog
By Carol Davit, Missouri Prairie Foundation Executive Director Photo: Squash bee in a pumpkin blossom by Ed Spevak Did you know native companion plants facilitate pollination of fruits and vegetables? If you are a fruit or vegetable gardener, you likely devote time to...
by MoPrairieOps | July 17, 2020 | News
The Missouri Prairie Foundation’s native plant marketing and education program promotes natives for beautifying landscapes and supporting nature’s web of life. Read about the first 20 years of the program, and visit grownative.org and Grow Native! on Facebook,...