Community of Gardens

I'm an outlier in my neighborhood -- our 1/4 acre lot has less than 1,000' of lawn left on it, and most to of the front yard is a designed prairie garden. I've been careful out front to maintain low plants, carefully mass species, and keep things…

It started as a desire to get kids outside and let them know about two endangered skipper butterfly species and has now blossomed into the current ever-changing butterfly garden and Little Wings on the Prairie festival. In 2013, a grant from the…