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Join us for current conversations on relevant and timely topics affecting our community.
Most of us have heard that we should Grow Native! But why?
This event will be an introduction to Missouri's vanishing prairie ecosystem, how home gardeners can draw inspiration from our native grasslands, and grow native prairie plants in their own yards.
Here are some of the wonderful benefits of native plants:
- Beautify your surroundings and fill your landscape with life!
- Sustain the hundreds of species on pollinators of the lower Midwest
- Feed monarch butterflies and help ensure that their awe inspiring migration forever remains a wonder of planet Earth!
- Support native songbirds
- Manage stormwater and protect streams
- Store carbon with deep-rooted natives
- Build healthy soil
- Provide drought tolerant forage for livestock and use natives in other ways on farms
- Provide native edibles for people - pawpaws, elderberries, persimmons, walnuts and more!
- Create and enhance habitat for wildlife
This event is presented through the Missouri Prairie Foundation and its Grow Native! program
The Library has many titles on native plants. To get started in your search, click on these links: Midwest Plants and Missouri Native Plants
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If you need accommodations for this program, please contact the Library as soon as you are able.