Loved for its relaxed, informal and romantic style, prairie planting seeks to replicate the American prairies of the Midwest.

Prairies used to cover a swath of America from Mexico to Canada. But not all prairies are the same. Different conditions dictate each prairie ecosystem, and thus what plants and animals exist in each ...

Drew Erickson removes weeds from a pocket prairie at the Ericksons’ home in Marion last Saturday. The Ericksons began building their prairie four years ago. The process started with placing a tarp ...

An unbroken landscape of grasses and wildflowers stretches as far as the eye can see, punctuated only by a collection of dots on a distant hill. It’s a herd of bison, my binoculars reveal. What I ...