The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is encouraging residents to plant a variety of native plants in their gardens to support local pollinators. By selecting plants that bloom from spring to ...

Iowa’s landscape has drastically changed from a couple hundred years ago. Less than 0.1% of Iowa’s native prairie is left. Pockets can be found in tiny plots around the state, pushed aside by cities, ...

An increasing number of gardeners want to create pollinator gardens to give a helping hand to this struggling group of insects. While it can be fun to create a garden area with a specific theme, the ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa — In 2016, the Iowa Farm Service Agency, worked with Iowa farmers and landowners to convert 97,371 acres of cropland to new pollinator habitat plantings by utilizing the Conservation ...