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Sowing Seed – Lessons Learned

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Mike Saxton

Mike Saxton – Shaw Nature Reserve – Gray Summit, MO Last week we sowed around 1,200 pounds of seed from 302 species over 46 acres of ground at Shaw Nature Reserve. Most of that seed went into a 42 acre … Continue reading →

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The Agony and the Ecstasy of a First Year Prairie

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

By: Mike Saxton – Manager of Ecological Restoration and Land Stewardship at Shaw Nature Reserve – a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden – Gray Summit, MO There are few acts more hopeful than planting prairie. We put so much … Continue reading →

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Does over-seeding prairie plantings work?

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

By Bill Kleiman, Project Director of Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy Have you planted seed into an already established prairie planting, trying to increase floral diversity?  You had that warm hopeful feeling. Those tiny seeds in your hand soon to … Continue reading →

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Planting prairie #97 with the full monty

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

By Bill Kleiman, The Nature Conservancy The photo above is from this season of  a 2010 planting, our 97th at Nachusa Grasslands.  There is a lot of gayfeather and white indigo. Harder to see are the thimbleweed, coreopsis, lupine, various … Continue reading →

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Seed drier

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

by Bill Kleiman, Nachusa Grassland Project Director Updated April 2025 At Nachusa we hand harvest with scissors and buckets several thousand pounds of seed from a few hundred species of plants.  When we bring in our seed it typically needs … Continue reading →

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Adding seed

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

by Stephen Packard [Editor’s note:  For four decades Stephen Packard has been restoring a wide variety of sites.  His comments are notable, and blogposts are great.  I had asked Stephen for advice.   On a new acquisition, we are about to … Continue reading →

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Prairie seed planting machines

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

by Bill Kleiman, Nachusa Grasslands I first saw a picture of an old pull-behind seeder Chris Helzer was using in Nebraska and I started looking for one.  We now have three of these drop seeders.  If you buy one get … Continue reading →

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