The Little Prairie at Little Prairie Community Garden
GHF is excited to establish and maintain a native plant demonstration garden at Little Prairie Community Garden in Lawrence! Lovingly named The Little Prairie at Little Prairie Community Garden, GHF has created a new native plant garden to create habitat for pollinators that will benefit the both the community garden and the surrounding ecosystem.
As we maintain and grow the garden, we will be hosting workshops that will provide active, hands-on native plant gardening education. This approach will help us both create a wonderful garden space for our community and cultivate a space for folks to learn more about native plant gardening. We will be documenting our process as a resource for other gardeners looking for an example of how a garden may progress through the seasons.
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Spring Native Plant Gardening Workshops
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The workshops cover many of the basics of native plant gardening, including planning and basic garden design, prepping the garden site, selecting proper plants, and planting and early garden maintenance. After our presentation and discussion, we invite you to join us in our native garden to put some of these skills to the test and help us continue to maintain and grow our educational garden space. Feel free to bring a lawn chair or a blanket to sit on while we talk.
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We welcome gardeners of all ages and abilities to participate in these our workshops and to help us take care of this garden. One of the key goals of this project, keeping with the goals of Little Prairie Community Garden as a whole, is to provide a space for those interested in gardening who may not have a space to garden in of their own. This garden is being built by our community and for our community and we are honored to continue facilitating such an exciting project.
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Check back in with us next spring for our workshop schedule!
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Little Prairie Community Garden is a city-sponsored community garden located just north of Peterson Park on Nigel Drive in Lawrence (Click here for the location). The community garden is allotted over an acre of land and is designated as a community garden through a program sponsored by the city of Lawrence called Common Ground. Our native plant garden is located along the southwest corner of the garden area, with room to expand in future years. To learn more about Little Prairie Community Garden, visit their Facebook page.
About Little Prairie Community Garden
