Joplin History & Mineral Museum Prairie Restoration
On a cold but sunny January morning, Chert Glades members brought rake and foot-stomping power to seeding native plants into about 5000 square feet of property at the Joplin History & Mineral Museum. The museum envisions prairie-like plantings north and south of the building as well as a garden space for native shrubs and forbs to be planted later this spring.
While the prairie planting will take several years to mature, the garden space, directly in front of the building, should hint at what’s to come later this year! In the future, Chert Glades members envision this space as ideal for showing residents and visitors how beautiful and functional native plants can be for their own yards!
Chapter members worked with volunteers from Liberty Utilities to spread seed supplied through U.S. Fish & Wildlife and Missouri Prairie Foundation.
V. Frankoski
tamping in the seed
Getting directions
C. Naff, R. Naff, A. Wild, V. Frankoski, K. Smith, & E. Bowyer (not pictured Jill Franks & Sara Fischer)
Photos by C. Naff