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Growing native wildflowers and grasses can be fun, helpful to native wildlife, and impactful for resilience. Many factors, including maintenance, costs, goals, community needs, and aesthetics, should determine the size of your planting. 

There are several different types of native prairies and prairie-themed plantings:

• Prairie Remnant - A native, old growth grassland that varies in size but typically with a high diversity of species and its original topography and water flow.

• Prairie Restoration - A native prairie that is being restored to a high quality by removing invasive species, reintroducing fire and/or grazers, conducting periodic mowing, and planting species to increase diversity.

• Prairie Reconstruction - A project that starts from bare soil. Reconstructions can come in many sizes from an acre up to hundreds of acres.

• Pocket Prairie - Typically, but not always, a more smaller prairie reconstruction and frequently, but not always, located in urban or suburban settings.

• Prairie Garden -  A garden which incorporates native prairie species.