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Live Theatre and the Life of A Community
Peaches, Meet Corn
Barns of the Midwest
Worthless Rocks
On the Changing Nature of the Obituary
What Do You Think Community Is?
Extraction, Roots, Energy, and The Plains
Little Prairie On The Freeway
Community, Commons, and Ecological Restoration at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Cheyenne Bottoms
The Heart of the Oblates’ North
The Peace Rock
“One Clover, and A Bee”: Improving Biodiversity through Community Engagement
*Silo*: Producing A Film in the Heartland
A Farmer for Two Weeks
A Shared Heritage: Preserving Genetic Diversity and Cultural Traditions through Seed Saving
A Spirited Land: Indigenous Tribes' Fight to Protect the Boundary Waters
A Summer's Day on the Prairie
A Taste of Utopia: A Brief Introduction to Fairfield, IA
Addiction
Albert Kahn’s Architecture Comes to Grinnell
Along the Way
Barn Quilts in Poweshiek County, Iowa
Breaking the Silence on the Farm Crisis
Chore Boots, Checkbooks and Chalkboards
Confronting Climate Change with Love: A Review of Cornelia Mutel’s (A Sugar Creek Chronicle)
Cultivating Musical Excellence in the Driftless Region
Dark Skies or Light in My Eyes: A Look at Light Pollution
Dear Diary, May 30, 2027
Establishing Native Prairie Plantings Without Using Herbicides
Exploring Minnesota Foodways Through Four Recipes
Food Deserts in the Midst of Plenty
From Bhutan to Omaha: Refugees Put Down New Roots
From Soil to Sustainability
Growing A House in Fairfield
Growing Kin: Voices from Mustard Seed Community Farm
How Should Iowa’s Agricultural Landscape Look?
Iowa Ivaluktaktok: A Video
Iowa's Lichens: Found and Lost
Iowa’s Bison: Wild Animals in a Domesticated Landscape
Is Renewable Energy Enough?
La Voz de la Comunidad: the Effect of the Discount Mall's Closure on the People of La Villita
Long Play: 33 1/3 Years in a Local History Museum
Looking for Community: Queer Scientists’ Search for Connection in the Midwest
Making Art with an \"Eloquent Invasive\"
Memory in a Mustard Grain: Three Indigenous Women
MICA and the Unique Challenge of Rural Poverty
Murder at A Midwest School
My Growth at Mustard Seed Community Farm
My Prairie
Nostalgia, the Nineteenth Century, and the House Next Door
Obedience and Resistance
Prairie Meanders
Prairie Potholes and Their Importance to Waterfowl
Prairie Style: Wright, the Griffins, Sullivan, and Their Influence on Iowa Architecture
Prairie Transformation
Puppy Mills in Iowa
Researching Corn in Iowa and Beyond
Saving the Monarch Means Saving the Prairie --- and Agriculture
Sod House, Green Roof
Such A Clean, Tidy Man
Swimming Upstream: Des Moines
Taking STEM Seriously in Iowa
The Cost of Opportunity: Big Pork Comes to Mason City
The Emptying of Rural Iowa
The Garbage Man
The Garwin Bowery
The Making of the Midwestern Prairie
The Medicine Rock of South Dakota
The Moon Shines on the Prairie
The National Water Dance Comes to the Prairie
The Politicians of Edison High School
The Propaganda of Postcards
The Sound of Touch: 'Branches' Is A Prairie Collaboration
The Stories We Live By: Writing Climate Change*
Thoreau’s Home on the Prairie
Tornadoes in Kansas
Tortoise Philosophy
Traditional Lakota Governance
Video Essay
Warped Cherubs and Tasmanian Devils: A Tattoo Artist in Fairfield
Water Management on the Missouri River
Where is Industrial Agriculture Taking Rural Iowa?
Why Drive to Central Nebraska During A Winter Weather Warning?
Wolves Under Threat: A Deep Dive into the Endangered Species Act
interview 34
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A Conversation About the Great Plains Trail
Roots Talk! Podcast Episode 5
Jumping Into the Void
Roots Talk! Podcast Episode 3
Roots Talk! Podcast Episode 4
'Sunflower, Sunflower'—A Neurodiverse Landscape
“We Lived There Ourselves for Forty-some Years” Lives Spent on the Iowa Prairie
A Syrian-American’s Experience in the Midwest
An Interview: David Ottenstein
Animal, Vegetable, Human: Glyphosate’s Effects in Ag and Beyond
Blossom Aloe Extends Roots Across Texas
Bracing Her Feet: Chris Gaunt and A Life of Activism
Changing with the Changing Times: Running a Modern Dairy on a 150-year-old Farm
Charlie Potter Talks about *Wings Over Water*
Farm to Fork Tales
Finding Home on the Prairie
Imagination Is an Endless Portal' --- Making Art in Casper, Wyoming
Interview with Congressman Neal Smith
Jana the Biking Beekeeper
Literature and Opportunity in the Midwest
Living on Quicksand
Mushrooms in the Midwest
New Lives in the Midwest
Rescuing A 'Threatened Landform'
Roots Talk! Episode #6
Roots Talk! Episode 1
Roots Talk! Episode 2
RootsTalk! Podcast #7: Sustainability in Iowa: An Interview with Charles Connerly
Sacrifice State
Seth Hanson’s “Not Too Deep”—Seeking the Sound of Rural Iowa
Telehealth on the Prairie
Texas's Changing Hill Country
Tight, Insulated, and Thermally Massive: Rethinking Residential Architecture in Columbia, Missouri
Tortilla Pooris* (and Other Kitchen Experiments)
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From My Table to Yours
His Ambassador
Roadtrip
A Place to Call Home
Pony Rides, Vice-Presidents and Weddings in the Rain
The Hottest Car in Town
Healing the Smallest Casualty
A Child's First Taste of Freedom
My Integrated Life, Part I
Finding the Lost Duck
Roots of Stone
This Old House
Growing Up in Kansas
A Woman and the Land
Belltower Triptych Part I: Ding Dong
Belltower Triptych Part II: Which Way the Wind Blows
Belltower Triptych Part III: Birthday Presents
Cardinal
Finding A Home: A Young Farmer's Journey
Finding the Midwest: A Journey in Six Parts
Fly Fishing in the Driftless Region
Freedom and Equality': Missouri's East Wind Community
Harvesting Wheat in the 1940s
Havensville
My Boyhood Days on a Farm (1943-1961)
My Integrated Life, Part II
My Integrated Life, Part III
Ode to Liberty #6
Prairie Home
The Tie That Binds
Up Hill Both Ways
Violence Against the Earth Is Violence Against Women
What I Learned at the White Horse Ranch
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Evening Falls on the Prairie
Two Poems
Two Poems
Two Poems
Making Room
Think of night as controlled prairie fire, and it becomes an imperative
Travel by Starlight
Ode to the Honey Bee
Gnosis
Two Poems
Open Door
A Girl's Song
Ekphrasis* on the Prairie
Fingerprints
Four-Legged People: Five Poems
In My Kansas Pasture
Minnesota is a Temperamental Artist
Poetry of Cultural and Spiritual Identity
Prairie Burn
Prayerful Prairies
Sanctuary
Three Poems
Three Poems
Two Poems
Two Poems
Two Poems
Two Poems
Two Poems
Two Poems
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Closeup: Keith Kozloff
A Glimpse into 'Little Mogadishu'
Getting Lost in Ohio
Land, Wind and Sky': A Sojourn on the Canadian Plains
Quad Cities #23
Rock Creek Lake, Winter and Summer
Sundogs
The Greater Prairie Chicken: Photos by Bruce Leventhal
The Indoor Prairie
The Streets of Dallas: A Look Into The Minds of Three Photographers
Three Photographs
Tilly Woodward Paintings
Untitled Photos: Justin Hayworth
Winter into Spring
With a Camera in Nature
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Closeup: Regan Golden
Closeup: Kristine Heykants
Closeup: Keith Kozloff
Closeup: Diana Scandridge
Closeup: Dubbeldee Kuhn
Closeup: Ken Saunders II
Closeup: Larry Stone
Closeup: Rachel Melis
Closeup: Robert Wolf
Closeup: Steven Herrnstadt
Closeup: Tony Crowley
Nature and Natural: A Potter on the Northern Plains
Prairie Science Meets Prairie Art
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8 Million Stories
Time For A Roadtrip
Associate Editor's Note
Associate Editors
Editor's Note
Editor's Note: After the Storm
Editor's Note: Racism in the Heartland
Editor's Note: The Butterfly Effect
Editorial Staff
Editorial Staff
Editors' Note
Editors’ Notes
Exploring the Prairie's Palette from Spring to Fall
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It Takes a Village to Build an Issue
Sight, Sound and ... Smell?
*Publisher’s Note:* The Stories We Tell
Publisher's Note
Publisher's Note
Publisher's Note: Bad, Badder, Baddest
Publisher's Note: Some New Books about the Tallgrass Prairie Region
Publisher's Note: The Pandemic on the Prairie
Publisher's Note: Why I Carve Spoons
Publisher’s Note
Publisher’s Note: What Makes A Hero? Remembering Bill Stowe (1959-2019)
The Community in the Garden
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Robert Wolf's "Building The Agricultural City: A Handbook for Rural Renewal"
Pieta Brown in Concert
“train”
*Grow Finish Unit* Takes on “Ruthless and Insatiable” Industrial Ag
Blossom Aloe Extends Roots Across Texas
Cindy Crosby and Thomas Dean's _Tallgrass Conversations_
Cure
Richard Luftig's _A Grammar for Snow_
Seth Hanson’s “Not Too Deep”—Seeking the Sound of Rural Iowa
The Pines in Concert