A downtown parking lot in Lawrence is now a native prairie
Midco Prairie opened Oct. 22 with more than 125 native plant species, a stump boardwalk, and foraging workshops, on a lot that used to hold cars.
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Midco Prairie in downtown Lawrence opened on Oct. 22 on ground that had been a parking lot. It holds more than 125 native plant species, a boardwalk made of stumps, and workshops on foraging.
The lot no longer stores cars. It stores a planted prairie, with a path through it and classes about what is growing there.
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In Lawrence, Kansas, a downtown parking lot has been turned into a prairie called Midco Prairie. It opened on Oct. 22. More than 125 kinds of native plants grow there. Visitors can walk a boardwalk made of stumps and go to workshops about finding food in the plants. The ground used to be a place for cars. Now it is a place for grasses, flowers, and people on foot.
- What was on this land before the prairie?
- What can you do there besides look at the plants?
- Why do native plants matter to bees and butterflies?
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