In the fall of 2010 we were notified that the prairie
project would be razed for the expansion of parking that was required by the
city due to the remodeling of our school.
This blog took a hiatus as we fought to have the site saved, were shot
down, convinced the school board to replant, planned the new site, seeded it in
the summer of 2011, and have now been able to witness the reconstruction
efforts of the new planting.
The new site runs along Ashworth just south of the track and
between the track and baseball field. This
site was selected as no other school groups utilize that land, part of it is on
a slope, and it encompasses a retention basin for water draining off the
track. Funding for the seeds came from
the NEA’s Green Across America Grant, the Kimm Grant, Mid-American Energy, and
Iowa Network Services.
