Our feeling was that if you are not connected to your place, you won’t take care of it. From this conversation emerged the idea of embracing our location and using it as a teaching and learning tool.
On Earth Day 2025, the Center for Prairie Studies sponsored an event at Arbor Lake for Grinnellians who wanted to learn about what’s in Iowa’s rivers and streams.
Vivero Digital Fellow Mikey O’Connor ’24 has harnessed his passion for web development to advance the digital presence of Rootstalk, a journal that captures and explores the essence of the Midwestern landscape.
Land stewardship apprentices Athena Frasca ’23, Jacy Highbarger ’22, and Max Sorenson ’22 develop a land ethic through farming in the College Garden and managing campus prairies.
Center for Prairie Studies is commissioning student artistic projects inspired by and created in conversation with the prairie region and our locality. Proposals are due by Feb. 14, 2020.
Across the street from campus at the corner of Park Street and 6th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, sits a 30–by-80-foot plot that’s been tilled and cared for. In the milder months, you’ll see it filled with crops like peppers and radishes, and you’ll see Grinnellians working there.
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