Center for Prairie Studies

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.

Food Hubs: Where Community Food Security and Local Food Production Meet Thursday, May 4, 2023, 4:15 p.m. Burling First Floor Lounge

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.

Join producer Sam Goldberg and local farm safety experts for a free screening of Silo at Hotel Grinnell Auditorium, 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, 2020.

As lunch time hits, Grinnellians from all over campus flock to the dining hall to feast and fuel up for the rigor that is sure to come in their afternoon classes. As students and faculty peruse…

What can the College and the community do to create a more robust local food system? Participants in Grinnell’s local foods movement and alumni who work in the areas of sustainability and food systems will address this question in a symposium sponsored by the Center for Prairie Studies.

Dartanyan “Dart” Brown, one of the most celebrated musicians in Iowa history, will present a free concert of jazz, electronic/experimental and American roots music.

Ed Fallon, climate activist and former state legislator from northeast Des Moines, will address the urgent need for action on climate disruption on Monday, March 4, 2019.