PRAIRIEWORKS - Each Friday and selected Saturdays throughout the year
PrairieWorks volunteers assist in maintaining KPC’s Coastal Prairie Native Seed Nursery, combat invasive species, mulch trails, clear fences of vegetation, etc.
Where: KPC Indiangrass Preserve and other KPC Preserves
When: Fridays from 9 AM –12 PM & some Saturdays
Who: Individuals and groups.
Time Commitment: Weekly sessions of 1 to 3 hours. Volunteers can work as many or as few sessions as they choose.
Physical Requirements: Bending, kneeling, or sitting on the ground; some light lifting.
Experience/Knowledge: None required.
Training: Available during volunteer session.
What to wear: Closed-toed shoes, tall socks, long pants, long-sleeved shirt, hat.
What to bring: Gardening gloves. All other tools are provided.
Volunteer benefits: PrairieWorks volunteers are eligible for special prairie restoration classes and field trips.
GREAT GROW OUT 2010 - From your Patio to our Preserve!
Would you like to help restore a prairie at Warren Lake from the comfort of your own
home? In early 2010 KPC weʼll break ground on the two-story Matt Cook Wildlife Viewing
Platform at Warren Lake. We want our visitors to be immersed in an authentic prairie
experience and plan to restore a 20-foot tallgrass prairie buffer on either side of the trail
that leads to the platform. It will be quite a sight where lemon-hued coneflowers, brilliant
blue-green grasses rustle in the prairie wind while showy orange butterflies and
scampering sparrows complete a vibrant scene. You can play an keystone role in this
prairie restoration effort by volunteering to grow native wildflowers and grasses that will
be used at our newest attraction.
Don't have a green thumb? No problem. Weʼve written a new native plant growing handbook just for you (see below). If youʼd like to grow wildflowers and/or grasses for KPC weʼll be happy to provide you with the seed if you can donate soil, space, pots, water, and time. This project is also a good way to get scouts and other youth groups involved in hands-on conservation in their community. Just send your request for seeds to jgonzalez@katyprairie.org!
Just send us an e-mail requesting the seeds that you like to grow from the list below and weʼll ship them to you or you can drop by the KPC Home Office to pick up the seeds yourself. Each seed packet is sufficient to grow out one flat of 18, 4”X4” pots.
Seeds available for the following species:
- American Aloe (Manfreda virginica)
- American Basketflower (Centaurea americana)
- Beaked panicum (Panicum anceps)
- Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
- Clustered Bushmint (Hyptis alata)
- False Indigo (Baptisa sphaerocarpa)
- Florida Paspalum (Paspalum floridanum)
- Lance-leaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)
- Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
- Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnaris)
- Purpletop (Tridens flavus)
- Rough Coneflower (Rudbeckia grandiflora)
- Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
- White Prairie Clover (Dalea candida)
- Wild Rye (Elymus sp.)
- Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
- Yellow Indiangrass (Sorgastrum nutans)
To view a larger version of this handbook, first select fullscreen on this page. Once the full-screen page has
loaded, go to the lower left-hand corner of the screen for view
mode and select book.
Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook
