Archive for May, 2006
Local, Slow Food Calgary
Growing native prairie grasses may help push them off endangered species list
By Erica Simmonds
The grass grew four feet tall in Ann Gerry’s garden, but that’s just the way she likes it. Three years ago, Gerry pulled out most of her Kentucky bluegrass (what most lawns consist of) and planted native prairie grasses and flowers in its place. “It looked beautiful,” says Gerry, a terrestrial ecologist with Saskatchewan Environment and board member of the Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan, who lives in Lumsden, just outside of Regina. “But I’m sure some of my neighbours were puzzled.”
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