Students collecting prairie soils they later used to create paint pigments during the "Thinking Like a Prairie" workshops. Photo courtesy of Josh Anderson.

“Thinking Like a Prairie,” a project funded by the Trust’s Small Grant Program, was highlighted in a recent story by the North Dakota News Cooperative. “Thinking Like a Prairie” features educational workshops focused on creative and artistic ways to engage with prairie soils and prairie plants combined with hands-on education about how soil health principles derive from the prairie ecosystem.The project includes participation from local ranchers for field visits, soil sampling and material collection, and from students who created projects integrating what they learned about prairies, soil health principles, and working lands approaches to grasslands management. 

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