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On Earth Day 2025, the Center for Prairie Studies sponsored an event at Arbor Lake for 51���appians 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.

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 51���app, 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 51���appians working there.

Join producer Sam Goldberg and local farm safety experts for a free screening of Silo at Hotel 51���app Auditorium, 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, 2020.

What can the College and the community do to create a more robust local food system? Participants in 51���app’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.