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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Publisher’s Note: The Pandemic on the Prairie 

by Jon Andelson

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Publisher’s Note 

by Jon Andelson

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
The Community in the Garden 

by Jon Andelson

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Farewell, Richard 

Jon Andelson

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EDITORS' NOTE
Editors’ Notes 

by Emma Thomasch and Madeline Warnick

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The Cost of Opportunity: Big Pork Comes to Mason City 

by John P. Lee

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SHORT STORY
Dead Gun 

by Sandy Moffett

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ESSAY
Peaches, Meet Corn 

by Mariah Manoylov

In this essay, a Georgia-based writer shares her introduction to the prairie's wild beauty.
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My Prairie 

by Betty Moffett

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ESSAY
Growing A House in Fairfield 

by John Freeberg

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MEMOIR
My Integrated Life, Part III 

by Dartanyan Brown

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Why Drive to Central Nebraska During A Winter Weather Warning? 

by Sandy Moffett

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Drawings 

by Tara Shukla

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Cardinal 

by Chris Wiewora

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ESSAY
The Garwin Bowery 

by Frank Heath

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Tortoise Philosophy 

by John C. Whittaker

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The Tools of Prairie Reconstruction 

by Rachel Snodgrass

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ESSAY
Live Theatre and the Life of A Community Restoring Toledo, Iowa’s Wieting Theatre Opera House

by Abigail Evans

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ESSAY
“One Clover, and A Bee”: Improving Biodiversity through Community Engagement 

by Amanda Gray

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ESSAY
My Growth at Mustard Seed Community Farm 

by Tristan Aschittino

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The Stories We Live By: Writing Climate Change* 

by Cornelia F. Mutel

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ESSAY
On the Changing Nature of the Obituary 

by Mary Kay Shanley

Want to know how prairie culture has changed? Consult the obituaries in your local paper.
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Establishing Native Prairie Plantings Without Using Herbicides 

by Harriet Behar

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A Shared Heritage: Preserving Genetic Diversity and Cultural Traditions through Seed Saving 

by Toby Cain

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Confronting Climate Change with Love: A Review of Cornelia Mutel’s (A Sugar Creek Chronicle) 

by Elizabeth J. Queathem

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Finding the Midwest: A Journey in Six Parts 

by Greg Brew

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ESSAY
Worthless Rocks 

by John C. Whittaker

On any given outing on the prairie, you might just turn over an artifact from the country's indigenous past. Or maybe not...
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Literature and Opportunity in the Midwest 

by Deborah Brandt, Daisy Morales

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Puppy Mills in Iowa 

by Mary LaHay

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Obedience and Resistance 

by John Lawrence Hanson

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INTERVIEW
‘Sunflower, Sunflower’—A Neurodiverse Landscape An Interview with Bryan Boyce and the Writers of Cow Tipping Press

by Bryan Boyce, Sang Yoon Byun

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ESSAY/CLOSEUP
Water Management on the Missouri River 

by Nina Kouchi

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From Soil to Sustainability 

by Frederick L. Kirschenmann

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Nostalgia, the Nineteenth Century, and the House Next Door 

by Will Fellows

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ESSAY
Saving the Monarch Means Saving the Prairie — and Agriculture 

by Laura J. Jackson

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ESSAY
Long Play: 33 1/3 Years in a Local History Museum 

by Lanny Haldy

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Chore Boots, Checkbooks and Chalkboards Women Alternative Farmers and the Fourth Paradigm of Agriculture

by Sophie Neems

Such A Clean, Tidy Man 

by J. Harley McIlrath

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ESSAY
My Integrated Life Part 1

by Dartanyan Brown

Musician, journalist, educator with a 40-year career in the arts--our contributor has folded together multiple extraordinary lives.
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ESSAY
Murder at A Midwest School 

by Jason Ross

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Ode to Liberty #6 

by Mary Richardson McBee

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Closeup: Ken Saunders II 

by Ken Saunders

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The Pines in Concert Above the Prairie

by Kelly Hansen Maher

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PERSONAL ESSAY
A Farmer for Two Weeks 

by Mary Rose Bernal

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The Making of the Midwestern Prairie Plant Migration and Climate Change

by Thomas Rosburg

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Thoreau’s Home on the Prairie 

by Paul Goodnature

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ESSAY
Addiction 

by Sandy Moffett

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My Integrated Life, Part II 

by Dartanyan Brown

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ESSAY
Havensville 

by Kay Henry

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ESSAY
Extraction, Roots, Energy, and The Plains 

by Sebastian Braun

This scholar of Native American culture meditates on the meaning of roots, and the challenge to them represented by energy extraction.