In this episode, Nina Prater, an agriculture specialist in NCAT's Southeast Regional Office in Fayetteville, Arkansas, talks with Jay Randolph about prairie restoration. Jay is the Ben Geren Golf Course Superintendent and Sebastian County Park Administrator in Fort Smith, Arkansas. They discuss the prairie restoration work Jay has undertaken at the golf course since 2016. The conversation covers all the improvements Jay has seen at the park since starting this work, and the benefits any landowner can enjoy from re-establishing diverse prairie ecosystems.

For more information on this topic, contact Nina Prater via email at [email protected]

ATTRA Resources:
Converting Cropland to Perennial Grassland
Managing Soils for Water: How Five Principles of Soil Health Support Water Infiltration and Storage
Switchgrass as a Bioenergy Crop
Voices from the Field: Allen Williams and Adaptive Stewardship Management Grazing

Other Resources:
Thomas Nutall: A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the Year 1819
The Prairie Ecologist
National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative
Missouri Prairie Foundation
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Acres for Wildlife Program
Arkansas Monarch Conservation Partnership
Ben Geren Park

Please call ATTRA with any and all of your sustainable agriculture questions at 1-800-346-9140 or e-mail us at [email protected]. Our two dozen specialists can help you with a vast array of topics, everything from farm planning to pest management, from produce to livestock, and soils to aquaculture.

You can get in touch with NCAT/ATTRA specialists and find our other extensive, and free, sustainable-agriculture publications, webinars, videos, and other resources at NCAT/ATTRA's website.

You also can stay in touch with NCAT at its Facebook page.

Keep up with NCAT/ATTRA's SIFT farm at its website.

Also check out NCAT's Regional Offices' websites and Facebook Pages!

Southwest Regional Office: Website / Facebook

Western Regional Office: Website / Facebook

Rocky Mountain West Regional Office: Facebook

Gulf States Regional Office: Website /