The Power of People, Pollinators and Prairies
Intentional partnership building across sectors to advance shared goals for resilient landscapes can generate wide-ranging benefits for both people and nature. Working lands have enormous potential—not only to grow healthy food—but also to enhance ecosystem function, provide vital habitat and refuge for pollinators and birds, strengthen communities, and boost profitability. Similarly, urban landscapes—spanning parks, schoolyards, rights-of-way, vacant lots, and more—are rich with opportunities to support biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human wellbeing.
Urban nature plays a crucial role across these varied land use scales, demonstrating that even densely populated areas can contribute meaningfully to ecological resilience. Abigail will share how her work—engaging a diverse cross-section of organizations and communities to create prairie grassland habitat in urban areas—offers a model that can be adapted across different landscapes. Her approach illustrates how collective action rooted in inclusive partnerships can transform not just land, but also the lives and communities that depend on it.