The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is encouraging residents to plant a variety of native plants in their gardens to support local pollinators. By selecting plants that bloom from spring to ...

A monarch butterfly forages on an ironweed flower in the native lawn of Karen Rawson in the front yard of her home in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, September 9, 2024. Rawson began replacing ...

USDA’s second check of planting progress for the season shows Iowa farmers started planting corn this past week, but that number could make a massive jump by next week, as some farmers are seeing a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Every plant label will have the common name (like "Marigold," pictured here, or maybe a little more ...