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More home gardeners in Kansas City are deciding to fill their yards not with grass, but with native wildflowers, which are better for the environment. But that’s putting these homeowners in conflict with their neighbors, and Kansas City code.

Dennis Moriarty was thinking of the bees and butterflies when he replaced all the grass in his front yard with wildflowers.

Researchers at the Missouri Botanical Garden have been waiting almost three years for the Karomia gigas tree, a species that's dangerously near extinction, to flower and bloom.

In a few years, Kansas Citians will be able to wander 500 acres of tallgrass prairie close to home. A Johnson County park is in the midst of the area’s largest prairie restoration project.

Segment 1: "Kansas City wants to end homelessness," said Josh Henges.The Veterans Community Project gained national attention in 2018 by using tiny homes…

Segment 1: The cure to January might be going to a coffee shop inside of a greenhouse. We're starting off the first food show of the year at Cafe Equinox…

Rhododendron plants sold at more than 60 stores in Kansas are infected with a disease that kills oak trees, so the Kansas Department of Agriculture is…

Vast amounts of prairie speckled with wildflowers once covered Missouri. But today, little remains of what was once 15 million acres. The loss has been…

David Bird never gets bored with his plants. Orchids, he notes, are the largest family of blooming plants on Earth, with almost 30,000 species. He's been…

Segment 1: A dementia-friendly KC.What would it look like for a city to be "friendly" and accessible to people with dementia? We meet a sociologist…

Segment 1: Can news comsumers tell the difference between fact and opinion?Turn on any news channel and try to determine if you're hearing fact or…

For crop farmers, winter is the offseason. But that doesn’t mean they take the winter off. It’s meeting season — going to endless seminars or having...