SATURDAY | AUGUST 9, 2025 | 10 am - 12 pm
Bria Abeles-Allison and Kendra Rysan's Indigo House Prairie in South Minneapolis
3615 34th Ave S, Minneapolis
Wild Ones Twin Cities invites you to join us for a tour of Bria and Kendra's Indigo House Prairie gardens in south Minneapolis. These gardens have gone through a tremendous transition over the last four years. Join to hear about the process taken, mistakes made, and discussion on future management decisions.
In May 2021 the backyard was a conventional grass yard, by Summer 2022 it had transformed to a lush non-native garden, and by Summer 2023 was once again in transition to a fully native garden with the addition of a new alley pocket prairie planted with Lawns to Legumes funding.
In Spring and Summer 2024 the rest of the backyard was densely planted with 150+ species of self-winter-sown MN natives and seeded with additional grasses in January 2025. The shady front yard remained all hostas and creeping bellflower until they were removed Fall 2024 in preparation for 2025 planting. Recently Bria finished their design and installation of a native plant boulevard garden as Kendra continues to transition shady areas into a woodland garden.
The back yard is now a well-loved 1-3 year old native prairie. The focus of this prairie has been on creation of habitat diversity, early on satisfying Bria's urge to have as many plant species as possible, and now being reined in with native plant communities in mind. Tour guests will see dead-hedge type pathway edging, creative gutter routing, early establishment phase green mulch and rock paths, and a lot of passion.
Bria and Kendra are looking forward to sharing their whimsical gardens with you all.
Accessibility: Street parking, moderately narrow paths with some uneven footing, limited seating available. Please let us know if there are accommodations we can make to enable you to attend!
to VOLUNTEER at the
Minneapolis Monarch Festival!
Saturday, September 6, 2025 | 10 am-4 pm
We need volunteers at the Minneapolis Monarch Festival (Festival de la Monarca) to help visitors learn more about Nokomis Naturescape and Wild Ones, and their message of growing native plant habitat. Please join us!
The Nokomis Naturescape is located on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis at 50th St. and Nokomis Parkway. It is a 4-acre landscape planted only with Minnesota native plant species and is an official Monarch Waystation, National Wildlife Federation Backyard Habitat, and the original site for this festival.
The Wild Ones is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to educating about preserving and restoring biodiversity of our native plant communities, beginning in our own yards and gardens. Since 2002, Wild Ones Twin Cities has helped the area's residents maintain the Nokomis Naturescape demonstration gardens and led in native plant educational outreach..
Questions? Email Vicki Bonk at vbonk@uswireless.com
See you at the Habitat Tent!
