THE GOAL
The Native Plant Society of Texas was planting pocket prairies at six Texas schools through its Pocket Prairies in Schools program. The prairies would go in the ground, but nothing told a kid standing in front of one what they were looking at, or why a patch of unmowed grass mattered.
WHAT WE MADE
A custom Pocket Prairie Nature Journal, printed on responsibly-sourced paper and distributed across all six participating schools, alongside a companion set of interpretive prairie signs installed at each site.
THE DESIGN STORY
Most nature journals ask kids to observe a landscape someone else built. This one belongs to kids who built it themselves. We wrote it as a companion to the planting — the prairie starts as bare dirt and the journal walks alongside it, so the first pages ask what will happen here and the later ones ask what did. A patch of dirt stops reading as a failed garden and starts reading as a project in progress.
THE PROOF
“It is an incredible workbook. The schools are going to be thrilled to have this!”
— Haeley Giambalvo, Native Plant Society of Texas
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