Valley Nature Foods Interpretive Gardens

The Valley Natural Foods Interpretive Gardens provide a platform for discussing the stewardship of our soil quality and methods for increasing our pollinator population. The space is designed around two interpretive gardens that highlight the multivariate benefits of Minnesota’s native prairie species on agricultural productivity. Educational signage provides analysis of land-use changes, a mapping of productivity shifts, species profiles, and calls to attention the symbiotic relationship between pollinators and plants. Utilizing a limited budget, the Landscape Architect designed and constructed the landscape with a simple and cohesive palette of materials: cedar (renewable), stone (local), HDPE (re-cycled), and boulders (re-purposed).