Posts by Katy Heggen

Photo by Ryan Ellsworth Each spring and fall, the Iowa landscape signals a change of season. Leaves turn and buds...

Chris Henning, a landowner from Cooper, IA, is just one of many women who has worked with Practical Farmers, an...

Descendants of the Ferguson family are well acquainted with their family trees — all 600 acres of them. Trying to...

Several years ago, Dennis Haller assigned himself the unpleasant task of pulling wild parsnip, a particularly cantankerous plant. “I had...

Before "Iowa" and "mining" are not words commonly associated with one another, at least not anymore. But in some parts...

In a part of the state where wide open spaces are becoming increasingly scarce, at 117 acres, Rob and Susan...

Photo courtesy of Effigy Mounds National Monument In 2013, the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) was preparing to expand US...

Sometimes, the best things are found in unexpected places. This is certainly true of Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt, a 9,000+ acre...

“If you build it, they will come." This familiar “Field of Dreams” reference tends to elicit eye-rolls from long-time Iowans...

When John and Susan Aschenbrenner purchased 212 acres just outside Osceola in Clarke County, they had dreams of creating a...

Climbing up Solitaire Ridge, one is struck by the sheer scale of it. Rising above the River Bluffs Scenic Byway,...

Another summer of hard work, relationship building and personal growth has come and gone for the INHF land stewardship interns....