Making Meadows: A Northwest Meadowscapes Zine

Our first publication, Making Meadows: Creating Wildflower Ecosystems West of the Cascade Mountains, is a guide to everything we wished we had known about creating and managing meadows and prairies when we first started out. It's a direct, and hopefully useful response to the dozens of questions we get from folks everyday about these beautiful ecosystems. An 80+ page (!!!) paperback zine, this guide is “crafted” in cut & paste, mostly black and white, xerographic collage-style. Visually, it’s maybe best compared to the kind of disheveled mess of scientific papers, scribbled building plans and farm implement catalogs that pile up on our work desks. Or, like an urban wall that has been painted over again and again, and had inch-thick layers of flyers stapled to it – a wall that eventually turns into its own secret record of time. The actual content includes: A brief overview of Pacific Northwest meadow and prairies natural history – the minimally basic stuff to know! The basic