On Monday, January 28th, Katy High School students Stone Garza, Nandita Deo, Andie Gunn and Brooklyn Garibay spoke at City Hall before Mayor Chuck Brawner and city council members Durran Dowdle, Janet Corte, Chris Harris, Frank O. Carroll, III, and James C. Mendez Jr.  Students provided a status update and way-forward for the Tiger Prairie, while also calling the community to action; the Tiger Prairie Project would like to further engage the City of Katy by encouraging businesses and residents to incorporate native Texas plant species into local landscaping.  Students urged the City of Katy to consider revising city ordinance 2284 to include a mandatory 50% native Texas species in all new landscape plans submitted by landowners for building permits (residential or business).  Collectively, these 'pocket prairies'/native greenspaces can reduce the amount of water used for irrigation, while also increasing soil infiltration rates during flooding events.  Native plants then, are an ideal, eco-friendly solution, aligned with Katy's conservation efforts and flooding mitigation plan.

​Katy Prairie Conservancy (KPC) and the Houston Chapter of the Native Prairies Association of Texas (HNPAT) are teaming up to host a seed packing party at the January 23rd HNPAT monthly meeting. Learn about prairie plants and how to clean their seeds. Prairie plant seeds collected from the wild last year will be packed into envelopes to be distributed to KPC's Great Grow Out (KatyPrairie.org/GGO) participants and will be propagated at the KPC nursery in the coming year. 
Information about the Great Growout will be available at the meeting. Seed packers are encouraged to take some seeds home and participate!
Come & eat, make some new friends, support KPC and HNPAT, and clean and pack some seeds! Bring garden gloves and pruners/scissors, if you have them.

• 6:30 - 6:50 p.m. Pizza
• 6:50 - 7:10 p.m. Short introduction
• 7:10 - 8:30 p.m. Seed cleaning & packiing
• 8:30 - 8:45 p.m. Clean up

Cost: Free. Pizza will be provided by KPC. No experience necessary.
For additional information or email, please contact Lan Shen at Lshen@katyprairie.org. 
Lan Shen
The Katy Prairie Conservancy & Houston Chapter - Native Prairies Association of TX
713-523-6135 x 4014 or 713-714-6763

​On January 8th, project leaders Rhonda Burrough, Kelly Knight and Susan Barker spoke before the Keep Katy Beautiful (KKB) Board, updating KKB  on the progress of the prairie and seeking partnership on the project.  KKB generously voted and approved a motion to fund permanent sineage for the prairie; the KHS Prairie Project is excited to collaborate with KKB and engage other community members in the City of Katy.  Check out highlights from our talk under the documents section!
On January 8th, project leaders Rhonda Burrough, Kelly Knight and Susan Barker spoke before the Keep Katy Beautiful (KKB) Board, updating KKB  on the progress of the prairie and seeking partnership on the project.  KKB generously voted and approved a motion to fund permanent sinage for the prairie; the KHS Prairie Project is excited to collaborate with KKB and engage other community members in the City of Katy.  Check out highlights from our talk under the documents section!