Anne Trumble
Created the "Migration Station" by Papillionites
Studying and practicing landscape architecture
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About Anne Trumble
Anne Trumble, MLA, ASLA, spent each summer as a teenager hoeing milkweed out of her family's soybean fields on the Great Plains. Even though her high school mascot was the Monarch, for which her hometown Papillion (French for "butterfly"), Nebraska, was named, it wasn't until studying and practicing landscape architecture that she connected the dots between her family's agricultural practices and the disappearance of butterflies across the country.
In 2016, Anne convinced her family to convert 13 acres of cropland to pollinator habitat, with a focus on providing host and nectar plants for Monarchs. Today, the 13 acres of prairie-in-restoration are referred to as "Migration Station" by Papillionites who are noticing many pollinators around town for the first time.
Ms. Trumble has come to share the challenges and delights of reclaiming intensively cultivated land for native plants and their pollinators, nurturing diverse habitat alongside conventional farming and rapid suburbanization, and bringing a community on a journey to confront and reclaim our shared heritage and responsibilities. The practical lessons she has gleaned in this re-wilding process are priceless, for anyone seeking to to undertake similar projects, large and small.