After 15 years on public television, with over 300 television episodes to its credit, the Prairie Yard and Garden program is growing. The popular horticulture television series will begin its 16th season on January 9, 2003, with new audiences across at least two states.
Executive Producer Roger Boleman announced that the series will be broadcast on Minnesota's public television stations as well as on North Dakota Public television. In addition, the series is being made available to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) for distribution to their affiliates. Already public television stations in South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin and as far away as California and Oklahoma have also shown an interest in televising the series.
Prairie Yard and Garden is produced by the Media Services Department on the historic campus of the University of Minnesota, Morris, and is a cooperative effort between UMM and Pioneer Public Television, KWCM, Appleton. Boleman says Prairie Yard and Garden is probably the most widely-distributed program produced by the University of Minnesota.
A new audience means some program changes: the program will no longer be broadcast live from the studios at UMM. Instead, all 13 episodes will be produced on location or in the studio, and distributed to PBS stations. Prairie Yard and Garden crews have traveled to various parts of the state to visit with Minnesota horticulture experts and to capture the beauty of their gardens on tape. Prairie Yard and Garden utilizes horticultural experts from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Minnesota Extension Service, Master Gardeners, and home gardening enthusiasts. Some of the program topics include backyard diseases, hardy shrub roses, using hedges in the landscape, propagating woody plants, water gardens, house plants, and renovating an overgrown landscape. Peter Olin, director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, has this to say about the series: "Prairie Yard and Garden is undoubtedly the best program for the Upper Midwest that I have seen. The content is relevant for home gardeners with science-based information delivered in a straightforward and meaningful way."
The new season will begin at 7:30 p.m. January 9 on Pioneer Public Television in Appleton. Other public broadcast stations will begin broadcasting the series over the next few months.
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