Where wildflowers bloom, the honey tastes better, the pheasants cackle, and the farmer’s soil holds its own against erosion! That’s the experience of Iowa farmer Eric Hoien, as he described to BioScience in 2023. Integrating prairie strips—patches of native prairie plants woven between his rows of crops—has brought beauty, biodiversity, and a surprising boost to a neighbor’s honey harvest.¹ But for Hoien, a primary motivation was water quality.^{2 3}