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Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First

Light, creating proven, versatile, hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind.

First Light, go farther, stay longer.

And now, your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt

podcast. This week on the show, I'm joined by Kent Boucher and Nicholas Lerio of Hoxie Native Seeds and the

Prairie Farm podcast to discuss exactly why native prairie grasses and forbs and wildflowers are so beneficial

to whitetail deer and wildlife of all types and exactly how we can get more of that kind of

habitat on the ground. All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast brought to you by First Light.

Today in the show, we are talking prairie.

We are discussing why native prairie ecosystems are so powerful or wildlife of all types,

how they can specifically help you as a whitetail deer hunter and a whole lot more.

My guests today, as I mentioned at the top, are the driving forces behind hoxy native seeds,

and they're the co-hosts of the Prairie Farm podcast, Kent Boucher and Nicholas Lerio.

These guys are hands-on experts when it comes to native prairie habitat.

And given their experience running hoxied native seeds, it's a company that develops and sells,

native seed blends.

They have this very personal experience with prairie habitat, with putting this stuff on the ground.

But then they also have this very interesting kind of zoomed-out perspective

as hosts of the Prairie Farm podcast.

Because what they do on that show is they speak to all sorts of experts

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