Press Releases

Country Life Center attracts more than 9,000 visitors annually and adds to Iowa’s tourism economy.

Kids can learn how to cook at Wallace House in June.

Travel Iowa has included the Gathering Table restaurant on its list of 99 restaurants to try in Iowa.

Annual garden workshop presents a wide variety of topics from local and regional speakers.

WCI receives $10,000 from Iowa History Fund to study Visitor Interpretive Center.

CSA is alternative when farmers markets close.

Chef Katie Porter offers “Slow Cooked Meats” and “Vegetarian Entrees” at the Country Life Center.

“Slow Cooked Meats”, “Vegetarian Entrees” and Cooking with Kids offered this fall at the Wallace House.

Pioneer of “prairie school” of landscape architecture celebrated with exhibit, dinner and prairie walk

More than 75 quilts on loan from area quilters and quilt owners on display indoors and out.

Musician Jason Reed and friends headline an evening of music, food.

Offered the first Thursday night of each month beginning May 5.

Senator Joni Ernst toured the Country Life Center March 23

Series of four lunches at the Wallace House encourages civility and women leaders

Annual garden workshop at the Country Life Center is Saturday, April 2.

Spring cooking classes at the Country Life Center announced.

Another season of farm-to-table dining at the Wallace House begins in March.

The 2015 Iowa tourism ads include a scene filmed at the Country Life Center.