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Garden Capacity

tomato plants in raised beds

When it comes to growing your own food, exactly how much garden capacity do you need?

Tomato Plant Take-Over

If I tell you that the only vegetable garden space I have is right now totally used up by my tomato plants, which produce just a handful of tomatoes a day, you’ll see [...]

Prairie Dog Myth

Black-tailed Prairie Dog by Paul Carroll

The black-tailed prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, is a resident of western Kansas as well as parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.

This means you will not find black-tailed prairie dogs in eastern Kansas where I live. But that’s not the prairie dog myth I’m talking [...]

Here is a conversation I had yesterday with a very nice lady, who lives in New Jersey and whom I consider a friend, who has never been to Kansas. Obviously she has never seen photos of Kansas prairie flowers.

Alison: I didn’t bring my camera because I never end up taking photos. The only thing I’m [...]

Across the Prairie

“Starting on May 5, 1983, Vicky Foth and I walked for the next eighty days across Kansas and eastern Colorado, from the mouth of the Kansas River in Kansas City to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains south of Denver. We walked 690 miles, averaging about 10 miles a day, traveling parallel to the Santa [...]

Prairie Flowers

The Kansas prairie is so hot, but the prairie flowers are so beautiful. It’s worth braving the scorching sun to see them. I took this series of photos on June, 28th 2009. How many of them do you recognize?

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