Crickets and grasshoppers sing among the native grasses and flowers on a 10-acre remnant prairie southwest of Eudora. The prairie – located on the Compass Prairie Art Farm – offers numerous seasonal blooms of native flowers, and its highly diverse landscape is hard to find.
“There’s like a different palette of color that seems to sprinkle itself through the prairie,” said Matt Dehaemers, owner of ...
More than 70 kitchen and medicinal herbs grow at Wild Ivy Herb Farm, which is carrying on a family tradition of growing natural medicines and creating herbal remedies.
“Herbs are so special,” said Lori Trojan, owner of Wild Ivy Herb Farm. “They are extraordinary plants with vastly powerful medicinal properties, and they deserve something really unique and special.”
Trojan said she was introduced to ...
Fall is the busiest season for Davenport Orchards and Winery, where over 8,000 pounds of grapes grown on the property must be harvested within 60 days before they can be transformed into wine.
“(We’re) trying to get the harvest out before we have bad weather, and it’s a lot of hard work,” said Greg Shipe, owner of Davenport Orchards and Winery.
Shipe said that estimating the annual bottle production ...
This year marks the 20th annual Kaw Valley Farm Tour, offering visitors a chance to explore local farms, wineries and vineyards in Douglas County.
Karen Pendleton, who helped kick off the Kaw Valley Farm Tour, said the original vision was to promote agritourism throughout the region and help get people involved in local agriculture.
“We haven’t really changed all that much, other than having more farms ...
Today, comedian Tiffany Jenkins has more than 9 million followers and over a billion video views on social media. But in a keynote speech on Thursday in Lawrence, she had some different numbers she wanted to talk about.
The 20 felony charges she faced while in the depths of opiate addiction. The 120 days she spent in a Florida jail. The nearly 12 years of her life that she's been clean.
And, way back in her ...
A program that helps frequent 911 callers connect to non-emergency services hasn't gathered much data yet, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been making a difference, county leaders heard on Wednesday.
At the Douglas County Commission's meeting on Wednesday, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical gave commissioners an update on the Mobile Integrated Health program, in which a two-person team reaches out to people ...
