![]() ![]() But back in the mid-1980s, shortly after my parents bought the farmstead south of Marion, they seeded it in Kaw big bluestem ( Andropogon gerardii Vitman) and Osage Indiangrass ( Sorghustrum nutans L. The native grass was distinct from the “pasture,” which was planted in cool-season brome and lay on the other side of a long hedgerow. Then we’d hike out to the fenced-in five acres behind our house that we called the “native grass.” My father watched the weather forecast religiously, waiting for that rare Kansas day when the wind was out of the south and gusting between five and fifteen miles per hour. Of all the odd jobs my brother and I were conscripted into growing up - cutting tree sprouts, stacking hay bales, digging up adult-sized stalks of noxious pokeberry - there was one I never minded: pasture burning. The prairies are nothing but grass as the sea is nothing but water. What is love? One name for it is knowledge. ![]() ![]() The Flint Hills National Scenic Byway, Highway K-177, between Matfield Green and Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Most of all there is the last stand of tallgrass prairie in America. In the Flint Hills of Kansas there are cattle ranches and art galleries, old barns and modern architecture, ghost towns and growing cities. ![]()
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