Blue Jay Barrens

Twenty years ago, I decided that I needed a place where I could grow some of the interesting plants found at Blue Jay Barrens that would ...

The dead growth in the Prairie Garden is removed each spring.   I used to do an occasional spring burn, but abandoned that management te...

After visiting the barrens most likely to contain Draba species, I headed for the southern slopes of a neighboring ridge line to assess th...

My original plan was to post about the improved conditions on the prairies following the rains created by the remnants of Isaac that pa...

I headed out with the idea that I was going to walk through the winter mowed fields to check on their growth rates. Then I decided to look f...