EPISODE · May 5, 2026 · 28 MIN
May 5th, 2026
from Natural Wonders · host WDRT
Two great stories, the first by Kenny Salwey, The Gray Shadow; we spend a year with a gray fox vixen; a beautiful written portrait, published Big River Magazine, November December 2016. www.bigrivermagazine.com Then, the many trials, errors and successes of a man who bought a rundown farm in the 1950's and discovered many beautiful butterfly weeds with their bright orange blooms, seen brightly a quarter mile away. He became devoted to finding out how to get more of these plants, how to get the seeds to germinate? He tackled spiderwort and lead plant propagation,,this before the internet--imagine that! This was the beginning of Prairie Nursery in Westfield. I'm reading the fascinating introduction from The Prairie Garden 70 Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country, published in 1980 by University of Wisconsin Press. Also mentioned; The Prairie in Seed, Identifying Seed-bearing Prairie Plants in the Upper Midwest, by Dave Williams, published by University of Iowa Press, 2016
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Two great stories, the first by Kenny Salwey, The Gray Shadow; we spend a year with a gray fox vixen; a beautiful written portrait, published Big River Magazine, November December 2016. www.bigrivermagazine.com Then, the many trials, errors and successes of a man who bought a rundown farm in the 1950's and discovered many beautiful butterfly weeds with their bright orange blooms, seen brightly a quarter mile away. He became devoted to finding out how to get more of these plants, how to get the seeds to germinate? He tackled spiderwort and lead plant propagation,,this before the internet--imagine that! This was the beginning of Prairie Nursery in Westfield. I'm reading the fascinating introduction from The Prairie Garden 70 Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country, published in 1980 by University of Wisconsin Press. Also mentioned; The Prairie in Seed, Identifying Seed-bearing Prairie Plants in the Upper Midwest, by Dave Williams, published by University of Iowa Press, 2016
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