Native Garden Tours
Our mowed prairie paths allow people of all ages to learn about prairies firsthand. Get to know the diverse populations of plants, animals, and insects — right on Happy Apple’s Farm! These 2-hour, guided events are offered to capture and share the best spring, summer, and fall features of the prairie garden. We’ll identify plants close to our paths where they can be easily shown to or touched by participants. Sharing sensory details of the diverse prairie plants with people of all ages increases understanding about prairie ecology and informs the care of native plants in garden settings. Check our Events page for upcoming dates.
Prairie Explorers
Funded by Grassland Heritage Foundation through the Sustaining Prairies Fund.
By allowing children to explore a prairie firsthand, we can offer a more intimate experience with nature that allows the children to observe the many aspects of the prairie ecosystem and observe the interactions of the life that is part of it. Each of the sessions of the Prairie Explorers youth program will cover a different aspect of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem, and will include a scavenger hunt and short activity/lesson.
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Botanical Field Trips to Stable M
Learn how to identify plants, explore different habitats, and see how many species you can find with the help of the iNaturalist app. Botanical Belonging has partnered with a nearby 73-acre property called Stable M to launch a year-long series of field trips aimed at teaching plant identification skills and fostering greater appreciation of a diversity of local habitats.
Volunteer Workdays
Workdays are unscripted in-person opportunities to join us in managing and propagating native plants at Happy Apple’s Farm in Tonganoxie, Kansas. Volunteers will work along with an educator to accomplish garden maintenance or native plant propagation tasks. Knowledge gained in this way is unique because in-person, hands-on experience engages tactile and visual learners in ways that discussion cannot. Participants can usually take home seedlings from the gardens or greenhouse as a result of their own work.
NEW! Volunteer workdays in Kansas City. Botanical Belonging maintains the native plant garden at the KC Farm School at Gibbs Road (Kansas City, Kansas). The KC Farm School native garden is built atop a berm and swale system to capture water and minimize erosion in an urban/peri-urban area. The garden is a mix of mostly forbs and grasses, with some shrubs, combined in an arrangement with a wild feel. Find upcoming dates, more information, and register here.
Eudora Giving Garden
We’re breaking ground on a new native plant garden at the Eudora Giving Garden, and you’re invited! We’ll meet in Eudora for workdays over the course of the season, first planting and then maintaining this new native garden. In the fall, we’ll return for seed collection and to see what our efforts brought forth in the first year! We’ll have garden workdays on Sunday May 19, June 16, and September 8 from 2-4pm.
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