Pat Jones Visits
Pat Jones with Jamie Coe standing on The Savanna This afternoon Jamie Coe brought Pat Jones out for a tour of the PGT. We were lucky that the rain held … Continued
Susan Mattison visits the PGT
Left to Right: Lorna Domke, Susan Mattison, Henry Domke Landscape Architect Susan Mattision visited the PGT today. She is a friend and former High school classmate. Here she is standing … Continued
The Big Melt
The water is running rapidly, the fields are turning to mush and the cardinals are singing at dawn. After being trapped by 16 or so inches of snow on top … Continued
Quick Landscaping the Tree Shear Way
Several years ago I heard a story on NPR about videos for young kids showing earth-moving equipment. It was the current spin on a story Captain Kangaroo read in the … Continued
So not Las Vegas
In the light of a late autumn day, stillness is broken only by the occasional nuthatch, woodpecker or squirrel as I walk along the creek. This is the antithesis of … Continued
Prescription for Health: Burning Woods and Prairie
The weather was perfect, so Matt Barnes gathered a crew to carefully burn our prairies and woods on Wednesday and Friday this week. The weather has been so wet this … Continued
New View from the Trees
After a long weekend of work, the treehouse crew removed the old, dead tree and built a new viewing platform overlooking the lotus pond. They were disappointed to see their … Continued
PGT Treehouse Comes Tumbling Down
A few years ago, a group of friends started building a treehouse overlooking our lotus ponds. Last year, the big old red oak that held a key part of it … Continued
Building a Strong Foundation for a Nature Garden
We had great news last week that the Prairie Garden Trust (Prairie Gardens Charitable Foundation), was approved as a 501 (c)3, tax-exempt organization. The Board is composed of myself (Lorna … Continued
Henry Domke up in the air
A helicopter picked Henry up at the PGT today and flew him around for about an hour so he could take aerial photos of our paths, ponds, fields and forests. … Continued