By Mary Fund Amid all the pointing fingers and outrageous claims and lies surrounding the Kavanaugh Supreme Court appointment and the uptick in shrillness in campaign rhetoric recently, you may have missed the biggest story of the century. On October…
By Mary Fund On October 1, the 2014 federal Farm Bill expired with more of a whimper than a bang. It is not that the expiration is inconsequential, but rather that it was drowned out by the attention given to…
By Mary Fund Over a year has passed since the Kansas Legislature—led largely by a bi-partisan group of women legislators working across the aisle in true collaborative fashion—reversed the Brownback tax cuts of 2012. Some politicians are banking on the…
“This is who is making the decisions in our elections.” stated Christi Graber, League of Women Voters of Kansas Garden City Chapter. With only four people standing in the room while the remaining attendees stayed seated, representing those who voted…
By Charity Horinek Water gardens have been a part of public and private gardens since ancient Persia and China, but Southwest Kansas is not an area that has typically been well-known for water features. Prairie Wind Aquatics in Garden City…
By Charity Horinek We often hear how Kansas farmers feed the world, but for Ellen Mohler, that cliché wasn’t enough. “They always say, ‘We feed the world, we feed 155 people,’ but we aren’t even feeding our neighbors. We don’t…
By Charity Horinek Visit a Mexican restaurant in Southwest Kansas, and you will most likely eat tortilla chips that were grown and produced nearby, thanks to the Winfrey family of Plains. Since 2001, Leon and Nancy Winfrey and son Dustin…
The Kansas Rural Center has received a second year of support from the Ceres Trust for KRC’s Pollinator Protection Project. The $20,000 grant will help KRC to provide information and education on the harmful impacts of pesticides and chemical drift…
KRC is pleased to announce a second year of support from the Nell Newman Foundation. These funds will help support research in Southwest Kansas examining food system and social/cultural challenges the immigrant and migrant population encounter. Thank you to those…
