Transportation of the Past, Out To Pasture

Prairie Grass

The 100+ plants that make up native prairie is the basis of life and can be the basis of much of the food we eat. Cattle, sheep, and bison are all herbivores. They never evolved to eat corn and high protein feeds. These feeds must be introduced slowly in feedlots because they make these animals ill, but they are fed corn because of rapid weight gain. Before agriculture settled on the Great Plains millions of bison grazed here, perhaps more animals than are now supported by modern agricultural crops. We now grow two dominant crops, corn and soybeans. Perhaps one third of these grains are fed to animals, the rest is used industrially to produce everything from plastic to high fructose corn syrup. These small areas of native prairie are rare, amazing places.

Huckleberry Daze by Jerry McKellar

Guardedly Optimistic by Kate Chistopher

Happy Independence Day

Look Closer by Nicholas Legeros

Shima, The Jack Rabbit to make you laugh

Dakota Moon by Christopher Powell

Transformers and Bin

Eagle and Vishnu Bunny

Girls Can Do Anything

State Theater and Serendipity

Black Louvers and Red Grill

Bacchus by Sherri Treeby

Split Rock Creek and Corn Farm

Buick Roadster

Colman Elevator Grain Bins

Yellow Ford V-8

Stogeez and Mr. Goodcents

Both of these are odd relationships to food. The first is a reference to cigar tobacco and the second to coins.

Widget and Old Iron