Winter Seed Cleaning Was Completed in December at Dunn Ranch Prairie

By Barb VanVleck Prairie heroes at work! In mid-December, Gail Goeke, Mel Haney, and Janie Borchart had a very dusty yet satisfying day sorting and cleaning the seeds from pods and removing stems to process the valuable seeds we collected at Dunn Ranch this summer.  One mishap turned out alright.  Janie’s cellphone slipped unnoticed into a deep bucket of fluffy liatris. When she dumped it into the hammermill, she noticed an odd sound.  The cell phone was pulverized into thousands of pieces.  She remained in good spirits as she was going to get a phone replacement the next week anyway, and everything had recently been automatically backed up to “the cloud”.  A catastrophe turned out fine.