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Community members gathered for music, meals, pumpkins and extra farm enjoyable Saturday on the first annual Kaw Valley Field Day.
Save Our Soil Kaw Valley Foundation hosted the household occasion at Shirk’s Barn, 1359 North 1900 Road in Lawrence.
The basis “is dedicated to protecting the rare and irreplaceable glacial and mineral soils of the Kaw River Valley — some of the most fertile and productive farmland in the world,” in accordance with data from occasion organizers.
“… By safeguarding the land, water, and rural traditions of the Kaw River Valley, we uphold the belief that agricultural use — not industrial development — is the highest and best use of this prime farmland.”
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Nathan Kramer (he/him), a multimedia scholar journalist for The Lawrence Times since August 2024, is a senior at Free State High School. He can be a information picture editor for Free State’s scholar publication, the place he works as a videographer, photographer and movement designer. See extra of his work for the Times right here.
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