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Today's installment of Growing on the High Plains comes from a story I encountered in the Sunday paper. It features an ethnobotanist from the sunflower state and his study of the coneflower (also known as echinacea).

This is Leslie VonHolten traveling through the High Plains of Kansas, with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte.The books we have read so far for our rivers series have explored history and terrain, with the river serving as the path of travel. For Max McCoy’s Elevations, the travel was a deeper understanding of place and self. For Mark Twain, Huck Finn, and Jim, the river represented freedom—freedom from the past, both personal and as a nation desperately in need of moral change.But Francisco Cantu’s memoir, The Line Becomes a River, complicates the role of the river. This time it is the Rio Grande, the highly politicized demarcation between Mexico and the United States.

As we left the city of Mozart, we were tired and hungry. I had to use the restroom, but the line at the museum was long.

This week Luke talks about hunting with big bore airguns and gives some good insights into how to get started. With ammo in short supply more and more hunters have become interested in learning about hunting with airguns. Click and listen as Luke gives you the inside scoop.

It's always good to think ahead. And for me, November is bittersweet. While I have to say farewell to this year's plot, I also get to revel in my plans for next year's garden!

The older I get, the more aware I am that my sanity depends on my ability to keep things organized. I know that I must always put my purse back on a certain shelf in the office...

Join Luke this week as he recaps a recent deer hunt. Luke describes the highs and lows of hunting deer and discusses a hunt last week with his good friend Jeff Rice...

Joel has a habit of leaving items on the top of the car and driving off. Most of the time, it has been full cups of Dr. Pepper, but once we had to chase down a stack of mail that contained his paycheck, and another time Joel had to weave through Wichita traffic to retrieve some important registration numbers for the state track team he was coaching...

Today's episode might be a saving grace for any of you High Plains gardeners longing for a pop of Spring color on your chilly windowsill. If you try, you can force a hyacinth bulb in the winter months — offering a lovely reminder that Spring is always right around the corner.

Believe it or not, this week's installment of Growing on the High Plains continues to keep an eye to next year's vegetable bed with a crack at the mighty garlic plant.