Listening to Prairie: Conspiring with Plants

By jeremy |
by Megan Kaminski What does it mean to escape wide-spread agricultural cultivation? What does it mean to see plants as collaborators and to give agency to non-human beings? This project is grounded in listening to plants, looking to them, and thinking about their call to place. Collaborating with the non-human… Read More

Postcards from the Pony Express (“We live here”)

By jeremy |
While this is not based on a single adventure, it is an audio visual accounting of the adventure of living in Jefferson County Kansas. The music I’ve composed is called “We live here” and it uses sounds from my land at Harmony Farm. The rich tapestry of birds, animals, insects,… Read More

Not So Fast!

By jeremy |
“Look, there’s a bullfrog underneath the van,” my husband announced after assisting his father into his wheel-chair accessible van. I looked a little closer and noticed a tail extending from this “bullfrog.” “I don’t think that’s a frog. I think it’s a baby snapping turtle!” I challenged. “It kinda stinks,”… Read More

Lesson Plans: Starting at the back of unbound gravel 200

By Kathryn Clarke |
Photos by Linda Guerrette, Jason Ebberts, Tim Mohn, and Dan Hughes. Words by Dan Hughes. Punk quotes by Charles Hughes. 🙂 When Kristi Mohn, marketing manager for Lifetime Fitness’ alt-surface events, called and asked if I wanted to start last at Unbound Gravel as a charity drive for the Outride… Read More

Adios Suffering.

By Kathryn Clarke |
Dirty Kanza Extra Large 2019 Photos: Eric Wynn, Paulina Batiz, Jason Ebberts, IM Design, and Nick Legan. Words: Dan Hughes As a bike shop owner and journeyman endurance bike rider, I’ve often wondered if we in the bike industry effectively market the joys of riding your bike over great… Read More

Buck Creek Beautification

By jeremy |
Buck Creek Road. Miles of gravel road beauty in Jefferson County, Kansas.  Area cyclists who enjoy riding on gravel know it well.  My co-worker who learned I lived on Buck Creek knew it well enough to know we lived on the curve in the road.  The surgeon who pinned my son’s… Read More

Hooray for Mary

By jeremy |
Orienteering. A sport of navigation using a map to locate controls on a determined course. After attending the 38N Adventure Fest last fall, I received an email with upcoming KS adventures, one of them being a free orienteering for women class. I decided that I would take up orienteering as… Read More

Kaw River Canoe Workshop

By jeremy |
A Social Practice Art project developed by Tom Huang, Associate Professor of Design – KU in conjunction with the Lawrence Art Center that encourages community and awareness of the environmental issues surrounding the Kaw River and shared water resources. Through the act of making, students ranging in age from 8-80… Read More

A Century of Memories

By jeremy |
2019 LMBC Bikepacking Adventures It’s a little before 7:00 am on Sunday morning and a thunderstorm is raging. Rain is pummeling our hammock and tent flys as we try not to think too hard about riding almost 50 miles home in a downpour. Of course, to say it has been… Read More

The Hunt

By jeremy |
My brothers and I were hastily woken up early in the morning. We swiftly dressed and ate a quick breakfast of doughnuts. The dogs leaped into the back of the truck, and Dad locked them in the kennels. Then we all bustled up into the truck, and we were on… Read More