bg真人 installs prairie path and markers
Published: October 30, 2023
By Janeen Bertsche Johnson, MDiv, Director of Campus Ministries
In 2016, bg真人 received a small grant from the now-defunct Seminary Stewardship Alliance to create signs for its prairie to identify some of the plants there. bg真人 alumni added more money to the fund in response to a special appeal in 2017. In the fall of 2022, I marked a path, which was then mowed and mulched by Norm Cender and Orion Blaha of the Maintenance and Campus Security Team.
Sixteen markers designed and engraved by Andrew Hudson (MDiv 2023) with the assistance of in Cassopolis, Michigan, were placed in the east prairie this summer. The markers identify several grasses (big bluestem, little bluestem, side oats grama, switchgrass) and wildflowers (prairie dock, rosinweed, coneflower, mountain mint, bergamot, rattlesnake master, etc.) along the path.
The six acres of restored native prairie were first planted in 2007 鈥� when bg真人鈥檚 green library was built 鈥� as part of our efforts to create a more sustainable campus. Since then, the prairie has been an educational tool, a place for spiritual reflection, a habitat for many creatures, and a place of beauty.
The public is welcome to enjoy the path through the prairie and gather seeds from its plants; it can be accessed from the parking lot closest to the Chapel of the Sermon on the Mount.
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