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Lots. I forage and gather wild foods in my area.

Here is a book by Dr. Kelly Kindscher of KU, who is an expert in ethnobotany.

Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide

And if you do not know how to key or classify plants, I'd start with Botany In A Day by a guy I know.

I've lived here my whole life and one thing my dad and I like to do when we have time to spend an entire afternoon exploring is to go Geocaching. It's a good way to go on little adventures that lead you to new places.

"Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location." http://www.geocaching.com/

There's a geocache at the Veteran's Memorial by the Rec Center, and last I knew there was a cache in the Oval, but you generally don't want to find stuff like that when the area is heavily populated because you don't want someone to just steal the Cache. They're all over town- some of them are in cemeteries, some are in parks, but they're never in a place where you'll get in trouble for trespassing.

Some locations the container has little trinkets in them (you're supposed to leave a new trinket if you take one) and some of them are "micro" caches that just have a logbook in them where you put your username and the date you found the cache.

Calling your position amoral means that I thought it was morally adrift. Unconnected from a moral argument in favor of what you thought was economically possible. That doesn't necessarily mean I think you're a jerk.

Immoral would. If you insist.

I do appreciate the sheer confidence it takes to assume that you were right and ubiquitous auto-correct was wrong, though.

I run these lights.

They’re not top of the line, but they’re relatively inexpensive, LED, lightweight, and you can plug them into each other. When the seedlings are just starting out, you need to keep the lights really close (like 2-4”), or the baby plants will stretch too hard and weaken themselves.

I started my tomatoes March 6, which was probably a little too early in retrospect. Peppers need the most time, whereas I just planted my cucumber and squash seeds in early April (they come out fast).

Well, even that's not quite true because all of those species do just fine out west. You're still saying the "majority" of the state doesn't support trees, but it's just not true... there's pretty much nowhere in Kansas that won't support some select species of native trees except the western edge of the state way up in the high plains. Even there you'll still find shrubs and cottonwood stands near water sources.

Go look up the water requirements for these species, don't take my word for it. You might also be interested in this book. It has range maps for all the plant species with perennial stems found in Kansas.

I found this book to have some a lot of interesting insights into pioneer humor -- Tough Daisies: Kansas Humor from "the Lane County Bachelor" to Bob Dole.

Pretty much all of it is 20 to 150 years dated by now, but it gives a lot of color into the history of the state -- and there are a lot of very weird stories and quirky phrases in there.

I also highly recommend the excellent "The Kansas Guidebook" by Marci Penner. She has written it specifically for explorers and is organized by area (NW, SW, NC, SC, NE, SE) and then by county with suggestions for absolutely everything.The Kansas Guidebook

Yahoo story.

American Blog story from /r/politics earlier today.

I wanna say no....but we only got 2 miles in from the east entrance before heading back. You probably have a better idea than me though. Here’s a link you might check out - people give pretty thorough reviews on this site

There was a story on All Things Considered earlier this year. It sums up my impressions of the area fairly well.

https://www.npr.org/2017/01/26/511851731/despite-economic-troubles-residents-of-kansas-town-remain-proud

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Johnson, Wyandotte, Sedgwick.

The proper description would be a "reactionary Islamist" threat.
Reference resources are a wonderful thing.

You can't just reject data, because it counters your assertion. Even going by prehistory vs. history, that's still about 5000-ish years worth of data, and the vast majority of humans still lived in rural settings up until about 2007 when humans started living in an urban setting on a global scale.

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/I/m/Historical_global_urban_-_rural_population_trends.png

"Civilized history" only refers to the development of cities and city-states. That's about 6000 years worth of data, which is even longer than the "history vs. prehistory" timeline.

Neither urban or rural living systems are an aberration. It's simply just a state of domestic environments. You're presuming that one is inherently better than the other when it's simply a neutral way of life. There are positives and negatives for both.

I recommend a good Nike face mask(https://www.amazon.com/NIKE-Combat-Hyperwarm-Hydropull-Black/dp/B007QXSE7A/) with a stocking cap on it (while you're wearing it) and a good thick winter coat. 2 layers of pants are also good for snow shoveling in negative temps. Also do not drive if you do not have to during snow or ice conditions. Do not drive on ice. We don't need accidents.

Hills don't keep tornadoes from forming. Also, don't rely on sirens to be your only way of being alerted to a tornado. Get a weather radio - once you get it set up it will go off for tornado warnings, thunderstorm warnings, watches, etc. This is similar to what I have at home:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00176T9OY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_1wwnFbR1Y3WJC

You can actually do it yourself pretty easily - order the hitch off Amazon and install. I think U-Haul might install them - they carry trailer hitch attachments too. And you're gonna need some of these.

A child called it

Amazing story of a kid who survived the kind of shit that killed this child. He somehow grew up normal enough to be functional in society, and was even able to write about his experiences. The worst part of the book is where you find out that this WASN'T the WORST case of child abuse that that State had seen....