Summer Property Tour 3: Caroline Beckett and Frank Sandner
Sat, Aug 27
|Beckett and Sandner Residence
We steward our 66-acre property that supports oak woodland, prairie, and a pasture-to-prairie conversion. We’ve been working with the WI DNR to establish pollinator- and wildlife-friendly prairie areas as well as converting our woods to habitat for woodland critters and plants.
Time & Location
Aug 27, 2022, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Beckett and Sandner Residence, 5452 County Rd K, Blue Mounds, WI 53517, USA
Guests
About the event
We steward our 66-acre property that supports oak woodland, prairie, and a pasture-to-prairie conversion. We’ve been working with the WI DNR to establish pollinator- and wildlife-friendly prairie areas as well as converting our woods to habitat for woodland critters and plants. Burning, brush clearing and some carefully-applied spraying and mowing are on-going techniques. Each year brings new surprises! Perhaps of interest to our tour attendees is a wooded section of mostly buckthorn that we cleared this spring. Half of the work was done by machines—a woods mower on a bobcat—and half by a crew armed with chainsaws and sprayers. We look forward to seeing what this area is like in August!