University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 1, 1987
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Local farm is tourist attraction
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
The roosters are always crowing at Henrys' Greenhouse.
They should. Roy and Marcia Henry own a lot of chickens, as well as geese, ponies, turkeys, cows and goats.
Their sheep and donkeys are penned in fields next to a gravel road that runs by their greenhouse and farm, a mile off Douglas County Road 1023. just west of Stull.
The fowl pretty much have the run of the yard, which is covered with working and antiquated farm equipment. Behind the house yesterday, a group of hens was hanging out under an evergreen, which was next to a garden, which was on the edge of a field of oats. The field swept up a hill overlooking surrounding farms and down into a gully and a nearly dry creek.
At the creek, if the wind is right, you can hear the roosters.
"It's quiet," said Marcia Henry, who has lived with her husband at the farm for 20 years. "There's a lot of pretty rolling hills around here."
The rolling hills, the barns and the animals are what attracted Robert Sudlow, professor of art. Sudlow has taken students to the farm this semester to paint the farm and its surrounding landscape.
"I think it was a little confusing." Sudlow said. "There's so many animals and so much stuff. They didn't know where to look."
"They were interested," he said. "They tried to draw the animals, and the animals moved. They had never seen such a place, I don't think."
But his students enjoyed the trips, he said.
Neither have many younger students, Henry said. She gives tours of the family farm to groups of preschool and elementary school children. Ten groups went through in April.
"It's fun to expose them to the farm and animals and the smell," she said. "They hold their noses when they go into the barn."
Henry has experience with children. She taught high school for a few years in Perry in the early 1970s. Now, she and her husband make a living from soybeans, milo, hay, sheep, cattle and eggs.
But the stories about tough times on the farm are true, Henry said. So they sell plants from a greenhouse to bolster their income.
"I like to sell my own," she said. "I like to say, 'That's mine,' and I take pride in selling my own thing and not somebody else's."
She sometimes worries that people won't want to make the 10-mile trip from Lawrence, she said, but cus-
sion was more of an excuse through the countryside is worth it.
"I think what a lot of people enjoy about coming out here to get their plants is to see the farm," she said.
The plywood floor of the greenhouse office is a little dirty, but the Henrys' 3-month-old Shetland sheep has his best to spread the dust argound.
The Henrys also sell seeds and crafts, which rest on antique furniture in the office. Seven bottles of Acme insecticide sit on an old pump organ. The office is dark and cool, and its windows are greenhouses and its rows of plants.
The Henrys are in their early 408 and have a lot of years ahead of them at the farm, Henry said. But she doesn't know whether their 12-year-old and 10-year-old sons will stay.
"It think farming's going to be something you're not going to be able to make a living at anymore." But, she said, "It'a great place to live."
KANU has annual fund-raising drive
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Six days into an eight-day fundraising drive for KU's public radio station, coffers were $40,000 short of the station's $85,000 minimum goal, a station official said yesterday.
Contributions short of $85,000 goal
As of 5 p.m. yesterday, listeners had contributed $40,000, said Al Berman, director of development for the MTV show's 5 F.M. drive edits Saturday.
"I still have to hope people will come through," he said. "No one ever knows."
The $85,000 goal is for basic operating expenses, Berman said. If KANU fell short, the station would have to cut back in several areas, including programming, he said.
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Although yesterday's total was a little higher than the total at this time last year, Berman wouldn't predict whether the goal would be met.
However, Howard Hill, KANU general manager, was more optimistic that the goal would be met. "You build momentum as you go." he said.
But Hill said that the station might not raise an additional $15,000 it wanted to help pay for a planned expansion of its news staff. Berman said the expansion would give reporters time to do more enterprise and investigative stories.
Listener contributions to KANU amount to more than one-third of the station's entire budget, Berman said. The other two-thirds come from the state of Kansas and contributions are tax deductible.
To encourage contributions, KANU is awarding to the highest contributor a trip to the next-to-last performance of the popular Prairie Home Companion show on June 12.
The show, which stars Garrison Keillor and the fictional Lake Wobegon, Minn., broadcasts its final live show June 13 in St. Paul, Minn.
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