Birds, deer, wild pigs – they eat sand plums, or sand hill plums as some people call them. Native Americans used to make a kind of flower meal from the seeds. Dickinson said they’re good for you.

Do you know what the Sandhill plum is? Well, if you live in Kansas you probably know what it is because the sand hill plum is one of the most native fruits in Kansas! The sandhill plum also known ...

Clair Moore of Stafford runs a bed-and-breakfast that offers people a chance to go out and pick sandhill plums for themselves ... to leave asphalt in quest of sand roads, not blinking in the ...

Jerry Schmidt and friends walked roller-coaster trails past shoulder-high big bluestem grasses that bobbed in the breeze, where four or five kinds of wildflowers could be seen at once. Myriad ...

Here, native grasses and wildflowers grow from sand dunes, as do thickets of sand hill plums. (Check downtown stores for sand hill plum jelly, a local delicacy). Great Bend was founded in 1871 and ...