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Prairie House LLC

The 18 acre prairie provides a dynamic collage of colors in three seasons.

Nature lovers and prairie enthusiasts will appreciate this spacious modern 4 bedroom/3.5 bath prairie style home built to complement its magnificent surroundings. Prairie House’s 120 acres of glacial drumlin and wetland bays of the Rock River Watershed are located downstream from Horicon Marsh, the largest freshwater cattail marsh in North America. The Prairie House features a passive solar design

with vista views of the prairie and lake, cedar screened porch, observation deck, recreation room, living room with lannon stone fireplace and Steinway grand piano, well-equipped gourmet kitchen, indoor/oudoor family games and library with books for all ages with spotting scope/binoculars/nature guides. On-site activities include boating the scenic bays of Lake Sinissippi where the bald eagles nest (two kayaks, two canoes and a paddleboat provided) and hiking the Prairie House trails that traverse prairie, woods and over a half mile of naturalized shoreline. Located an hour away from the cultural centers of Milwaukee and Madison, and two hours from Chicago, Prairie House is an inspiring natural setting for retreats and family gatherings in every season.

06/02/2022

Good day from the Prairie House!
The tree peonies had a brief but glorious bloom time and the prairie is greening up nicely after the spring burn. We’re having a late spring and the kitchen garden’s slowly getting established. Spied a newborn fawn on wobbly legs in the prairie the other day and we’re happy to see the eagles back at the nest after losing their eaglets last February.
Best spring wishes!

12/05/2021

We are grateful to the Prairie House guests who have graced our doorstep through every season for the past 16 years and wish you and our family and friends a wonderful and healthy holiday season!

We still have a few weeks available for Prairie House rentals in May/June of 2022 and going forward we’re taking a sabbatical from short term rentals and will keep you posted if this changes.

Meanwhile, Laurie continues to provide health coach services and Larry manages the Kettle Moraine Youth Aviation non-profit mentoring local high school students to develop aviation and teamwork skills building an RV-12. Donations to the non-profit and seasoned pilots and airplane builders who want to share their expertise as a volunteer mentor, please reach out to Larry to learn more. With love and best wishes this holiday season,
Laurie and Larry

11/07/2021

Don’t forget the clocks fall back an hour tomorrow - wishing you and your families a blessed pre-holiday season!

10/05/2021

Best fall wishes!
We’ve had some gentle rains and cooler temps here in Dodge County and I was headed out to hunt for maitake mushrooms aka hen of the woods, and came across this shaggy-looking mushroom that appears to be what’s called “Shaggy Mane” or “lawyer’s wig”, (Latin name: Coprinus comatus).
Wanting to be 100% sure this was the edible gourmet mushroom Shaggy Mane rather than a poisonous look-a-like I left it alone to research further. When I stepped out the next morning into the wet grass it appeared that a deer had eaten them and another kind of mushroom had popped up?
So I returned to look up the new mushroom and learned that the Shaggy Mane has a fascinating manner of dispersing it’s spores called “deliquescence” - it auto-digests its cap starting from the bottom up curling into an inky mass leaving the flattened cap within a few hours!
So you don’t want to pick this one too late or when you put it in the refrigerator it will turn into an inky puddle. There’s a cool time lapse video of this process for those who want to learn more.

08/09/2021

Wishing you health and joys amidst the quickly passing summer - just taking a moment to share the beauty of Wisconsin in summer and to express gratitude for family, friends and our wonderful Prairie House guests!

08/04/2021

This beauty was so intent on getting nectar from every flower on the rosinweed plant she didn’t seem to mind my taking a few photos. The female black swallowtails tend to be larger than the males with blue markings on the back, and males have yellow markings! The underwing is more colorfully marked with yellow, blue and orange. Unlike the monarch, they don’t migrate but instead overwinter here in Wisconsin in the chrysalis form that resembles a dried leaf. Their favorite plants are in the carrot family - dill, parsley and queen Ann’s lace (wild carrot).

07/10/2021

Hope you enjoy this virtual mid-summer prairie walk. There were 139 species of prairie forbs and grasses planted in 1999 and we’ve identified about 85:

07/04/2021

We wish you and your families a safe and wonderful 4th of July!
After a dry spring we’re grateful to have gotten some rain last week for the prairie, gardens, cherries and berries. . . here are some rainy day photos - take care and hope that you enjoy this window of summer in bloom!

06/25/2021

Wishing you a great summer from the Prairie House!
This thistle photo was taken at the rhubarb festival at the Art Farm near Holy Hill in the town of Erin last weekend. We have one rhubarb plant in the Prairie House garden and we learned some tips on how to make strawberry/rhubarb salsa.
Thistles are prickly and one good thing about them is that they’re a favorite food for goldfinches.
We hiked around the farm fields and sampled strawberry/rhubarb jelly and rhubarb wine and listened to the Seigmann Family Band play bluegrass/gospel music. This was a first visit to the art farm and we recommend stopping in at their beautiful farm tucked away in the hills of Erin overlooking Holy Hill. Their events are listed at www.Holyhillartfarm.com

05/27/2021

The purple finches have adapted the front door wreath and are working on their second brood.
Have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

05/21/2021

Wisconsin spring is finally in full swing - wishing you joy amidst the busy spring season!

“Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not being singular or particular, but one
of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”

- Mary Oliver (Dog Songs)

05/09/2021

Happy Mother’s Day from the Prairie House! Erin captured the photo of the baby sandhill crossing the road - the other baby was dawdling behind in the grass. . .what’s a mom to do?
The spring songbirds are nesting around the farm - a purple finch family has taken over the wreath on the front door. With gratitude for the miracle of birth and our innate capacity to nurture, mentor and care for others, the world, ourselves💖🌎.

04/04/2021

It’s a lovely spring day at the Prairie House - Blessed Easter to all who celebrate!
It’s a joy to see the daffodils finally blooming today and the prairie starting to green up after the recent prairie burn. The garden seedlings started 2 weeks ago are coming along - heirloom tomatoes, roasting peppers and eggplant at this point. We’ll plant the cool weather lettuce, spinach, kale and peas outdoors this week and look forward to May when the spring tulips, lilacs and asparagus are blooming.
Wishing you a healthy and joyous spring from the Prairie House!

03/20/2021

Thank you for helping out prairie burn team - it’s always difficult to predict the winds and we appreciate your last minute willingness and enthusiasm to get the job done!

03/20/2021

This is a view from the south end as Larry set the head fire.

03/20/2021

Wishing you health and joy on this spring equinox day!
We had a window of perfect winds for a much needed prairie burn this morning. We try to burn a third of the 18 acre prairie every 3 years. It’s never a given that it will go smoothly even though Larry seems to have it down to a science and we’re grateful for the friends who came out to make it happen like clockwork. Our team this year consisted of Larry, Erin, Laurie, Josh, Ken, Rick and Sue - thank you!!
It’s a relief to have that behind us - it took about 1.5 hours in all. The back fire was slow to light as there was a bit of morning frost and the ground warmed up pretty quickly so that the head fire swept through in a flash. In a month the prairie will be greened up and abuzz with nesting birds et al.
Controlled prairie burns have been a strategy for prairie maintenance for thousands of years. In the Midwest the Native American tribes of the Plains burned the prairie to discourage tree growth and encourage new growth of grasses to attract bison and establish prairie and oak savanna. While bison no longer roam wild (there are bison raised on farms in the area) we love that the prairie is a haven for native plants, birds, butterflies, and other beneficial wildlife. The deep-rooted prairie plants restore the soil on this former farm and serve as an excellent buffer strip between maintained turf and adjacent lake. We wish you an excellent spring!

02/25/2021

Larry and Erin captured the photo of the female bald eagle tending her nest on Eagle Island. Both the male and female take turns incubating the eggs. They lay their eggs in the freezing cold in late February and it takes about 35 days for the eaglets to hatch.
This will be the 21st season the bald eagles have returned to nest on the east bay of Lake Sinissippi and it’s always a joy to see them! They’ve raised 2-3 eaglets each year and have made a great comeback across the country since they were removed from the endangered species list in 2007.
It’s been an exceptional winter in southeast Wisconsin for outdoor sports with an abundance of thick powdery snow. The last Prairie House group had a wonderful time exploring the woods on cross-country skis and left a nicely packed trail for others to enjoy.
We still have Prairie House openings in May and Mother’s Day is a lovely week to visit with lilacs and tulips in bloom, eaglets in the nest, migrating song birds, asparagus in the gardens and the ever-elusive morels in the woods.
Every best wish for your health and happiness as winter rounds the corner into spring wherever you may be.

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Juneau, WI
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Wishing you health and joy on this spring equinox day! We had a window of perfect winds for a much needed prairie burn this morning. We try to burn a third of the 18 acre prairie every 3 years. It’s never a given that it will go smoothly even though Larry seems to have it down to a science and we’re grateful for the friends who came out to make it happen like clockwork. Our team this year consisted of Larry, Erin, Laurie, Josh, Ken, Rick and Sue - thank you!! It’s a relief to have that behind us - it took about 1.5 hours in all. The back fire was slow to light as there was a bit of morning frost and the ground warmed up pretty quickly so that the head fire swept through in a flash. In a month the prairie will be greened up and abuzz with nesting birds et al. Controlled prairie burns have been a strategy for prairie maintenance for thousands of years. In the Midwest the Native American tribes of the Plains burned the prairie to discourage tree growth and encourage new growth of grasses to attract bison and establish prairie and oak savanna. While bison no longer roam wild (there are bison raised on farms in the area) we love that the prairie is a haven for native plants, birds, butterflies, and other beneficial wildlife. The deep-rooted prairie plants restore the soil on this former farm and serve as an excellent buffer strip between maintained turf and adjacent lake. We wish you an excellent spring!