News and Updates
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Alma Community Foundation’s Match Day
It’s fundraising season again, and I wanted to let you know that the Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards will be participating in both the Alma Community Foundation’s Match Day on August 26th and the Wamego Community Foundation Match Day on October 2nd.Dear Prairie Guards...
Prairie Guards to Resume Annual Celebration
Join us - Saturday, June 3rd, 2023! The 10th Annual Mitchell Farm & Prairie Celebration will celebrate springtime and paying off the mortgage on the recent expansion of the Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park. The purchased acreage expanded the historic tallgrass...
The Wamego Match Day was a great success!!
The Wamego Match Day was a great success. We raised just under our goal of $25,000. Thank you to all who contributed! For those who still wish to contribute to Phase Two of our Park development plan our focus has moved to the Emporia Community Foundation Match Day on...
September 2021, DOUBLE MATCH again!
The Prairie Guards have again received generous challenge grants from the Miller/Hammond and HHM Charitable Foundations! Their gifts totaling $50,000 will retire our mortgage and the match we raise will be used as matching funds for additional grants that will allow...
Prairie Guards Reach Goal
Dear Prairie Guards and Friends of Mount Mitchell. I have good news; it’s time to celebrate! Thanks to the generosity of our many donors, we reached a milestone on Monday June 3rd when we became the new owners of the former Mitchell meadow and farmland next to the...