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  <title><![CDATA[Prairie Flint Circle]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Prairie Flint Circle is a community center in Salina, Kansas, offering free programs, kitchen rentals, a seed library, and open gathering space since 2014.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The summer garden series starts July 10]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Six Thursday evenings, six different gardeners, one long table outside. The Summer Garden Series is back and this year we are focusing on drought-tolerant growing for the High Plains. Free to attend, bring a chair if you have one.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-20</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Delia Reyes on three years at Prairie Flint]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Our part-time coordinator Delia Reyes joined us in June 2021. We asked her to write something about what those three years have looked like from the inside. She did, and it is worth reading.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-05</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Seed library update: 22 new varieties added for summer]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The spring seed swap brought in more than we expected. We added 22 new varieties to the library in May, including two types of cowpea, a Hopi red dye amaranth, and a climbing bean from a family in Ellsworth County that has been saving it for four generations.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-14</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to start a seed library at your community center]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2017, I had too many tomato seeds and a cabinet with an empty drawer. That is genuinely how the Prairie Flint Circle seed library started. No grant, no plan, no policy. Just a label maker and a question: what if people could take seeds the way they take books from a little free library? Eight years later we have 334 varieties and a small but real community of people who grow, save, and return seeds every season. Here is what I have learned.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-15</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What to know before renting a community kitchen in Kansas]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Kansas has relatively straightforward cottage food laws, but there is still a gap between what you can legally make at home and what you can sell at scale. A licensed commercial kitchen fills that gap. At Prairie Flint Circle, we have had bakers, fermenters, tamale makers, and a woman who makes the best horseradish mustard I have ever tasted all use our kitchen. Here is what I tell people before they book their first session.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-01-22</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Running a drop-in maker program for kids: what actually works]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Youth Maker Afternoons started in the fall of 2021 as a two-day-a-week experiment. Delia Reyes, our program coordinator, set up a folding table with a sewing machine, some scrap fabric, and a box of cardboard. Seven kids showed up the first Tuesday. By the end of the school year, we had a regular group of about fifteen, a donated soldering station, and a small woodworking corner. Here is what we have figured out over five years of running it.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-02-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to organize a community potluck that people actually come back to]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[We have hosted potlucks at Prairie Flint Circle since the very first month we were open. The first one had fourteen people and too much bread. The most recent one had forty-seven people and a brisket someone smoked for fourteen hours. The format has barely changed. Here is what we have learned about making a community potluck into something people mark on their calendar.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-01</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How a small-town mutual aid network actually works]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Prairie Flint Circle mutual aid network started during the winter of 2020, when a lot of people suddenly needed help and a lot of other people suddenly had time to give it. We set up a shared spreadsheet, put a sign on the door, and started matching people. Four years later it is still running, still on a spreadsheet, and still doing the thing it was built to do. Here is how it works and why we have not tried to make it more complicated.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2025-11-18</pubDate>
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