From left, Dan Lyons, observatory and garden director of Hawthorn Hallow, Kyle Woller, Becky Leveque and Joanna Roth work to move soil for a labyrinth at the nature sanctuary on Thursday, May 4, 2017. The labyrinth, located on the sanctuary’s the newly acquired land, is part of an initiative to create the Hawthorn Hallow Homestead Garden. The area will be home to a vegetable garden, an apiary, and area for heirloom popcorn along with the labyrinth, which will also have heirloom popcorn. The variety of popcorn to be planted is Smoke Signals Heirloom Popcorn, which has been procured through seed exchanges in Iowa. The idea behind the Homestead Garden is to provide a resource for educational field trips for area schools and organizations. The labyrinth itself will have 25,000-square-feet of planting area for the heirloom corn and will boast 12,000-square-feet of walking path, which will
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Dan Lyons, observatory and garden director of Hawthorn Hollow works to move soil for a labyrinth at the nature sanctuary on Thursday, May 4, 2017.
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Dan Lyons pours mulch into the foot path of the Homestead Garden at Hawthorn Hollow on July 29.
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Dan Lyons, of Hawthorn Hollow, left, creates an eruption in a sand volcano as Weston Kain, 4, center, and Max Diel, 8, look on during a Wildlife Explorers event hosted by Kenosha County Parks at Petrifying Springs Park on Thursday, July 20, 2017.
Dan Lyons is the observatory director and the Homestead Garden manager at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum. Lyons was born and raised in Kenosha and worked part time at the sanctuary while in high school and part of his college years. After college, he returned and has been full-time staff member for the past four years.
From left, Dan Lyons, observatory and garden director of Hawthorn Hallow, Kyle Woller, Becky Leveque and Joanna Roth work to move soil for a labyrinth at the nature sanctuary on Thursday, May 4, 2017. The labyrinth, located on the sanctuary’s the newly acquired land, is part of an initiative to create the Hawthorn Hallow Homestead Garden. The area will be home to a vegetable garden, an apiary, and area for heirloom popcorn along with the labyrinth, which will also have heirloom popcorn. The variety of popcorn to be planted is Smoke Signals Heirloom Popcorn, which has been procured through seed exchanges in Iowa. The idea behind the Homestead Garden is to provide a resource for educational field trips for area schools and organizations. The labyrinth itself will have 25,000-square-feet of planting area for the heirloom corn and will boast 12,000-square-feet of walking path, which will
Dan Lyons, of Hawthorn Hollow, left, creates an eruption in a sand volcano as Weston Kain, 4, center, and Max Diel, 8, look on during a Wildlife Explorers event hosted by Kenosha County Parks at Petrifying Springs Park on Thursday, July 20, 2017.
