Located five miles west of Madison, Pope Farms Park was farmland deeded to the city of Middleton in 1999 for a historical park and prairie restoration. A stone wall, dating from the early 1900s, separates a picnic area and the prairie from a huge sunflower field.
The park, in western Dane County, is on the eastern fringes of the Driftless Area, a large geological area.
Much of the Driftless Region is in southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota. The term “driftless” refers to the land which escaped the “drifting” of the last glacier — the Wisconsin Glacier — about 100,000 years ago. Deep valleys and high ridges are predominant, and there is no drift, or debris, which the retreating glacier deposited in other regions of Wisconsin.
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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She spent several hours wandering in the sunflower field. More sunflower photography is coming!




