By Cindy Baldwin
When Kent and Nancy Rawson built a house down the road from the farmstead where Kent grew up, there was one thing they knew they wanted to include — a windbreak. The Rawsons are the 2016 McPherson County Windbreak Award winner and will be recognized at the McPherson County Soil Conservation Banquet and Annual Meeting. The windbreak, two rows of cedar trees providing a barrier between the road ditch and the yard, was built in 1990 when the Rawsons built their home. Nearly 27 years later the bareroot saplings Rawson planted have grown into a nearly solid barrier protecting the house from Kansas’ south winds and dust and noise from the road.
