“It’s my favorite jam, as well. I used to be a strawberry guy, but now sand plum is my favorite jam.” Birds, deer, wild pigs – they eat sand plums, or sand hill plums as some people call them.

More than 400 Kansas fourth- and fifth-graders are pushing for the Kansas Legislature to declare the sandhill plum as the state fruit. You can read more about that effort here. It's obvious Kansas ...