Tuesdays are special at Northern Community Radio because we focus on climate and nature. When school is in session, we are even more jazzed than normal because in addition to hearing reports from our listeners as they sent in their observations of natural world, we also young phenologists across Minnesota when call in their classroom phenology reports. This week, in addition to the classroom reports we heard from Ian in Minneapolis. John also comments on a video of a mountain lion recently

The Women’s Leadership Fund, a non-profit and all-volunteer effort to support and accelerate the strengths and skills of women in organizational leadership positions, is now recruiting for its WELead peer advisory Cohorts that will begin in April 2020 in Brainerd/Little Falls region. Deadline to apply is February 1st. Each group is made of up to 10 women leaders who meet monthly and support and advise on each other’s personal and professional goals. Women who are directors or small business

The Anishinaabe have always said that there's a choice between two paths . One is well-worn but scorched and the other is not well-worn and it's green . We're always told to be arduous in our choice upon which path to walk ... I feel like at this moment in time , that's where we are . And this pipeline is really about that moment of what we want to do - for the water and for the future . So this story and this film...is up to date , showing the commitment of people on the frontlines and the

The new proposed line 3 Pipeline from Enbridge Energy travels throughout the KAXE/KBXE listening area. The pipeline was built in the 1960s and travels from Edmonton, Alberta to Superior Wisconsin. Heidi Holtan was joined in the studio by Enbridge Energy Project Director for the Line 3 Replacement Project Barry Simonson – Vice President of US Operations for Enbridge Brad Shamlo and Midwest Region Director of Operations Trent Wetmore. Brad Shamlo talked about the status of the Line 3 Pipeline

So being a refugee is like you are just a number. But you know, pretty soon when we became a number, my husband and I, we realized that we were a lucky number because we survived the war in Bosnia. Fatima Said is executive director of Project Fine in Winona, MN. The mission of Project FINE is to strengthen and enrich community by helping to integrate ethnically diverse people. Project FINE is committed to providing support and education to immigrants and refugees to benefit everyone in our

...besides the lakes and the woods and everything else , a big part of Turtle River is the people who live there ...all the...artisan-type people that live in Turtle River... per capita, I think we're pretty high on talented people - Mark Schultz ...it's just a different kind of lifestyle . And I think that for creative people , it really helps to have that that sense of calm... and separation - a place of your own . - Jeremiah Liend ...I got married and my wife and I lived in other parts of the

I used to work digitally a lot... and I just realized that it was lacking like a hand made hand-done quality to what I was looking for . And so the style kind of emerged once I found the medium wash . And then from there , I've spent the last few years kind of working in this style and developing it . - Aimee Bouchard Aimee Bouchard parlayed her artistic passion into her career as a graphic desinger. She's now moved full circle, from designing on the computer screen back to designing on

Hear our What We're Reading interview with Delia Owens, author of the popular book Where the Crawdads Sing (aired December, 2018).

Each week John and Sarah pull up a chair to one of our member’s kitchen tables and get to know them a little bit better. This week’s caller, Maureen from Grand Rapids hadn't had breakfast, but her three kids ate instant oatmeal, cereal bars, five pieces of bread, and honey toast. Yum! Hear the whole conversation by clicking below. Thanks to our sponsor Homestead Mills for their support of this program! Let us know if you want to be our guest on What's For Breakfast . All it takes is your

Jackie Clay Atkinson is a homesteader, writer, and blogger from Angora MN. She writes for Backwoods Home Magazine . She and her husband Will also grow and sell heirloom and open pollinated seeds through their seed catalog, Seed Treasures . Jackie talked to us on the Wednesday Morning Show. Maggie Montgomery (MM): Tell us about your place in Angora. Jackie Clay Atkinson (JCA): Well, let's see…our driveway’s a mile and a half long through the woods. And when you finally get to the end, we've got a