Each week John and Heidi 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, Nancy and Bob from Twig called in before frolicking to describe their breakfast of homemade buttery oatmeal with blueberries. 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 membership and an email !

We talk with artists, photographers, authors and nature enthusiasts frequently on KAXE/KBXE. Today we met Duluth nature photographer Dudley Edmonson. Dudley's career has spanned nearly 3 decades - he has been featured in galleries and in nearly 100 different publications. You can see his work in Stan Tekiela's Bird: The Definitive Visual Guide published by Audobon. His book "The Black and Brown Faces in America's Wild Places" features 20 other African Americans with deep connections to nature.

We talked with Karen Sunderman from WDSE/WRPT PBS North about Making It Up North - a show she produces and hosts spotlighting makers and artists in northern Minnesota. Karen and her crew were at the finale of the Great Northern Radio Show in Hibbing and created a great send off for the talented cast and crew from the last eight years. Listen to past Great Northern Radio Shows here!

The Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Catalog is the world’s largest, containing 1200-1800 varieties. For gardeners in snowy, cold northern Minnesota, January is a good time to dream about springtime and things that grow. That huge Baker Creek catalog is full of tasty, familiar, weird, and fascinating plants. To tell us more about what will grow well in this very northern locale (zones 3a and 3b) and help guide our selections, both in the catalog and beyond, we talked to Baker Creek horticulturist

It's cold. There's snow. And more snow and more cold. It's a WONDERFUL time to read in northern Minnesota and if you enjoy twists, turns and thrillers, Bryan Gruley's newest is out. It's called Purgatory Bay. Bryan Gruley is a journalist who shared with his colleagues at the Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of 9/11. Writer Michael Connelly says Purgatory Bay is “impossible to put down”.

Taking time to contemplate what is happening in nature is one of the many aspects of Northern Community Radio that sets us apart from any other radio station. Each day we bring you a phenology note where our resident phenologist John Latimer shares a note from his journals of more than 35 years of climate and nature data collection. Each Tuesday we dig even deeper with the weekly Phenology Report. Today, John talked of sighting ravens, rabbits, and bald eagles. He also mentions that coming soon

On our latest On the House conversation area real estate agent Jesse Davis introduced us to Chuck Miller with Floor to Ceiling in Grand Rapids. We talked about what's new in flooring - especially when it comes to LVT. Luxury vinyl tile.

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 we heard from kids in Grand Rapids, Hill City, Two Harbors, Northfield, and Weaver Lake. We also heard from Chris who we interviewed on

Cohasset, MN - Supporters of Our Mississippi Our Future are holding a community forum on Thursday, January 23 at the Cohasset Community Center from 5:00-7:30pm. This event is free, open to the public and a light meal will be served. Registration is requested. You can find registration links at ourmississippiourfuture.org/events or on our Facebook page. There will also be an event in Bemidji on Sunday January 26th at the First Lutheran Church in Bemidji from 3-5pm. Forums such as this,

If you walk into any grocery store or convenience store these days the dairy aisle is filled with alternatives to milk - in large part due to allergies and lactose intolerance. Large dairy companies like Borden and Dean's are declaring bankruptcy as less and less people are buying traditional milk. One family in Menahga, Minnesota is aiming to change that in our state. They are the first farm to produce Natural A2 milk. As they say on their website, "We know the great nutritional value of dairy