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 callers, Heather and dauther Elsbeth from Minneapolis described their Friday morning tradition of oven pancakes (aka Dutch Baby) served with cinnamon sugar, syrup, and/or honey. 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

Mychal Stittsworth is owner and CEO of Stittsworth Meats in Bemidji. What began as a family-operated meat market in Nymore has grown and changed substantially under Mychal’s leadership. In the KAXE/KBXE Local Food interview below, we discovered that many of the changes in the Stittsworth business model reflect broader changes in the meat industry—in markets, on farms, in schools, and at grocery stores. Mychal Stittsworth grew up in the business and also trained as an engineer. I asked Mychal to

Today we welcomed MN author James Luger in our studios for the 1st Friday Cavalcade of the Arts. James has a new novel called "Lost in Dalat - The Courage of a Family Torn by War". He'll be signing books todayt (November 1st) at the Village Bookstore in Grand Rapids from 4-6pm.

In this podcast-only Strong Women conversation Heidi Holtan and Laura Connelly talk about books targeted to women's self esteem and podcasts they are listening to that break down the power structures in our country - Dolly Parton's America from WNYC and 1619 from the New York Times.

In 2017, the number of young Minnesotans using tobacco rose for the first time in 17 years due to a surge in e-cigarette use. Since then, the crisis has only gotten worse. According to the 2019 Minnesota Student Survey, 26.4 percent of Minnesota 11 th graders reported using an e-cigarette in the past 30 days. That represents a 54 percent increase from the 2016 survey. Usage rates also climbed among 8 th and 9 th graders. Earlier this week there was a meeting of legislators to learn more and

Minnesota has a thriving rural arts community . People working in rural places and small towns are making just as visionary work , that is just as smart just and important as anybody in the Twin Cities . I love the Twin Cities … I love going there . I love the work that's happening there . But it is not the center of the universe . There are a lot of artists doing really visionary work out in greater Minnesota . And the only thing that we lack out in greater Minnesota is the same level of

...the feedback that we've received from the exhibition... it's been incredibly emotional because it's such a heavy topic . People have their own personal experiences that they bring to the exhibition - family experiences... I think one of the greatest things that I've witnessed is the fact that with this exhibition traveling, it allows these other organizations that work directly with battered women or women's issues to be able to come together and provide access to services ... . we had a

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 full Phenology Report. If you appreciate this programming, become a member today or increase the contribution amount of your

Tuesdays are special at Northern Community Radio and when school is in session, we are even more jazzed than normal because young phenologists across Minnesota call in their classroom phenology reports. This week we heard about turkeys and chipmunks and snake, oh my! Tyler in Ely had an incredible quote in addition to his report that he saw a European bellflower growing up thru a sidewalk crack. In response to his sighting he stated, "Nature seems to always win in the end." Sage words from one

Today we heard a conversation about many conversations between women invited to participate in our Strong Women segment. These are the ideas we began with: What are our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship with power, influence and authority and how does this show up in the way we talk? The position women are placed in the socially defined hierarchy of power impacts and affects all aspects of our lives, our thoughts, our passions, the way we conduct ourselves, the way we talk and also