Each week Sarah 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, some guy named Johnny Bauer shared his breakfast in an Airbnb outside of Nashville. 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 !

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Every Tuesday morning, our resident Phenologist John Latimer gathers his phenological data and reports his findings in the weekly Phenology Report. In this week's report, John reflects on the 47 nature notes he jotted down this week and makes predictions about what we will see between now and this coming Tuesday! John created a sweet worksheet you can download and use to collect your own phoenological data. Wood frogs,

Every week we hear from Minnesota school kids as they share what they've been observing outside. Things are hopping out in nature these days, and we don't just mean the frogs. Loons, killdeer, robins, trumpeter swans, snake shed, goldeneye and yellowbellied sapsuckers are just a few of what students and listeners reported seeing. Click the links to hear the full reports! What are you noticing outside? We would love to hear from you whether you are in a classroom or your living room! Don't

Program 52 Early 1930s: Change the Name of the Town? Transportation and Entertainment A radio series produced by historian Don Boese. Don is the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi", and the main source for this series, "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota". The series begins with the arrival of the first Euro-Americans to the forested wilderness of Itasca County in the

Scott Lowery is a poet and educator from Rollingstone in the bluff country of southeastern Minnesota. In his poem "Calling the Border", Kafka meets ICE with sadly predictable results.

Monday mornings at 7:20 we bring you Northern Voices with Leah Lemm. 'Northern Voices: Celebrating Ties to Minnesota's Northland,' shares sustainable, traditional, indigenous, and ancestral practices of Northern Minnesotans. Through these conversations, 'Northern Voices' celebrates the richness of individual, organizational, and communal ways of life within the region. This week we head to the sugarbush with JoDan Rousu.

We checked in with Peter Callaghan from Minn Post this morning about where the MN Legislature has been and what they've got left to do.

Chuck poses the question for our podcast only edition of Dig Deep this month. Is there something special about small towns? Where people pull together? Do you cross groups and have more personal connections that make us more altruistic? Sign up for the Dig Deep podcast!

This week Timberjay editor Marshall Helmberger broke the story that questions the IRRR's hiring of Joe Radinovich for a non-political position. Marshall Helmberger REGIONAL— For more than 20 years, Sandy Layman, of Grand Rapids, has worked to convince lawmakers in St. Paul that the Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation is more than a revolving door of political patronage for Iron Range DFLers. Layman, now a Republican House member, first served on the IRRR board in the 1990s and

Dig Deep continues the conversation this time moving into solutions for social problems. Students in Aaron Brown's Hibbing Community College classes have over the last 10 years always listed "there's nothing to do in this town" as one of the biggest problems. As Aaron explains here - building a new mall or new kids museum won't change issues of poverty and substance abuse. Chuck Marohn says these problems are multi-vector. They don't have one simple cause so they don't have one simple solution.