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, Charlie Hovde of Bagley stopped in to celebrate her birthday with French Toast and fresh blueberry preserves. 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 !

MN's 41st Governor Tim Walz check in with this morning as he continued his education tour in Greater MN. Take a listen!

Joey Halvorson joined us this morning to talk about a new exhibit and project honoring 20 women who graduated from Brainerd Public Schools.

Each week John and Jennifer 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, Susan Hoppe from Balkan Township was cooking up some fried, sunny-side-up eggs cooked in bacon grease on an English muffin with a tall glass of whole milk. 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

“You live your passion and stuff happens... things that come as naturally as breathing, I just, I have to do them.” – Debbie Center Lake life inspires Debbie Center’s artistic life. She loves all that the natural world of northern Minnesota has to offer and relishes in exploring the outdoors – particularly the beauty out the back door of her Nevis, MN home. A musician and photographer, Debbie incorporates the woods and waters into her artistic endeavors, capturing lake life in images and film

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, Doug Baker from Grand Rapids served up some orange juice, a cereal bar and a big cup of coffee. 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. This week he reflects on this date as far back as 1978. Also in this report are discoveries from journals in 1984, 1985 and even the adventure of hiking thru thigh deep snow and exploring a bear den in 1995. As always, we love to hear what our listeners are noticing out in nature

Lots of folks are bringing up the idea of socialism. Get the 2nd installment from conservative Chuck Marohn and liberal Aaron Brown on Dig Deep! Sign up for the Dig Deep podcast!

Every week we hear from Minnesota school kids and regular listeners as they call or email us with their nature observations. Snowbuntings, skunk sightings, robins, moose and swelling buds on trembling aspens are just a few of this week's developments. August from Shevlin shared the following poem which he found in his Waldorf school book: Whether the Weather Whether the weather be fine Or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold Or whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the

Program 40: Charles Blandin's Personal and Family Life 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 1870s. In those early days the