If you've ever wanted to find out where local food comes from, or if you're interested in becoming a local grower yourself, there's an opportunity to visit Floodwood River Farm between 9 and 11 a.m. this Saturday morning as part of the 4th Annual Iron Range Harvest Festival . Visitors can check out how the Hietalas grow and harvest veggies and fruits, and how they process pickles and salsa for sale at the farmers' market in Hibbing . Both Jill Hietala and her husband Rob work full time. They

Did you know that computing skills are the most sought after in the US job market but the share of women in the computer workforce has declined from 37% in 1995 to 24% today. If Reshma Saujani and her crew at Girls Who Code has any say in it, that number will change. She started the non-profit Girls Who Code, and now there's a book and new fiction series to spur girls to invent and as she says, change the world.

This month MacRostie Art Center is not only holding their usual exhbit, they are putting on many community events all revolving around the idea of " We Are All Criminals". Here's a lineup: Art Exhibits September 1 –30, 2017 MacRostie Art Center, GR AreaLibrary, Itasca County YMCA First Friday Opening Reception September 1,4– 7pm, MacRostie Art Center “15 to Life:Kenneth’s Story” Film Screening &Discussion September 6,11am– 1 pm, GR AreaLibrary Our Community’s Untapped Workforce: Chamber

Every week we gather listener comments and questions about nature and discuss them during the Phenology Show on the Tuesday Mornings. Today we also talked with an adventurer who camped along the Mississippi River near the KAXE Studios last night. Daniel Lee is paddle boarding the Mississippi River raising money and awareness for the American Camping Association ( ACA) . ACA provides funding necessary for kids to experience camps and the outdoors, affecting 7.2M kids every summer. Find out more

Tuesdays are dedicated to the natural world around us here at KAXE/KBXE . The Phenology Report provides a comprehensive look at what's what's changing color, flying, blooming, ripening and happening in nature here in northern Minnesota. What have you noticed? Send us a note via email or leave a voicemail at 218.999.9876. We'd love to hear about it. Love this stuff? Check out our KAXE-KBXE Season Watch Page on Facebook!

At Great River Rescue in Bemidji, a small group of volunteer animal trainers are making a profound difference in animals' lives. The Mod Squad re-trains dogs with bad behaviors so they can be adopted into forever homes. Ethan Larson stopped by to talk about the program and he even brought his own little rescue dog, Shiloh.

Program 34 The Deal Gets Done: Charles Blandin Takes Control of the Paper Mill, 1916 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

Every Friday editor and publisher of the Timberjay Marshall Helmberger fills us in on the stories for the week. Is this a favorite part of your week? Let us know!

David Manuel is passionate about providing healthy food for the people of the Red Lake Nation . "Food defined our existence," he explains. "We migrated from season to season, making different camps at different locations all around northern Minnesota. All the way up to Rainy River where they speared sturgeon in the spring. We usually went up there after our sugarbush. Our sugarbush is our New Year. It's the beginning of the new year...That's what we're going to be talking about at the [Red Lake

Thursday mornings we gather John Bauer, Fred Friedman and Kyle Erickson to talk MN sports. Send us your feedback!