Bernis Ingvaldson and her husband Jim started Honeyberry Farm on their 2 1/2 acre home place 7 years ago. They started building their log home in 2004 and moved in in 2oo5. In the winter of 2010 Bernis saw a new blue-colored fruit in a gardening magazine, called honeyberry. She tasted them in Canada. Soon she and Jim had planted an acre of honeyberries and some other fruit. Bernis says, "It's the oddest looking berry you've probably ever seen in your life. Every honeyberry has its own shape.

We continue our series of conversations on Making Sausage with Governor candidates. MN State Auditor Rebecca Otto stopped by our studios recently to tell us why she is running in 2018.

Lorna Landvik has been many things in her life - an actress, a comedian, a temp worker at the Playboy mansion....but what she is loved for in Minnesota is her novels. 22 years later, she's written a sequel to her very first book Patty Jane's House of Curl and it's just been published by the University of MN Press . Lorna Landvik will be at the Village Bookstore in Grand Rapids this Saturday July 15th from 11-1pm signing her new book Once in a Blue Moon Lodge. Read the Star Tribune review of Once

Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn continue the conversation on education in this next episode. Most school districts in northern Minnesota find themselves in situations that involve their older buildings with failing infrastructure. But where do the models for the future of schools come from? How come most school districts have the same answer to their problems - leaving old buildings for larger, consolidated buildings on the edge of towns? What COULD we do instead? We want to know what you think.

Every week we gather the Phenology comments, questions and observations from listeners and share them with the world during the Phenology Talkback segment of the Tuesday Morning Show. Click on the link to hear what your neighbors have been noticing! What have you been witnessing in nature? We'd love to hear about it. Give us a jingle to leave a voice message at 218.999.9876 or send an email along.

Click on the link for today's full Phenology Report ! Also included this week is important information about upcoming one day Master Naturalist Workshop that will prepare teachers and others to be phenological guides and get kids jazzed about observing the natural world around them. If you have questions, comments or observations related to phenology, send an email along or leave a message on our talkback line 218-999-9876 . You can also check out photographs, videos and threads related to

This month our Dig Deep topic is Education. Many have suggested this topic, as school funding and consolidation has an effect on many in northern MN. In this first conversation our commentators Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn look at the history of education. Our forefathers like Thomas Jefferson made sure that the articles of incorporation upheld this noble idea that farm kids and regular people were capable of learning things like Greek and governing themselves. There was this idea that the

Program 26: Paper Trust Busted 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 site that became the

Eric Bergeson has written a new book especially for gardeners in the Dakotas and northwestern Minnesota, called Successful Gardening on the Northern Prairie . Eric hails from the town of Fertile, MN, population 800, located about midway between Bemidji and Fargo. His grandfather started Bergeson Nursery in 1936, growing strawberries in the middle of a peat bog. After the depression grandfather Melvin started raising windbreak stock and supplied millions of trees to farmers in a bid to stop

This morning we talked with MN singer songwriter Reina del Cid. She's in concert at the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm and also teaching a songwriting class at 1pm. She's a frequent guest on the Great Northern Radio Show and will be part of our CenterStage MN concert series next year at t he Reif Center. Listen in!