Many Montanans have experienced standing in a wheatfield, running their hands over the tops of the golden stalks, and letting the spiky, hair-like awns tickle their palms. But imagine, as you look up and let your eye follow the wind rippling across the grain towards...
Buying local filets gives Flathead Lake’s native fish a fighting chance. Salish Kootenai tribal members netting non-native Lake Trout & processing them. | Lynn Donaldson | Native Fish Keepers | Polson, MT Cold water dripped back into Montana’s largest natural lake...
In late February, the town of Red Lodge, MT was under two feet of snow and experiencing yet another wave of sub-zero temperatures—one more storm in what had so far been a long winter. Chia and Ivan Thrane, the owners of Healthy Meadows, a family ranch in the hills...
During one of the hottest weeks of summer, we visited Katie and Larry Nesky of Awesome Herbs at their home in the Flathead Valley. On a bountiful spread of sloping pasture and lush gardens in St. Ignatius, their farm produces herbal teas and culinary herbs. They...
It was 7 below zero in Poplar, MT and Heather Snell was looking through seed catalogues for the upcoming growing season. “It’s time for a lot of planning,” she said with a chuckle. Snell is a gardener at the Tribal Community Services Department community garden on the...
