What if you were told that, globally, 1.3 billion tons of gold is thrown out and buried deep in the earth each year, never to be recovered? You might think, “Why is that happening? Why would we allow such a valuable resource to be wasted? What can we do to...
Courtesy of Cultivating Connections Montana | Hamilton Bob Thaden, owner of Tongue River Winery in Miles City, Montana, guides a woman as she uses bright orange clippers to cut robust bunches of grapes from vines strung up on wire fences. The woman isn’t an employee...
Missoula Nonprofit Facilitates Space to Grow in a New Country Athena Photography | Meadow Hill Garden | Missoula As the sun dips below the mountains, a woman slips off her shoes and kneels barefoot in the dirt. Despite having spent her day caring for others, she now...
Ivan & Chia Thrane Awarded Jane Kile Memorial Scholarship In late February, Red Lodge, MT was under two feet of snow and experiencing yet another wave of sub-zero temperatures. Chia and Ivan Thrane, the owners of Healthy Meadows, a family ranch in the hills above...
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...
Stomachs filled with local food, lungs filled with fresh country air, eyes filled with the peaks of the Mission Mountain Range; Participants in the 2023 Mission Mountain Pedal to Plate will get to experience all this and more – some of the best Montana has to offer....