As the summer draws to an end, many here in Minnesota will be making a trip to the State Fair, and many others will have already attended a county fair. County and state fairs offer a wide variety of food, games, and entertainment, but they’re also a wonderful learning environment. …
In Minnesota, there are several different organizations that work together to manage and protect our water resources. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Pollution Control Agency (PCA) are two organizations that many of us are familiar with. But have you heard of watershed districts (WD) or watershed management …
I’ve loved local radio since I was a kid listening to the “goings-on” in my tiny town. As an adult I carried that interest to New Orleans where the community radio station started in the storeroom above Tipitina’s music stage. They’d drop a mic down through a hole for broadcast. …
My five year old son and I have enjoyed gardening together since he was little. We created our first garden in our front yard (where the sunlight was best), and it turned out to be the best place ever! We checked every morning when we went outside to play and …
In our last blog entry, our Web & Social Media Manager David wrote about wind energy, which got me thinking about another popular form of renewable energy- solar. In a way, solar is the most basic form of energy, since the plant life on earth is fueled by the sun, …
