Text and Photos by Kathleen Woodford When Melanie opens the door to her flower shop, she also opens a door to new beginnings. Melanie Ryan, along with her mother, Lauri Veseth, bought Country [...]
Courtesy of SOMT Born from love and respect for all humanity, Special Olympics Montana (SOMT) is celebrating its 50th Anniversary! “This is the time to honor a movement that has transformed [...]
Art is magic. It can transport us to a place in our memories. It can take us somewhere we’ve never been. It can show us something we love—or make us fall in love with something altogether new. [...]
By Hayley Young Nearly 20 years ago, a group now known as the American Prairie Reserve entered northcentral Montana. This organization operates under the guise of saving the ecosystem and [...]
By Hayley Young When driving through, you do not immediately see the bustling little country town that is Jordan. You must turn off the highway to find the charm that is hidden away. Main Street [...]
By Brad Reynolds Small businesses come and go. Communities evolve. Markets ebb and flow. Either local enterprises continue to grow, or they succumb to the sands of time. But—some businesses, [...]
These days, it’s not easy to get by on a little slice of heaven. Farms are consolidating. Median acreages increase year by year. Common assumption is: only the big survive. Cory McKinney stands [...]
By Kent Hanawalt Cows come in many colors—red or yellow, black or white, brown, grey, and even blue. (I’ll explain the blue a little later.) Why so many colors? Each of dozens of cattle breeds [...]
By Stacy Bronec John Lippert had only $100 in his pocket when he and his cousin hid on a railcar from Minnesota to Montana. The stowaways arrived in Carter, which was under a foot of snow, with [...]
Text by Lisa Schmidt, Photos by Eliza Jayne Photography Editor’s note: This is the second in our series about Montana’s beef industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last February, while the rest [...]
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