Our Favorite Reads
The temperature is quickly dropping and snow will be here soon, so grab a cup of hot chocolate and curl up with a good book....
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Balsam fir: Friend or foe?
Anyone who has spent time rambling through northern Minnesota’s forests is familiar with balsam fir. The flat needles and aromatic “Christmas tree” smell of this...
Hunting with Hawks in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains
The dense tree canopy glistened from light rain, a creek burbled to my right, and the woods rang with the sound of a bell attached...
Hunters encouraged to submit spruce grouse feathers for genetics study
Spruce grouse hunters in northern Minnesota’s boreal forests can voluntarily submit samples for the final year of a genetics research project being conducted by the...
When People Think About Craft…
When we think about craft, our thoughts may drift toward pursuits that are artistic, inventive and laborious. Think of turning a tree into a basket...
Canoeing “Old Blue” Down the Whiteface River
My husband Russ and I bought a cabin last year on a lake in the Northern Wilds of Minnesota. Our escapes to the cabin provide...
Behind the Craft: Sámi Knitting
Color—that is what has lured me down this garden path of Sámi knitted items. I was already a lover of all things knitted and Nordic,...
“Hallo Dear Friend” The Layered History of a Grand Marais Postcard
On October 3, 1908, Christina Paulson Wannebo went to Johnson’s Trading Post in Grand Marais and mailed a postcard to Anna Jacobson Gibson. “Are you...