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On this episode of Field Days, host Sarah Brown checks out Western Bee Supplies in Polson, to see where Todd Larson buys the wooden hives and frames that support his commercial beekeeping business.

Hill County sits right in the middle of what we call the Hi-Line, the long stretch of small towns that are sprinkled along Highway 2 from Glacier Park to North Dakota. Like most of the towns along the Hi-Line, Havre came to be because of the railroad, and because the only passenger line in Montana still runs along the Hi-Line, the railroad remains a viable source of jobs in Hill County. But my guests this month, both of whom left Havre for a time before returning, also give us a glimpse of some of the more surprising activities Havre has to offer.

On this episode of Field Days, commercial beekeeper Todd Larson's son Ben, a longtime employee, harvests honey from hives just west of Laurel.

Another summer of COVID precautions prevented Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, Montana from opening for a season of classical music concerts and sculpture tours. However, the Art Center did decide to take reservations for hiking and biking. The entire 2021 summer season sold out within a couple of days of being announced. (Hiking and bicycling tours are free of charge but require advance reservations.)

On this episode of Field Days, Yellowstone County commercial beekeeper Todd Larson adds extra boxes to his hives to prepare for a honey crop.

Broadwater County is one of many counties in Montana that came into being because of the railroad. And in fact, the county seat, Townsend, is named after Alma Townsend, the wife of the president of the Northern Pacific at the time it came through Montana. But the railroad is long gone from Townsend, so it relies heavily on agriculture to stay relevant.

What happens when members of an American religion, one built in the nineteenth century on personal prophecy and land proprietorship, assert possession over public land with guns and a certainty that God wants them to go to war? A new book by Betsy Gaines Quammen, American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West, explores an incendiary land-use war launched from Bunkerville, Nevada, by a man named Cliven Bundy and his large Mormon family.

20 September 2021

On this episode of Field Days, Extension Agents Callie Cooley from Yellowstone County and Nikki Bailey from Carbon County team up to teach elementary school students about crops at the Northern International Livestock Exposition, the NILE.

In Livingston, Farm to School is helping to feed the children, but the program is also teaching the children where food comes from and how food grows to introducing them to new flavors and healthier ways to eat.