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Marc Beaudin is a poet, theater artist, naturalist, book-seller, and self-described “Ulysses-junkie, jazz-head, social anarchist, and vagabondaoist,” who currently resides in Livingston. He is the author of two books of poetry, Life List: Poems released in 2020, and the collection The Moon Cracks Open as well as several poetry chapbooks and plays, the novel A Handful of Dust and the hiking memoir, Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals.

On this episode of Field Days, Nathan Eggebrecht of Crazy Peak Brewing Company in Big Timber brews a batch of beer for High Plains Brewing using honey from Larson Apiaries.

Richland County has gotten more attention in the past ten years than perhaps any other county in Montana due to the Bakken Oil Boom, which brought thousands of people into our state looking for jobs or other opportunities to capitalize on a sudden surge in production in Western North Dakota and Northeastern Montana. The influx of new Montanans brought with it the usual challenges of a boom-and-bust economy as Richland County had to find ways to bolster its infrastructure and give long-time residents a reason to stay as prices and crime rates escalated in the county.

19 July 2021

On this episode of Field Days, a new season debuts, following the day-to-day life of two agricultural extension agents, Callie Cooley in Yellowstone County and Nikki Bailey in Carbon County.

Robert K. Elder is the author of 15 books; including The Best Films You’ve Never Seen, Conversations with Ken Kesey, and The Mixtape of my Life. His work has appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, The Boston Globe, and The Paris Review. He is the chief digital officer for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the founder of Odd Hours Media. Originally from Billings, Robert now lives and writes in Chicago.

"I'm just a guitarist trying to make a living in Billings, Montana,” states a very modest musician, Alex Nauman. If you’d ask any musician in the state however, Alex Nauman is considered one of the finest and most versatile guitarists in Montana and Wyoming.Alex is a regular player throughout the Rocky Mountain Gig circuit and a member of a long list of eclectic music groups including his own Alex Nauman Trio. He plays everything from straight-ahead Jazz, Bop, Funk, R&B, Soul, Rock, Hip-Hop, Big-Band Swing, Acoustic Bluegrass, Avant Garde Experimental music, and even a little country. Nauman is the founder of the Big Sky Gypsy Jazz Festival and lead guitarist for the Rimrock Hot Club.

On this episode of Field Days, Montana’s state entomologist, Alyssa Piccolomini, inspects commercial bee hives near Helena.

Sean Lynch is owner of the Pub Station, a live music venue and events center in downtown Billings, co-owned with wife Ann Kosempa. The venue, situated in a renovated Greyhound Bus Station, opened in November 2014. Since then, they’ve brought thousands of bands into Billings, from country to rock, big names to no names. In 2017 expanded the venue to two stages with a capacity of 800 people.Lynch estimates the venue brought upwards of $24 million annually into the Billings economy and attracted more than 55,000 people to downtown for live music or private events.

On this episode of Field Days, Yellowstone County commercial beekeeper Todd Larson fills a tank with liquid sugar to feed the bees he’s building back up to take home to Montana.