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16 Nov. 2020

On this episode of Field Days, sixth-generation Stillwater County rancher Jake Miller and his wife Celeste try to deal with four thousand pounds of beef they picked up from Cody earlier in the week.

The mission of the Red Lodge Clay Center is to support artists, the creative process and to provide a place for professionally minded ceramic artists to create new work. For the general public, the Center hosts visiting artist workshops, lectures, demonstrations, gallery exhibitions, and educational programming. Throughout the years, the Center has emphasized the importance of art and artmaking in everyday lives.

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.