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On this episode of Field Days, Laurel farmer Carah Ronan is finally planting outside.

Bryce Andrews is a Montana-based rancher, conservationist, and author whose unique set of experiences gives him uncommon insights into our universal relationship with the American West.He is the author of three books including Down from the Mountain which won the Banff Mountain Book Competition and was a Montana Book Award Honor Title.

Born in 1935, Barbara Van Cleve has spent her life in Montana photographing the ranching life around her. The Cleve family established the Lazy K Bar Ranch in 1880 near Melville on the eastern slopes of the Crazy Mountains. Barbara’s first camera, a Brownie Box Junior, was given to her at age 11, and since then, she’s been documenting the vastness of Montana’s landscape, including its working ranchers, beloved horses, and cattle, ever since.

On this episode of Field Days, Laurel farmer Carah Ronan rallies friends to put the finishing touches on her new hoop house.

The race to complete a transcontinental railway in the late 19th century had a huge impact on early Montana, as it coincided with many other major developments in the region, such as the Homestead Act, the slaughter of the buffalo, and the influx of cattle into our state. It was also another example of how a few ambitious men benefited from our resources while those who were meant to benefit paid the price.

On this episode of Field Days, Red Lodge farmer Sara Johnson pounds posts for her new bear fence.

On this episode of Field Days, Red Lodge farmer Sara Johnson makes her first wholesale deliveries of the season.

17 July 2023

Elizabeth Guheen is chief curator and director of the Bair Family Museum in Martinsdale, Montana. The museum, which displays the collection and private residence of the Charles M. Bair family, is not in the business of acquiring art, yet they recently procured a painting by Joseph Henry Sharp titled The Young Chief that tells a very big story.

On this episode of Field Days, Carah Ronan’s new hoop house gets a gold star.