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The invasive, beetle-like Emerald Ash Borer was recently discovered in Fargo. This week, we'll zoom out and talk about what this means for North Dakota and its 90 million ash trees.

Fresh off Fargo Hotdish Festival wins, Rosewild GM Justin Clark shares what sets the kitchen apart and describes how Eat Local, Give Local helps provide meals for kids in need.

Episode 59 features Midwest folk musician David Huckfelt, Kentucky singer-songwriter Brit Taylor, London musician Alex Francis, rural North Dakota folk duo Tom and Radie, and Jamestown duo Spiritwood Homesteaders. Plus, host Tom Brosseau shares a song.

While many immigrants settled in the East, the Homestead Act enticed a large percentage to the Great Plains, an unfamiliar land that had until then been under tribal control. The land they were able to claim was many times larger than the small farms they had in their home countries. Immigrants were crucial to the settlement of the Great Plains in general, and North Dakota in particular. In 1870, thirty-four percent of the settlers in Dakota Territory were foreign-born. By 1915, nearly eighty percent of North Dakotans were either immigrants or the children of immigrants.

During winter cold spells, concerns are often voiced on how the animals manage to make it through the season. Of course, there is variation in how well-adapted animals are to winter. It is similar with plants, which is exemplified by the development of plant hardiness zones. But how about plant seeds during the winter months? There is probably a lot more going there than most people would think.

In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll listen to Kade Ferris, enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa, in part two of "What Stories Teach Us."

From oilfield wastewater and lithium policy missteps to redefining what a “home theater” really is, Main Street explores energy innovation, regulation, and smart tech choices.

How do we place a value on the things we keep and pass down? Objects can be timeless and multi-generational or they can be a burden to bear. Jack Russell Weinstein and his guest, Wellesley philosophy professor Erich Hatala Matthes explore the question, why should we save for posterity?

Peshawbestown, Michigan, is named for an Ottawa chief. On this date in 1797, he came to the Red River fur trade with his relative Net-no-kwa and her adoptive son, John Tanner. Net-no-kwa had rescued Tanner from the Shawnee, who abducted him in Kentucky at age nine.

Do your ever wonder what the winter landscape looked like on the prairie long ago when there were no farmsteads, transmission lines, and the few trees that were present were largely restricted to the floodplains of major rivers? There are some interesting written descriptions of that landscape.