Bob Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough | The Montana Gardener’s Companion
An Insider’s Guide to Gardening under the Big Sky
Two avid gardeners channel a combined seven decades of plant-growing expertise into this loamy book, which tackles the challenges of cultivating trees, flowers and vegetables in Montana's notoriously unpredictable climate and sundry soil types.
The Montana Gardener's Companion begins with "Firm Foundations," a look at the state's soil types, climate conditions and water needs. From there, the authors launch into "Green Things," a section devoted to growing lawns, vegetables, fruit, annual and perennial flowers, trees, shrubs and native plants.
Finally, they offers solutions for garden pests and other problems, and list online and print resources, plus contact information for soil surveys and testing laboratories and extension offices throughout the state.
Bob Gough is a horticulture professor at Montana State University and the author of nine gardening books, several magazine articles and 500 extension service publications. His wife, Cheryl Moore-Gough, is the MSU Extension state horticulturist and coordinates the Master Gardener Program. Both make regular appearances on the… Read more
National Folk Fest adds more performers
The National Folk Festival - described as a "moveable feast of deeply traditional folk arts" - has landed beneath the Big Sky July 11-13, when it settles in for a three-year stay in Butte. Seven stages, ranging in size from a 10,000-seat open-air amphitheater to a small, acoustic-style venue, offer continuous performances throughout the three-day event. Read more
Show celebrates the life and work of Gennie DeWeese
A celebration of the life and work of the late artist Gennie DeWeese was held June 20-21 at the Buck/Butterfield Ranch in Bozeman. More than 200 works of art were on display, spanning more than 40 years of the artist's life. Read more
Russell Auction sets all new records
The 40th annual C.M. Russell Auction, held March 14-15 in Great Falls, eclipsed last year's record $2.4 million weekend with sales of $2,972,400. Highlights of this year's auction included a single-night auction record of $2,052,750 on Saturday night, smashing last year's $1.46 million record. Read more
New DVD offers opportunity to study with Peter Voulkos
With a cigarette dangling from his lips, Peter Voulkos slams balls of clay into a lump, then wedges the 30-pound mass, muscles straining as he rocks and rolls it into a spiral form. Student vassals carry it to the wheel. His clothes are smeared with mud; his fingers, oozing slip, shape and pull, shape and pull; the wheel spins. It's wet, dripping water while Voulkos uses a paddle and then a knife, mumbling comments to students, making jokes. Read more
Susan Wicklund with Alan Kesselheim | This Common Secret
My Journey as an Abortion Doctor, Susan Wicklund, a physician who has worked in the field of women's reproductive health for more than 20 years, knows first-hand the trauma of a difficult abortion, and also, as a doctor, how safe, legal abortions can be "about life: quality of life for infants, children, and adults. Everywhere and in every sense of the word. Life, not death." Read more
Jennifer Graf Groneberg | Road Map to Holland
Jennifer Groneberg, reeling from the discovery that one of her premature twins has an extra 21st chromosome, finds comfort in the words of another mother, who says having a child with Down syndrome is "like planning a trip to Italy, only to get off the plane and discover you're actually in Holland." Groneberg's warm, fiercely honest book tells how she finds a road map for this country she had never planned to visit. Read more