Gardening

Best make that 15 BILLION bottles of beer because National Agriculture Day is Thursday, March 14th. According to the Montana Grain Growers Association, our Montana farmers grow enough barley to brew over 15 BILLION bottles of the amber brew...

MAN! While our "people population" of Montana is just over a million, there's some 2.5 MILLION cattle in the Treasure State. In fact, our friends & neighbors down in Beaverhead County have the #5 beef producing county in the whole United States! I ...

You'll have a better handle on this deal by attending the Master Gardener classes over in Chester. The Master Gardener Level 1 classes begin on Wednesday, February 13th. Registration is REQUIRED & DUE by next Monday, the 4th. If I had the time, I'd probably sign up myself...t...

Our Toole County Combined Fund Drive is is now underway, & it's really a GOOD thing! Rather than multiple organizations soliciting donations from you, our Toole County Fund Drives COMBINES efforts to seek funding for some 20 very worthwhile organizations. Fu...

MAN! That's such a great headline for my Puffman Blog, I probably wouldn't have to add anything else down here! (insert downward arrow here)   That said, it WILL be 1910 up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby this evening (Tuesday.) I'...

The time is near for the infamous Cut Bank Festival of Trees! And the 2018 Cut Bank "FESTIVE" Festival of the Trees is slated for tomorrow (Saturday.) Here's hoping you can stop by the Cut Bank Elks Club sometime tomorrow to check out all the beautiful trees...

It sounds like a law firm with a real sense of humor, but no worries...it's simply the title of the book that will be up for grabs tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman Musical Trivia. Dr. Tim Warren's the author of "Feet, Ford & Fun; How to Fail Your Way to Fitness." T...

This Sunday, the Whitlash Community Presbyterian Church Fall Bazaar & Dinner's going to be a WINNER! All the food, frivolity & FUN is going to be going full tilt from 11 o'clock until 3 in the afternoon. It's not far to Whitlash, you can get there in a flash. Hope t...

The Guardian Angel Catholic Church in Power is putting on their SPECIAL Fall Dinner THIS Sunday, & you're all invited to come down & chow down. They'll be pushing out of the platters from noon until 3 on Sunday afternoon, & you KNOW this dinner is going to be another WINNER! Call me Je...

I'll be up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby this evening (Tuesday) to read & share more Montana History. I'm thinking that we'll FINALLY conclude a book it seems like we've been reading since the Korean War. It's a LONG saga for sure but it's a GOOD one! Th...

The Rocky Mountain Farmers' Market isn't done having fun for the season...YET! They'll be going full tilt tomorrow (Saturday) down in Choteau. The "market's" set up in the Visitors Center parking lot, & you can save a LOT! Hope to see you bright & early in the morn at the Rocky Mountain Front Farmers' Market in Choteau....

Our Shelby Garden Club's "Pumpkin Patch" is coming up THIS Sunday, & this afternoon (Wednesday,) Sue Smith will be stopping by the Puffman Show at 2:30, to fill us in on all the FUN & all around good times at the "Pumpkin Patch." I'll be sure & ask Sue if she thinks the "Great Pumpkin" from Peanuts will be making an appearance on Sunday. Sue Smith,... Read