Gardening

The "2nd Annual Bluegrass in the Park" will be kicking off the 28th Lewis & Clark Festival, Friday night, June 16th, at Gibson Park down in Great Falls. TWO bands will be featured this year, Laney Lou & the Bird Dogs from Bozeman will be the opening band with the HEADLINER coming all the way from Nashville? I'm ja...

Hats off & a "Tip of R Towers" to the dedicated volunteers who plant AND care for all the planters & flowers containers that line Roosevelt Highway, Oilfield Avenue, Main Street & Central Avenue. No doubt about it...these BEAUTIFUL flowers & shrubs brighten our Shelby roadways & welcome visitors & residents alike. NOW, there are several ...

Sage advise for sure & THIS weekend, The RECC's program will be having their Annual Garden Plant Sale! TONS of cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, cabbage, cauliflower & other plants will be ON SALE & available out in front of our Shelby High School. The hours ...

I'll be up at my usual Tuesday night hangout tonight, the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. We'll be reading MORE Montana History as we learn about the TRAGIC Yellowstone earthquake. We're about a quarter way into the book, "The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake" by Larry Morris, & in my opinion, it's one of the most frightening books we're read. I'...

Why not! Parisian & Southern trained chef & Georgia's OFFICIAL culinary explorer, Chef Jennifer Hill Booker, is out with a real delight to read, cook from, & gaze at with her coffee table presentation of a big beautiful book that will know your socks off! It's "Dinn...

It's TUESDAY & today is Valier Clean Up Day. Bring your brooms, shovels & an ambitious attitude & meet at Main Street Park in Valier at 1 o'clock SHARP this afternoon. Spring's arrived in our Golden Triangle & our weather will be PERFECT this afternoon with temperatures in the 70's. As I like to s...

How does YOUR garden grow? Just ask Peggy Zimmerman in Phillipsburg! Here comes an invitation from Diana Raymond. Diana's the President of our Toole County Garden Club, & they're having a SPECIAL DVD presentation of "The Most Challenging of Garden's" this evening (Monday.) T...

You can "Bank" on this banquet being a good one! The Conrad FFA Banquet is scheduled for THIS Monday night, & if it's anything like their last one, it should prove to be SPECTACULAR! The Conrad FFA Banquet will get underway at 6:30 SHARP Monday evening down at the Conrad High School Commons. Co...

Talk about a regular "Day in the shade!" There'll be a Tree & Lawn Care Workshop THIS Monday over at the Glacier County Courthouse Annex in Cut Bank &Toby Day will be "Saving the day." Toby's the MSU Extension Horticulture Specialist, & he'll be covering the hard fundamentals like tree & management, tree pruning, lawn care management, watering, fertilization &am

There's going to be a Planning Meeting today (Thursday) for the Rocky Mountain Front Farmers Market down in Choteau today. Today's meeting's scheduled for High Noon in the "Back Room" of John Henry's Restaurant in Choteau. I've always believed that "Back Room" meetings are the best kind because you can really get the "Story-Behind-The-Story...

We hope so anyway. How DOES your garden grow? "Johnny 2 the recue" & "Just in time," there's going to be a Toole County Garden Meeting tonight (Monday!) This evening "Gardening Get Together" will be at 334 12th Avenue South here in Shelby from 6 to 7 o'clock. Pl...

The Blackfeet will be holding a Community Meeting tomorrow (Thursday) night in an effort to share information on the Water Compact AND Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement. Thursday's evening's "Water Meeting" will start promptly at 6 o'clock at the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Conference Room over in Browning...