Anne James

Sometimes leafy vegetables such as kale or unevenly cut up foods such as onions can spark when cooking in your microwave oven.  It may be from dissolved nutrients such as iron, potassium and copper absorbed while the plant grew.  It can also be cause by uneven cooking when the small pieces…

Today's MSU Extension Minute celebrates National Pretzel Day.
MSU Extension Pondera County Agent Wndy Wedum invites you to explore these two links for more information.
Link to Pretzel history: https://www.history.com/news/the-pretzel-a-twisted-history

If non-monthly expenses are burning through your budget, use this MontGuide for tips to set aside money before it is needed.  Click the link to open a PDF of the Schedule of Non-Monthly Family Living Expenses MontGuide from MSU Extension:

On today's MSU Extension Minute, Pondera County Agent Wendy Wedum mentioned several resources available through MSU Extension to help deal with stress and other things that are related to agriculture, natural resources, family, financial planning and more:
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Brand-new edition includes how to find the perfect (plant) partner, growing food in teeny-tiny containers, plants that stand up to Mother Nature, living with 1,600 houseplants, the ancient Japanese art of kusamono, and more!
 
According to the latest edition of the Garden Guide, the “joy of gardening…

BOZEMAN – The 44th annual American Indian Council Powwow at Montana State University will be held March 29-30 at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. The powwow is free and open to all. This year’s powwow will be will be dedicated to missing and murdered indigenous women and girls...

BOZEMAN — A new ranching systems degree that is expected to help sustain the agricultural heritage of the northern Great Plains and Intermountain West will be offered at Montana State University beginning this fall as part of a new umbrella program...

MISSOULA – In a recent study, University of Montana researchers explored the ways forest succession and climate variability interacted and influenced fires in Alaska’s boreal forests over the past four centuries – from 1550 to 2015.
“We reconstructed fire activity ov…

MISSOULA – The U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $10 million to establish a National Center for Rural School Mental Health. Dr. Ryan Tolleson Knee, a University of Montana social work professor, will co-direct the new center...

BOZEMAN — It could be the plot of an espionage-filled, war-time thriller, or the blow-by-blow of sparring judo masters. But instead it's a true story of molecular warfare between microbes, beginning when a virus latches into a bacterium and injects its DNA, the first step toward…

BOZEMAN — A new study conducted by Montana State University professors shows that students who graduate from high school in states that make financial education a graduation requirement make better decisions about how to pay for college...

MISSOULA – New University of Montana research suggests climate change makes it increasingly difficult for tree seedlings to regenerate following wildfires in low-elevation forests, which could contribute to abrupt forest loss.
The study, “Wildfires and Climate Change Push Low-elevation Forests Across…