Fall Sky
Shorter days and longer nights are an invitation to stargaze. Commentator Jim Lattis tells us what’s overhead right now.
End of Season in the Garden
It’s officially fall and with the changing leaves and warm days and cool nights comes the bittersweet end to the ...
Open Water Swimming
The open water has attracted swimmers for ages. Where there’s a lake, river, channel, ocean, or bay, there’s likely a ...
American Water Spaniel
Every avid hunter needs a good dog to help find and retrieve game. Commentator Bob Willging tells us about a ...
River Rat
Today we meet Kenny Salwey, one of the last of Wisconsin’s “river rats” — people who once made their lives ...
Heirloom Tomatoes
Heirloom tomatoes are a summer treat some people wait for all year. Commentator Brett Laidlaw tells us why.
Turing Test
Saturday, June 23rd, marks the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth the father of modern computer science. He also created ...
Trout Season
Father’s Day is this weekend. Writer Susan Lampert Smith reminisces about her father and a 65 year tradition marking the ...
Transit of Venus
Next week, we’ll be able to see one of the rarest of astronomical phenomena a transit of Venus. It’s the ...
FIBS
Memorial Day signals the start of the summer travel season. Among those taking to the Wisconsin roads will be visitors ...
Coyotes
Coyotes can be found or at least heard in every county in Wisconsin. Writer Jill Sisson Quinn sometimes hears them ...
Mother’s Day at Horicon Marsh
Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend. Every year, poet Kim Blaeser and her family celebrate by spending a day ...
Foraging For Watercress In Wisconsin’s Driftless Region
Carpets of watercress cover many Wisconsin streams and springs in the spring. The tender green leaves are a bright and ...
Birdsongs
The birds began their Spring chorus early this year… and Adam Hirsch has been trying to figure out who’s who. ...
Earth Day – Plants
Sunday is Earth Day, a day for appreciating and thinking about our natural environment. Writer Jill Sisson Quinn brought a ...