If you ask North Dakota Living Editor Cally Peterson, there are a few redeeming qualities of January in North Dakota: basketball and soup
I am a “woman of words.” I’ve made a career writing them and speaking them. But I had a great lesson imprinted on me some years ago.
In the summer of 1968, I was working in the farm department of KXJB-TV in Fargo.
Beyond supporting North Dakota’s economy and feeding the world, farming and ranching is a lifestyle – and livelihood.
I don’t remember ever watching my mother, grandmothers or great-grandmothers (how lucky am I to have memories of each!) use pressure cookers.
In the upper Dakota, we are accustomed to rapidly changing weather conditions.
The story of a professional chef in New York City moving to small-town North Dakota for love seems the perfect plot for a Hallmark Christmas movie.
As Christmas lights twinkle across the North Dakota landscape, the state’s electric cooperatives are radiating holiday cheer in their local communi

