Digital subscriptions: A new way to read Dakotafire
You’ll now find a new way to read Dakotafire’s magazine stories: On any digital device you choose, whether computer, tablet or smart phone.
SDSU Extension launches Backyard Biodiversity in South Dakota for 2014
SDSU Extension launches Backyard Biodiversity in South Dakota for 2014 this month.
FiredUp: Looking for a good gallon of milk
Picket Fence Creamery in Woodward, Iowa, has figured out how to do local dairy right. Neighbors, someone take the model and bring it to the Dakotas.
South Dakota Community of the Year and Excellence in Economic Development awards seek nominations
Economic development is a crucial part of sustaining our rural communities. Communities and volunteers are both needed to work together to keep the local economy vibrant and growing.
FiredUp: Understanding the complicated system of GMOs will require many conversations
On a topic such as genetically modified organisms, with vast interconnections into so many locations and areas of study, it’s impossible for any one person to see the whole picture. More voices—including some rural ones—can help us get better information and make better decisions.
FiredUp: It’s a new year. Let’s edit our Dakota story.
The stories we tell ourselves are based in reality—but they are not reality. They are one interpretation of events, one way to look at what has happened to us and who we are. It’s not about “fact” versus “fiction”—facts themselves have little power over us. What shapes our lives are the stories we tell about those facts.
FiredUp: My view of the transmission line
I was walking along a gravel road near my home recently, thinking about a phone call I had received the evening before. A representative for a power company had asked if my sister and I had thought more about the…
FiredUp: Wearing many hats is the country way
Just when I think the urban-rural divide isn’t as wide as it once was—the UPS truck can deliver Amazon packages to skyscrapers or machine sheds, and we all have way too many channels on TV—I see something that points out…
FiredUp: Beauty is part of the structure of building to last
“If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless. This building is boarded up because nobody has a use for it. Nobody has a use for it because nobody wants to be in it. And nobody…
FiredUp: Should the future of journalism include advocacy?
The recent conversation between Bill Keller and Glenn Greenwald on the standards that journalists should live by is relevant to the work that we do at Dakotafire.