Driftless Stories

Here’s what’s happening in the Summer 2017 Inspire(d): Summer Fun List! Local Food Directory • CSA: Hooray! • Crystal Creek Magic • Sum of Your Biz: Impact…

Crystal Creek Magic A Minnesota couple launches a Citizen-Artist Residency program in their magical Houston, Minnesota, cabin in hopes of connecting artists and residents to…

  Even though Decorah native Anna Bolz lives in New York City, a metropolis brimming with 8.5 million people, her heart is deeply rooted in…

Female Mountain Bikers Rule! By Aryn Henning Nichols Looking down at your mud-covered mountain bike tires, you wipe the sweat from your face, take a drink,…

Here’s what’s happening in the Spring 2017 Inspire(d): Female Mountain Bikers (Rule) • Hannah Breckbill / Farmer • Anna Bolz / Chef • Lindy Weilgart /…

Seed Starting: Get your plants growing like a pro By Kristine Jepsen • Photos courtesy River Root Farm It begins mid-winter, when the seed catalogs start…

Winter is a wonderful time to cozy in and think about making life better. So we’re excited to bring you the new Winter 2016-2017 Inspire(d) Magazine,…

Here at Inspire(d) we are big fans of print media (right?)! When we heard about 12 year old St. Ben’s student Jenna Hartz publishing her…

By Aryn Henning Nichols Music and family. These are the threads that tie Rosanne Cash’s life together. Not just because her father was the iconic…

John Beard If anyone can attest to the power of a single vote, it’s Decorah-based welder John Beard. Four years ago, Beard, who currently sits…

Chuck Gipp It makes sense that current Iowa DNR director Chuck Gipp thought he “knew a lot of people” when, in 1990, he declared his…

Alicia Leinberger The words – uttered on public radio the fall of 2015 – stopped Alicia Leinberger in her tracks. They also changed the trajectory…