Arts & Culture
Nuns on the ranch: Giving beef a Heavenly flavor
Many beer aficionados are familiar with the rare breweries run by Trappist monks. The beer is highly sought after, but it’s not the only food or drink made by a religious order. Many abbeys and convents have deep roots in agriculture, combining farm work with prayer.
Just five miles south of the Colorado-Wyoming border you’ll find one of these places. Idyllic red farm buildings sit in the shadow of the main abbey, all tucked in a stony valley. At the Abbey of St. Walburga, cattle, water buffalo and llamas graze on grass under the watchful eye of Benedictine nuns.
Discover KC with Made in the Middle
Graphic designer Tad Carpenter grew up in Kansas City, and he said he can’t remember a time that felt quite like this. “I’ve lived here my entire life,” he said, “and I can’t remember the feeling I feel in the city right now. There’s an electricity happening. On a national level, people are recognizing Kansas…
Your Fellow Americans producer’s perspective: the Crouser family
Gaylene Crouser says she is 50 percent Lakota, 50 percent unknown lineage and 100 percent Indian. So much pain and trouble surrounds her identity that, when our production team at Your Fellow Americans asked her for her name, she cried. Just knowing that someone had approached her, wanting to learn about her and the way she is…
A non-traditional funding plan for a non-traditional farmer
When Kate Johnson stepped out of the car on the property in Easton, Kansas, that would become her farm, she knew she was home. After a yearlong search for the perfect land, this was it. “Even just the feeling driving up felt different than all of the other places I had seen,” she said. Johnson…
KC celebrates release of Boulevard’s Crown Town Ale
Boulevard Beer’s Crown Town Ale, which honors the Royals’ record-breaking season, was released today. Liquor stores across the metro did brisk business, some selling out well before noon. Jeremy Ragonese, Boulevard’s director of marketing, said it was important to make space in the tight brewing schedule for this ale after the Royals had such a…