Morning – Features

Thinking Green: Composite Wood

"Wood"-n't you rather be kind to the environment?

When it comes to thinking green, you can’t go wrong with making sure healthy trees stay standing. Even when it comes to your home construction projects. Danny Lipford shows us why composite wood can make it easier to go green this morning. Categories: Morning – Features

Thinking Green: Energy Costs

Spend your energy outside having fun instead.

We’ve had some pretty big ups and downs in temperatures this last week. Time to make sure your energy use around the house isn’t wasting heat or money. Here’s Danny Lipford to help us with some energy-saving tips. Categories: Morning – Features

Melinda’s Garden: Herbs

Expand your garden's flavor, fragrance and beauty with these lesser-used herbs

  Expand your garden’s flavor, fragrance and beauty with these lesser-used herbs. Enjoy the attractive cucumber-flavored leaves of salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) in salads, on sandwiches, and in dips. Or add a refreshing hint of cucumber to lemonade and sparkling water. Mexican oregano (Lippia graveolens) has a similar flavor that is stronger, less bitter and less minty than Greek oregano….

Melinda’s Garden Moment: A Pop Of Color With Coleus

We're beginning this season of Melinda's Garden Moments with a burst of color you can put in your garden.

  The colorful and uniquely shaped leaves of coleus have made it a favorite of gardeners for several centuries. But recent introduction have helped move it out of containers and the shade and into sunny borders. Here at Boerner Botanical Gardens they created several gardens featuring a few sun loving varieties. This large oval garden features Flamethrower Habanero coleus. The…

Neighbors Band Together To Save Homes From Fire

Fire Broke Out In Gully, MN Wednesday Afternoon

GULLY, Minn. – Neighbors band together to save homes from an approaching fire in rural Polk County. The Sheriff’s Office says they responded to a fire entering the Gully city limits just before 3:00 p.m. Wednesday. Gully is about 20 miles north of Fosston. A shed and trailer burned. The Sheriff’s Office says neighbors fought the fire before firefighters got…

Thinking Green: Clotheslines

If you're thinking it's a great way to save the planet and money, you're thinking along the right lines.

There may not be much in the way of sun today, but that doesn’t change the fact that warmer weather appears to be here to stay. And soon enough, the precipitation will pass and it’ll be time to head back outside and play. Why not set up a clothesline while you’re out there? It’s a great way to save energy…

Ask Danny: Staining a Deck

Don't be a stain on the neighborhood. Keep your wood protected this spring.

It’s finally drying up out there after all that rain Sunday. But the precipitation we’ve seen since fall has probably done a number on your deck. Don’t let deck damage stain your spring and summer fun. Danny Lipford shows us how to stain a deck the right way in today’s Ask Danny. Categories: Morning – Features

Social Distancing: One Year Later

A Look At How We've Adapted And Persevered Over The Last Year

  FARGO (KVRR) – On March 17th, 2020, I started this social distancing segment. That was one year ago. It was a bewildering time full of fear and uncertainty. So some things haven’t changed much. But the way we lived our lives did change. I wanted to help share some of the ways we’ve coped. New ways to celebrate, ways…

Thinking Green: Cardboard Weed Barrier

Before you think green, think brown.

It’s sure starting to feel like spring out there, but it’s nowhere near green yet on the ground. Danny Lipford has a look at how to green up your day ahead of Mother Nature’s timeline, by using up those discarded brown cardboard boxes we’ve accumulated so many of during these months upon months of home deliveries. Here’s why he says…

Ask Danny: Bathroom Vanity Materials

Vanity, thy name is Danny.

It’s not vanity to make sure you’re choosing the best material for your bathroom vanity to be made out of. After all, you don’t just want it to look good. You want it to withstand humidity and heavy use as well as keeping its looks. Here’s Danny Lipford with his recommendations. Categories: Morning – Features