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Lifestyle

Garden Guru

It's time to put gardens to bed. Deb Brown has tips for getting your yard ready for the next growing season.

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Thanksgiving Pie

Anne Dimock's recipe for Thanksgiving Pie.

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The seven deadly sins of pie-making

Ann Dimock's Seven Deadly Sins of Pie-Making.

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Recipe for Straight-Up Rhubarb Pie

Straight-Up Rhubarb Pie.

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Recipe for Apple Dumpling Pie

Anne Dimock's recipe for Apple Dumpling Pie.

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A chat with the pie lady

Anne Dimock is a pie lover. She grew up making apple pies at her mother's elbow, and now bakes from her home in Afton, Minnesota. Dimock has written a book called "Humble Pie: Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust."

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Making art with the feather lady

It's pheasant season in the upper Midwest, and that brings hunters to the prairies in search of the ring-necked bird. But for one Minnesota woman known as the feather lady, pheasant season brings something very different.

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Musicland hopes "Graze"-ing customers will revive music sales

Few businesses have had a harder time in recent years than the music store, because of competition from online shopping, music download sites, and CD sales at big stores like Wal-Mart. One of the nation's biggest chains, Minneapolis-based Sam Goody, hopes to change its fortunes by encouraging people to just...hang out.

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That's no bear -- that's a pig!

Wisconsin has declared war on wild pigs. Few believed pigs could survive in the wilds of northern Wisconsin. But a herd of pigs is thriving in the woods and wilds near Lake Superior, and that worries the people living in the area.

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Exploring Europe and beyond

Midmorning host Kerri Miller talks with travel expert Rick Steves about must-see destinations around the world.

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