Sep 29, 2026 · 40 min · 12 segments
A long, meandering stream weaves its way around our prairie town. The Wood River has changed a lot over the years as agricultural production has come to dominate the surrounding land. Larry and Grace…
Trevor HerriotGuestDominique FerratonHostStefan MihailovichGuestLarry BeckerGuestGrace BekkerGuestAs the Wood River travels northeast, it meets up with all the little creeks that flow into it.
All of them just as windy as the Wood River, curving their way through hills, pastures, and cropland
It's kind of semi-flat and we're, I guess it would be like a floodplain, uh, right next to the creek.
Around us are trees, big old trees that kind of seem to fall down and then start growing again out of themselves.
Uh, we had a heavy frost last night, so rose hips will be perfect to pick.
We've got a steep bank behind us, um, that goes up quite high, probably close to 100 feet.
Uh, we had several horses grazing here this summer and before the horses came in, the grass was four, five, even six feet tall in some places.
I think the most spectacular, uh, marker is probably breakup in the springtime.
It's an epic couple of days seeing massive sheets of ice pile up and all the different colors and just the power of it is kind of humbling.
So sometimes we've even see it, seen it, it would be, yeah, like we'd be underwater where we are here.
And then seeing how that affects the plant growth the following year, like where the creek has run over the banks, it's amazing, uh, soil, or conditions for, for growth.
And the plants, the crops always thrive, just I think partially from the noi- uh, moisture, but also from the nutrients that come along with it.
As the Wood River travels northeast, it meets up with all the little creeks that flow into it.
All of them just as windy as the Wood River, curving their way through hills, pastures, and cropland
It's kind of semi-flat and we're, I guess it would be like a floodplain, uh, right next to the creek.
Around us are trees, big old trees that kind of seem to fall down and then start growing again out of themselves.
Uh, we had a heavy frost last night, so rose hips will be perfect to pick.
We've got a steep bank behind us, um, that goes up quite high, probably close to 100 feet.
Uh, we had several horses grazing here this summer and before the horses came in, the grass was four, five, even six feet tall in some places.
I think the most spectacular, uh, marker is probably breakup in the springtime.
It's an epic couple of days seeing massive sheets of ice pile up and all the different colors and just the power of it is kind of humbling.
So sometimes we've even see it, seen it, it would be, yeah, like we'd be underwater where we are here.
And then seeing how that affects the plant growth the following year, like where the creek has run over the banks, it's amazing, uh, soil, or conditions for, for growth.
And the plants, the crops always thrive, just I think partially from the noi- uh, moisture, but also from the nutrients that come along with it.
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