It’s the Connecting for Me
When I started this blog a few years ago, my mentor in resorting told me: "There is nothing worse than a dead blog. If you're not going to post regularly, don't do it." Now, what she meant was there is [...]
Tell us What You Think!
As the days get longer and the sun gets warmer, we're thinking: SUMMER! And planning for Summer 2021 has us doing a little tightrope-walking. We are balancing our strong need for normalcy, togetherness and fun with our other strong need [...]
The Blog that was Long Overdue
2020. Whew. What a summer. What a year. What an adventure. I have been meaning to write to you for months. I was going to write in September and tell you how deeply grateful we all are for the community [...]
The Five Minute Update from Brookside
Wondering what has kept us so busy over the last few months?
The Monarch Butterfly Nursery at Brookside
What started with one monarch caterpillar named “Bear” and a repurposed flower vase turned into a nature-loving, science-class inspiring, eco-friendly operation of hatching monarch caterpillars into monarch butterflies and letting them go into the nature that we love. We [...]
Speed Zone Ahead: “Middle Fall”
It’s a weird in-between season around here. Not exactly fall because those leaves are long gone and the only color in the trees alternates between a half-dead brown and white snow, depending on the day’s high temperature. And not exactly [...]
Minnesota’s Second Best Season
It’s with mixed emotions that we check another Minnesota summer off the list. Because summers here are SO FUN. And also because the end of summer means jumping back into the routine of school and work. And, although we know [...]
Spring is in the Air
It’s spring time at Brookside, and because we live in Northern Minnesota we know it’s going to be short. And while most Minnesotans just find this to be the price we pay to enjoy the best summers on Earth, we [...]
We Went on a Family Vacation: All You Got Was Kitchen Shears
The Wallenberg and Keller families are right in the middle of developing our family vacation traditions. Really, we’re our own target market….except for that whole NO free time in the summer. So, what do you do when summer vacations are [...]