Two years after North & Nest took off, edition #9 has officially landed, introducing the exquisitely layered encaustic work of Grand Forks, ND, artist and art educator Karena Ness on the cover. Readers will travel through fields and flight, savoring skyline views from JLG Architects’ stunning 7th-floor workspace in downtown Fargo’s RDO Tower. While downtown, we stir up the past, inviting readers back to the table of Fargo’s first Nordic-Jewish deli with the launch of BernBaum’s cookbook hosted by Olive & Rust. We also head south for a little slice of heaven at The BLOC, above the new Duane’s House of Pizza and Pop’s Soda Shack — Great States Development’s rebuild of an entire city block, including the architectural design of T.L. Stroh and interior design by Trever Hill Design. Heading into the horizon, we tour Rivers Edge in Horace, ND, where we doubled down with Dabbert Custom Homes' newest model homes before taking a road trip to Casselton, ND, where Lindsey Grace Interiors invited us inside an 11,600 SF h