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Producer Guy Hand visits a small-scale farmer who gave up a tenured university professorship in the wake of September 11th to grow local, organic f...
Bought by KUOW, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KISU
- Added: Dec 24, 2011
- Length: 00:04:00
- Purchases: 4
The wheat industry traditionally focuses on international markets, but a group of Northwest wheat farmers are trying something new: growing and mil...
Bought by KISU and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2011
- Length: 00:04:00
- Purchases: 2
Honey bees help pollinate 1 in every 3 bites we eat. But they’re fighting to survive, in a world filled with pesticides and parasites. We’ll learn ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 16, 2011
- Length: 00:29:00
- Purchases: 1
After Keith Lea became an engineer at Google, he dove head-first into a sustainable lifestyle. But one gut-wrenching event made him step back and r...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Aug 21, 2011
- Length: 00:05:00
- Purchases: 1
When Jeff Emerson started buying cattle in the early 1990's he was paying as much as $5,000 dollars a head when other farmers were only spending a ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 00:03:38
Bob Dole, Abraham Lincoln, John Deere and … Willie Nelson have something new in common. Nelson, the famed country singer, is being inducted into th...
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 00:05:40
Global warming? More like global weirding.
Historic floods and drought conditions are happening at the same time, setting this up to be a rough ye...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 00:03:27
- Purchases: 1
Spring has arrived and, unfortunately for Vicki, so have the spring peepers. This leads, of course, to long, sleepless nights listening to their ra...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 00:06:09
A rare interview with the American man of letters, advocate of sustainability and local agriculture, economic critic, and farmer Wendell Berry. Gre...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Feb 15, 2011
- Length: 00:58:12
- Purchases: 1
Vicki Biggs-Anderson shares her views on life inspired by happenings on her rural Minnesota homestead where she keeps busy tending to her many anim...
- Added: Sep 06, 2010
- Length: 00:04:43
Farmers in California's central valley are getting a sneak preview of what much of the country, and the world, can expect to see in the next few de...
- Added: Aug 10, 2010
- Length: 00:07:52
We go to California, America’s leading producer of fruits, vegetables, and dairy, to see some examples of how the nation’s agricultural industry is...
Bought by WSKG, KZYX, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 10, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
- Purchases: 3
Vicki Biggs-Anderson shares her views on life inspired by happenings on her rural Minnesota homestead where she keeps busy tending to her many anim...
- Added: Jul 26, 2010
- Length: 00:05:00
Aging farmers, a threatened food system & desire for good food are driving a new wave of local growing. Severine Fleming of Greenhorns talks young ...
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 00:53:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 23, 2010
- Length: 00:03:20
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Feb 11, 2010
- Length: 00:57:30
- Purchases: 1
John Yanga is a refugee from Sudan. He's trying to start a family farm in Maine, where he and his family of nine settled.
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 00:06:58
Will Bonsall of Industry, Maine has spent decades working to prevent further loss of food crop diversity.
Bought by Prairie Public, KRUA, Vocalo.org, KVNF, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 00:06:37
- Purchases: 5
An agricultural renaissance has taken root among the Taos Pueblo people in New Mexico. Sustainable agriculture is returning, after years of unheal...
- Added: Nov 13, 2009
- Length: 00:29:00
We go to Huron, California--a tiny farming community dubbed the' lettuce capital' of the U.S. This rural region in the fertile, sun-baked Central ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 00:15:56
- Purchases: 2
The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also ex...
- Added: Nov 03, 2009
- Length: 00:29:00
Reformed criminals convert a garbage dump into a lush organic farm in Africa's largest slum, Kibera in Nairobi. Podcast created on site by Joshua ...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 00:05:04
- Purchases: 1
Lydia Ratcliff is a survivor. She's farmed her 90 acre plot of land in Andover Vermont for 43 years, and though she's now come down with chronic ob...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2009
- Length: 00:09:09
- Purchases: 1
Let's talk about locally produced food--you've never had milk like this. In the village of Kaskikot, Nepal, Aamaa shows reporter Laura Spero how t...
- Added: Aug 27, 2009
- Length: 00:04:42
- Purchases: 3
From "Drying Up," June 26, 2009. War News Radio reports on the severe drought that's taking water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq.
- Added: Jun 26, 2009
- Length: 00:08:02
