North State Public Radio

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KCHO FM 91.7 and KFPR 88.9 are non-commercial non-profit organizations which are a service of California State University, Chico. We provide listeners with a vast assortment of programs reaching a diverse listening audience. We are affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR) and Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This allows us to bring our listeners informative, educational and entertaining programs.

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202 Pieces

Conversations exploring where science and pop culture collide. Hosted by Dave Schlom with audio production by Matt Fidler.

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11 Pieces

A 5-part series deeply exploring of the California wildfire problem. Public Radio Veteran, Matt Fidler, combines on-location interviews with experts who understand wildfire the best, and NPR-style story telling to give listeners a non-political perspective on how to best approach a problem that is becoming increasingly destructive and deadly.

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282 Pieces

Essential connections exist between nature, our gardens, and our places in both. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program and podcast that explores what we mean when we garden.


Latest Pieces

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Dave gets a chance to revisit one of his favorite topics -- the twin Voyager spacecraft that began their explorations of the outer solar system and...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Still in the Dog Days of Summer - the heat it hot, the days are long, and garden maintenance in the form of watering, weeding, and perhaps mowing a...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave visits with grant winners from a NASA program designed to boost and accelerate science and engineering programs with potential space applicati...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In our ongoing exploration of where gardeners are and what they are doing in our world right now, we head pretty far north on Cultivating Place thi...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave is joined once again by special co host Kendall Hall, astronomer and physics professor at California State University Chico as we dive into th...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Dee O'Hara
As part of our ongoing Apollo@50 series, Dave visits with Dee O'Hara, the "nurse to the astronauts." Hired by NASA in November 1959, Dee was a pivo...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Jenny Jones & Jen Toy at a Test Plot
This week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with Jenny Jones and Jen Toy. They are gardeners, landscape architects, and caring humans who ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: The Terremoto Team, image courtesy of David Godshall
David Godshall is a landscape architect, gardener, and meta-garden philosopher making his way with his young family and his Terremoto Landscape Arc...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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It’s the height of warm season crops in our gardens here in the Northern Hemisphere, and this week Cultivating Place is joined by Jeff Quattrone – ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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It’s the height of summer farmers markets as community hubs, and this week we're in conversation with Cheetah Tchudi co-founder with his wife Sami ...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00