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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199 Pieces

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

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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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278 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

Caption: PHOTOS courtesy of Colleen Southwell, the Garden Curator. Image of Colleen in her studio by Madeline Young. All rights reserved.
In the throes of high summer, Cultivating Place continues to explore the fruits of the imaginative nature of the garden. We begin a two part series...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Dr. Lucy Jones on KTLA in Los Angeles
Unlike the fictional Indiana, there is a real life Dr. Jones and her name is Lucy. Dave talks to seismologist and disaster preparedness expert Lucy...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Images from The Imagination of Plants (SUNY Press, 2019), used courtesy of Matthew Hall
A good read often plumbs the depths of imagination, for Matthew Hall - gardener & researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand – it...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Cultivating Place we take a summer amble with with British-based Californian Kathryn Aalto – an historian, designer, and writer whose ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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In honor of the Fourth of July, Cultivating Place is joined this week by the acclaimed writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid, whose work "My Garden (...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Amy Goldman is a gardener, author artist and longtime advocate for seed saving, plant breeding, and heirloom fruits and vegetables. Her mission has...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Jacqueline Novogratz
Dave has been thinking a lot lately, like many of us, about the role that market driven economic policies have on the environment, social justice i...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nadia holding a Carolina Sphinx Moth
Nadia Ruffin is an entomologist, gardener and educator. She is the founder of Agricademy Inc, and Urban Farm Sista based in Cincinatti, Ohio. A lov...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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June is traditionally a month in which many, many weddings are celebrated with family, food, and FLOWERS. With many of these weddings on hold this ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Frank Quiarte at Maverick's
Big Wave Dave talks surfing! Featuring a conversation between San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter Bruce Jenkins and retired NASA Oceanographer Bil...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2