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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We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant community-thinking gettin...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Image courtesy of Collin Pine, illustration by Tiffany Everett, all rights reserved.
Collin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an educator and writer. His first book is a work of garden-based children’s literature, The Garden Next...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave is joined by Bloomberg News science reporter Loren Grush to talk about her new book, The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astron...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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​ Jennifer Jewell ​ Caribbean born British-based writer and Gardener, Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Coun...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Dave delves into the topic of California's amazingly diverse climate and weather with the authors of the new book, Fire and Rain: California's Chan...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, I am thrilled to be joined this week...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Fly angler on the McCloud River, Credit: Curtis Knight/CalTrout
Dave is joined by the Executive Director of California Trout, Curtis Knight, to talk about the conservation organization and its regional restorati...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disciplinary, creative, high skilled horticulturist, and the human behind an epic new book and the Aus...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power for growi...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave and Pascal Lee team up once again, this time to discuss Lee winning the Carl Sagan Prize from Wonderfest in the San Francisco Bay Area for his...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1