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: Psyche the spacecraft and asteroid, Credit: NASA
Scheduled for launch around the original airing of this program, the Psyche mission will be off to explore the asteroid it is named for, 16 Psyche....

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Cultivating Place we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant-loving and garden-growing lives in conversation with Ol...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Dave is joined by Rosanna Xia, environmental journalist for the Los Angeles Times to discuss her new book, California Against The Sea: Visions for ...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we enjoy a conversation with a gardener and garden guru well known and loved: Joe Lamp’l of the famed and award-winning Growing a Greener...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, a Best OF episode revisiting our conversation with Maria Popova, the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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On this special edition of the show, our guest will be Cultivating Place’s wonderful host, Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer has a new book out and it’s ve...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave is joined by Sky and Telescope magazine senior contributing editor Rick Fienberg to preview the big celestial event coming up soon, the total ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WCNY, and KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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This week our second episodes on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s inaugural Garden Futures...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave is joined by special guest and co-host Katie Mackey Harris for a look at the world of aquaculture in the western United States. Harris is the ...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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To kick off September, we head to the Big Apple where at the end of the month the Garden Conservancy is holding its inaugural Garden Futures Summit...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00