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On this week’s show, it’s all about bugs and birds. Is it end times for entomology, the study of insects? Can high-frequency, loud electronic music...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Apr 10, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Tucked away between Nazareth and Afula, in the heart of the Jezreel Valley, Moshav Balfouria feels like a time capsule: Its forty-six agricultural ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2018
- Length: 11:48
Spectrum: All bugs are just dust in the wind -
An unbelievable collection of data gathered by the entomological society in Krefeld shows that ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Living Planet: Insects and us -
On this week’s show: Most people think of insects as pests to get rid of — but our survival may be intimately...
Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU
- Added: Jun 21, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 4
Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is very common around out little homestead. There are thickets of it all along the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. It ...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 11:28
At one point when I was reading about the age of water I came across some research indicating that some of the water molecules we drink could be 4....
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:09
Calliandra is a beautiful plant name. I like the way a genus name can sometimes become the common name as well. I wonder how many baby girls of bot...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:07
I like the name sumac and I’ve known it since I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth was poison sumac or poison ivy, but ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:42
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go. The current and correct name for ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:13
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:23
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
Velvet mesquite is the predominate native mesquite of southern Arizona. If you go west toward California, you will start running into western honey...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 05:18
It is nice to have a yard full of native plants. Most of the time I have an idea what and where I want to plant things, but I confess to sometimes ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
I think I revealed most of my chicken history in this show.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 04:45
Made in the Transom traveling workshop:
Welding large metal structures takes its toll on an aging sculptor. What's an artist's retirement plan?
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 03:59
Spoken Editions #206: Romantic Modern: California Architecture 1930 to 1950, Harwell Hamilton Harris
From: Teosson Wells
Free, audio excerpt from a book. The California of Harris’ youth was a very different place than it is today: It was a verdant oasis of orange grov...
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 06:35
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Aaron Brown talks about the subtle quirks that give life in Minnesota its nuances and its hardships in his review of author Chris Niskanen's book, ...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 1
Sharon Chmielarz has been published in literary magazines nationwide. Chmielarz has published travel memoirs and three children's picture books. An...
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 03:05
An intern from Genesis Gardens talks about her time working on farms and her current activity working on a farm with the homeless.
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 02:47
Nuevo Mexicano Miguel Santistevan is an artist farmer resercher, who at his Taos farm integrates sustanibility practices from multicultural and pra...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Taste the fruit of a tree that has a placenta buried beneath it... it's tart and crisp. Learn about how the placenta, which connects mother and chi...
- Added: Aug 27, 2011
- Length: 08:04
Charlie profiles edible flowers. There are many varieties to choose from that are good for salads, drinks, stir fries, soups and desserts. Charlie...
- Added: Jul 27, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
People from away don't understand how we do things here in Maine.
- Added: Nov 18, 2010
- Length: 01:21
- Added: Mar 07, 2010
- Length: :36
