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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Blue Dot 
202 Pieces

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

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California Burning 
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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Cultivating Place  
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

CP - Conserving Plant Diversity, with the Nature Conservancy and the Native Plant Trust
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Caption: Image courtesy of the Native Plant Trust, all rights reserved.
Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener I know. ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Blue Dot - A Tale of Two NASA missions: NEA Scout and Oceans Melting Greenland
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave helps profile two NASA missions, one about to begin and one that has just completed. First we preview the NEA Scout mission that will launch a...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - Plantlife International, in conversation with CEO Ian Dunn
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Caption: Photo courtesy of Plantlife International, all rights reserved.
Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants, and fungi...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Blue Dot - California's dry winter: state of the drought
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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After a promising start to the winter with an autumn atmospheric river event and a series of storms in December, California residents started to br...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cultivating Place - Coming to fruition, Fruition Seeds, with Petra Page-Mann
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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Coming up on Cultivating Place this week, we’re in conversation with a new generation seed farmer, Petra Page-Mann. Petra is a co-founder with her ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Blue Dot - FIRE AS A FRIEND RATHER THAN FOE: Cultural Burning with Pyrogeographer Don Hankins
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave welcomes back California State University at Chico Pyrogeographer Don Hankins. They talk about Don's background as a member of the plains Miwo...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - Larner Seeds for The California Landscape, Judith Larner Lowry
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Caption: Photo of Judith Larner Lowry by David Griggs, published in the Point Reyes Light, 2020. All rights reserved.
Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A Time, founde...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
CP - BEST OF The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, Vivien Sansour
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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On Cultivating Place this week, as we revisit a Best Of conversation with Vivien Sansour, the heart and head behind The Palestine Heirloom Seed Lib...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
BD - Exploring the Universe with The James Webb Space Telescope
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave is joined by special guest co-host Dr. Kendall Hall (Professor of Physics CSU Chico) to visit with James Webb Space Telescope science team mem...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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CP - Johnny's Selected Seeds, Independent Home and Market Grower Seed Supplier
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Caption: Image of the Johnny’s Crew circa 1987, 2nd: Dave Melhorn, CEO; 3rd: Lauren Giroux, Director of Product Selection and Trialing Research; 4th: Lettuce Field Trials.
As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes look at an...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00

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Staff of North State Public Radio

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Matthew Fidler (Admin)
Producer/ Audio Engineer
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Evan Matsler (Admin)
Director of Operations
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Sarah Bohannon (Admin)
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Stephen Starbuck (Admin)
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Sarah Downs (Admin)
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