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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203 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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283 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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Mike Sullivan is the author of the trees in San Francisco, Jason De Wees is a horticulturist and author of Designing with Palms and Richard Turner ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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This week I’m thankful for my own garden, of course, but also for the good fresh food grown for all of us by so many hard working souls wherever yo...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave talks to two scientists studying the solar system but in very different ways. First he visits with Los Alamos National Laboratory planetary sc...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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As a gardener and a human in this exact time on our planet, and in this specific season of the year - a season of communal gathering and thankfulne...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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You probably learned in school that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but rather an "oblate spheroid" meaning that it bulges a bit at the equator. ...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Heather McCargo of the Wild Seed Project, image courtesy of Wild Seed Project, from the Portland Press Herald.
The Wild Seed Project envisions a landscape where people help re-populate the landscape to be abundant with native plants (primarily grown from see...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave chats with Tim James about his new book, Astronomical: From Quasars to Quarks the Science of Space at its Strangest. The book, scheduled for r...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Last week on Cultivating Place, we looked at Gardens and history through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden Hist...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave visits with Brendan Byrne, space reporter for NPR affiliate WMFE in Orlando, Florida about a very busy 2021 in the space business with commerc...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Just in time for Samhain, All Hallow’s Eve, and Day of the Dead observances, this week we explore the sacred, green and communal space of a cemeter...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00