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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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

Caption: Images courtesy of Eric Hsu. All rights reserved.
On February 12th, the Lunar New Year begins. Celebrated by Asian cultures across the globe, this week Cultivating Place speaks with Eric Hsu, a pla...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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We continue our Apollo@50 special with part two of our look back at Apollo 14. In this episode we focus on the Commander and America's first astron...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2015, Melanie left her 15-year corporate career in the publishing world without a completely clear sense of what she would - or wanted to do- n...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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In the latest of Blue Dot's Apollo@50 series we look back at the third successful lunar landing mission, Apollo 14, which took place during early F...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Karen Flotte with CRC Mitzvah Garden Sign, photo by Jewish Light
This week on Cultivating Place we lean into the spirit of the season and the traditional Jewish festival Tu B’Shevat, or New Year of the Trees in c...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave talks to wildlife veterinarian Joe Gaydos from the Sea Doc Society (a research center on Orcas Island in the Salish Sea off the Washington Coa...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Images courtesy of MaryLynn Mack
MaryLynn Mack is a renaissance woman and leading voice in the world of public gardens today. After beginning her career in the Navy, her experience...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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In honor of the losses, griefs, revisions, and transformations in our world this last year, and in honor of the hopes we all hold in our gardens an...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave visits with one of the world's leading climate scientists, Dr. Michael Mann. The professor of atmospheric sciences at Penn State's just publis...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our FRESH STARTS series in conversation with a long established friend in the gardening world, Doug Tal...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00