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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202 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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281 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: Photos Courtesy of Toni Gattone, all rights reserved.
Toni Gattone is a business woman, a master gardener, and a lifelong gardener of Italian descent. After struggling herself with a bad back, and the ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Be sure to tune in next week when BD returns to the beach with Airrion Copeland, a black surfer who produced the documentary WhiteWash about chall...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Farmer Meg is an urban beekeeper turned flower and market grower turned farmer. Meg has been farming in NJ and NY city and state for almost a decad...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on Cultivating Place we get a booster shot of energy and inspiration as we enter the dog days of summer when we’re joined by Colah B. Taw...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The CEO of the Surfrider Foundation, Chad Nelsen joins us for a look at their work on protecting beach access and keeping the surf zone safe from c...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: All Photos courtesy of Jasna Guy, All rights reserved.
Jasna Guy is an artist whose visionary and liminal work is based in close observation of the plants and pollinators – specifically bees – of her ga...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: PHOTOS courtesy of Colleen Southwell, the Garden Curator. Image of Colleen in her studio by Madeline Young. All rights reserved.
In the throes of high summer, Cultivating Place continues to explore the fruits of the imaginative nature of the garden. We begin a two part series...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Dr. Lucy Jones on KTLA in Los Angeles
Unlike the fictional Indiana, there is a real life Dr. Jones and her name is Lucy. Dave talks to seismologist and disaster preparedness expert Lucy...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Images from The Imagination of Plants (SUNY Press, 2019), used courtesy of Matthew Hall
A good read often plumbs the depths of imagination, for Matthew Hall - gardener & researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand – it...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Cultivating Place we take a summer amble with with British-based Californian Kathryn Aalto – an historian, designer, and writer whose ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00