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Hmong Farmer Jefferson Herr, Year-round heated Greenhouse project
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Meet Jefferson Herr. With his family, Jefferson runs Herr Flower Farm in Vale, North Carolina. Flower farming has become very common in Hmong commu...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Goat Lady CSA
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Steve Tate runs the Goat Lady Dairy in Climax, North Carolina. Last year was the first year of the farm's CSA. Steve learned that he grew way too m...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
Firefly Farm, Multi-purpose Barn
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Elizabeth Gibbs and Scott Paquin run Firefly Farm in Burnsville, North Carolina. They're building a multi-purpose barn which will house hay for the...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
The American Prawn Cooperative
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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The American Prawn Cooperative (APC) is "writing the book on the prawn industry." The APC is based in Greene County, North Carolina, and Greene Cou...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
Farmer Ben Haines, Project Portable Organic Feedmill
From: Rural Advancement Radio
Caption: Ben Haines & his cow
Meet Ben Haines, of Looking Back Farm, in eastern North Carolina. Ben and his father have been farming organically for more than twenty years. Most...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 1
Five Farms, Episode Five: Succession
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: David Pecusa, Third Mesa, Hopi Nation, Credit: Andrew Lewis
For each of the families of Five Farms, the question looms large: Who will take over the farm? Succession features the next generation --- the youn...

Bought by WCNY, WEKU, KFOK-LPFM, WRPI, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode Four: Harvest
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Jeff and Annie Main, Capay, Cal., Credit: Alix Lowrey Blair
Autumn is harvest time. That means Iowa corn and soybeans; fruit dried in the California sun; greens, beans, and potatoes; slaughtered hogs and bee...

Bought by WFAE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, KUNM, KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 28
Five Farms, Episode Three: Stewardship
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Sherry Hager, Colrain, Mass., Credit: Steve Schapiro
Stewardship focuses on the daily choices farming families make to preserve their land, water, and air --- the fundamentals of farming. During mid-s...

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, WEKU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode Two: Nurturing
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Eddie Wise, Whitakers, N.C., Credit: Tom Rankin
Early summer is a time of long days on the family farm, perfect for nurturing crops and animals as they approach the peak of growing season. Nurtur...

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, WEKU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode One: Planting
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Craig Griffieon of Ankeny, Iowa, Credit: Elena Rue
Spring planting on the family farm is the time of the annual gamble --- on the alchemies of nature, on the health of livestock, on future fall harv...

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGNU Community Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Delta Deli Blues
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Rebecca Barrett and the Klines serving lunch, Credit: Philip Graitcer
Greenville, Mississippi is singing the blues about the corned beef luncheon.

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
MA-193 Food: What's Eating Me
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:26
The Sheepherder
From: clay scott
Series: Mountain West Voices
Caption: Denis Casas in the high country, Credit: clay scott
Herding sheep is a lonely profession, especially when you are thousands of miles from home. A generation ago, the sheepherders of the Rocky Mounta...

Bought by KVNF, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Why We Eat Some Animals and Not Others
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Why do we eat some animals and not others? That is the topic of this conversation with Melanie Joy, Ph.D. She is the author of, "Why We Love Dogs, ...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Adopt A Wolf?
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A calf might be easier on the grandchildren

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 07, 2010
  • Length: :43
  • Purchases: 1
Evidence for Fast Food 20,000 BC
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
An ancient obese female doll may represent a mother goddess worshipped by Stone Age people

  • Added: Dec 05, 2010
  • Length: :54
A Bunch Is A Bunch
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
People from away don't understand how we do things here in Maine.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 01:21
Comfort Foods
From: Phil Mariage
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Generational discoussion on comfort foods we all enjoy

  • Added: Nov 13, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
The Live Feed Present The Winona State University Jazz Faculty
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this edition of The Live Feed we sit in with the Winona State University Faculty Jazz Ensemble. The group met up at Ed's No Name Bar on Septembe...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 32:10
Manners For The Dining Area
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
How does one define "good manners"

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 1
One Last Word — Tomatoes
From: Mark Blackmon
Series: One Last Word
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There's a dish of small tomatoes sitting in my refrigerator this afternoon. I think they are the last ones I'm going to get this year. I don't li...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
Eat A Salad Every Day
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We are impressed by people who eat health food

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
Tracey Hardy-Johnson
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What's For Breakfast
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We talk with KAXE member Tracey Hardy-Johnson; she had exotic french-vanilla yogurt with blueberries mixed in and toast with peanut butter.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 11:17
US AID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah
From: National Press Club
Series: From the National Press Club
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US AID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah discusses the mission of US AID in the Obama Administration and it's role in tackeling world hunger, the AIDS e...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 53:59
Snake Oil
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Snake oil is now euphemistically called herbal supplements.

  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:07

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