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I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:02
Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 10:12
It’s always fun to have a quest when headed into the hills. It’s okay if the search doesn’t work out. It’s like the great old line, “getting ther...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:32
So many native plants are ready for some of that monsoonal moisture and I am too. Come on summer rains!
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:55
I revealed most of my personal chicken history in this show. It is an ongoing saga, though I am much more in control of my crazy love for chickens....
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- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
What is known is that there’s something going on, something a little wilder than usual. Plus: Rachel Monroe, writer & author & Marfa volunteer fire...
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- Added: May 31, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only one I haven’t seen i...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 05:07
Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Sma...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 28:00
This episode, two stories from the U.S. borders. The first, from Javier Zamora, who crossed into the U.S. without his parents when he was nine year...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 36:40
Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is very common around out little homestead. There are thickets of it all along the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. It ...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 11:28
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
How did Ooo Ahh Point on the South Kaibab Trail in the Grand Canyon get it’s name?
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 05:03
Velvet mesquite is the predominate native mesquite of southern Arizona. If you go west toward California, you will start running into western honey...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 05:18
During our drought many animals are in need of reliable water supply. Attract birds to you with a simple water feature.
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:21
I don’t think there is anything more heartbreaking than seeing a road killed pet. Well, honestly, I have a hard enough time with road killed wildli...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:28
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
It’s true that life in southeastern Arizona is full of “behold!” moments. It is so exciting to live in such a diverse land, both in plants and anim...
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- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
It is nice to have a yard full of native plants. Most of the time I have an idea what and where I want to plant things, but I confess to sometimes ...
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- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
A teenage metal head gets desperate when she can't find any other lesbians in her school. Because, the 80s. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member...
- Added: Nov 12, 2017
- Length: 25:07
Hmm, I sure talk about a lot of things in this show, but fall does this to me and it is the season of seasons that it has just begun. So the monsoo...
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 04:55
The story of girl who copes with feeling like a misfit by inventing imaginary pen pal relationships with Movie of the Week characters. The Mortifie...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 24:06
The common name of chocolate flower refers to the surprising morning fragrance of the flower.
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 05:47
Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 01:08:20
A friendly prank puts Kathryn in a "complicated" Facebook relationship with a sloth, but maybe that's just what her love life needs right now.
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 04:45
This is a story for my son, whose birth was supposed to be completely normal. It was anything but. And then they separated us. (Produced for the KC...
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- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
