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The ins and outs of harvesting rainwater in arid regions.
Bought by WOJB
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 58:09
- Purchases: 1
As we head back to the classroom, consider the value of outdoor learning. We speak with educators and students about what gardens at their high sch...
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Join us for a tour of a new midwestern elementary ag school and a conversation with a farm-to-school garden coordinator.
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Join us for a tour of a new midwestern elementary ag school and a conversation with a farm-to-school garden coordinator.
- Added: Aug 03, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 04:52
I could be over thinking the feeling I got when I saw that lone coati from the now named coati mundi bluff, but it was wonderful. The other flora a...
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 04:17
You’ve probably heard of fungi, whether it’s mold in your bathroom or mushrooms on your favorite hiking trail, but recently, I’ve been hearing that...
Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KMXT
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 03:39
- Purchases: 3
The botanical name of our 3 needle per fascicle (bundle) Chihuahuan pine is Pinus leiophylla var. chihuahuana. Further south into Mexico where the ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 04:35
I thought you’d like to see the fraction of the Galiuro Mountains (Galuros!)
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:00
It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:22
My morning ditties are not nearly as amazing as the song of a curved bill thrasher, but they help me begin the day.
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:28
It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:19
Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:03
Author Angela Tedesco talks about community-supported agriculture and the new book "Finding Turtle Farm"
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 08:01
The genus is now Hesperocyparis, but back in the olden days, I learned the rough bark Arizona cypress of southeastern Arizona as Cupressus arizonic...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 05:00
Lower midwestern states are producing more maple syrup, Black farmers are finding their way into the hemp industry–these stories and more on Earth ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 53:59
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:03
This is a rambling episode about the summer monsoon in the borderlands of southeastern Arizona. I know that I’ve rambled on like this for many year...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:45
I’m so lucky to live in the land of the ornate box turtle (Terrepene ornata luteola). For me it has been a wonderful journey with turtles, from my ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:52
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some old photos. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember him ever being witho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:42
Here are some morning glory photos. Above is Ipomoea ternifolia var. leptotoma and the photo below is of some floral chaos featuring the red flower...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:04
I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:05
The Kids Crew talks with an indigenous farmer who runs a research lab blending tradition and modern agriculture, and we learn about school gardens....
Bought by KDLG, KQRU FM LP, RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Feb 22, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 14
