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Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) are wonderful and lots of folks agree. The little town of Bisbee in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:29
Today, we’re digging into urban agriculture. Would it be possible to get all of our food from local farms?
Bought by Raven Radio, KICI Iowa City, and WRFA-LP
- Added: Aug 07, 2022
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 3
San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 05:08
The act of composting ensures that food scraps and green waste are never wasted, but returned to enrich the soil. It sequesters carbon, and helps t...
- Added: Jul 11, 2022
- Length: 58:00
Did you know that the Environmental Protection Agency, our government agency that reviews and licenses pesticides relies almost exclusively on manu...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
I pursued the Mexican stoneroller ( Campostoma ornatum) for a few minutes trying to get a photo or two before deciding to quit harassing the fish i...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:19
What is the role of community in the life of a farm? How do farmers strike a work/life balance? Explore these questions and more on this special ep...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Did you know that the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that one third of all food in the U.S. goes uneaten and in 2018, about 81 percent, ...
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- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that the American food supply is increasingly contaminated with the herbicide glyphosate? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered d...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
I forgot to say that false solomon’s seal was formerly in the family Liliaceae, but is now in Asparagaceae. There are 2 subspecies of Maianthemum r...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 04:09
There are 30 species of Dalea found in Arizona, many of which are in the nursery trade because they are so doggone pretty. How cool is that? Very.
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- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 04:20
The genus Artemisia is in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. Well, t...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 05:05
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:51
Our one flowering wildflower on this wonderful day was the very pretty perennial called penny cress or candy tufts. It is the former Thlaspi fendl...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:36
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
Did you know that pesticide drift interferes with the ability of rural farmers to feed their communities? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registere...
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- Added: Apr 14, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The California law prohibiting unfair business practices is the basis for the 2003 lawsuit brought against the Pacific Lumber Company by the People...
- Added: Apr 06, 2022
- Length: 29:00
We are living in stressful times and getting out of the house, if only to your back yard, is always a good idea. Native flora and fauna can cure th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in t...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:35
I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants are called...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:18
In the gray gloom of winter, I like to brighten up my house with a colorful bouquet of flowers. And I got to wondering, where do these pristine flo...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 2
A conversation with two livestock farmers focused on treating the animals well, and nourishing the land.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 54:01
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
