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World-renowned soil biologist Dr. Elaine Ingham and her Soil Food Web Approach [https://www.soilfoodweb.com/] has successfully been implemented to...
- Added: Dec 05, 2022
- Length: 58:00
Port Arthur Texas is home base for the largest oil refinery in North America and a dizzying toxic array of fossil fuel and chemical facilities. But...
- Added: Sep 05, 2022
- Length: 58:00
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:42
Today, we have a question from Michael in Charlestown, Rhode Island. He wants to know: does a charger still use some power when it's plugged into a...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 2
We look into the truth about compostable foodservice and packaging with Erin Levine, Resource Recovery Manager at World Centric [https://www.worldc...
- Added: Jun 27, 2022
- Length: 58:00
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:09
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
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
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:43
One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights througho...
- Added: Feb 23, 2022
- Length: 28:30
I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:07
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:03
A postcard from Earth's largest living being: the Pando Aspen Grove near Fish Lake, Utah.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:06
I concentrated on a few fall bloomers in the Aster family that have yellow flowers and I bet you thought of other species that should have been inc...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:31
There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting!
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:23
I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff.
Native bees that buzz poll...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:43
Brood X, as you might be hearing, has emerged and they are looking to do the one thing they’ve been waiting 17 years to do – mate! The loud buzzing...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 19:04
- Purchases: 1
Since producing this episode of Growing Native we have encountered Jatropha macrorhiza a couple more times. A recent sighting was over near the New...
- Added: Aug 08, 2020
- Length: 05:17
What is it about sycamore trees? When I mention a sycamore or show a photo of one to someone, invariably they declare their love of the tree. Well,...
- Added: Mar 17, 2020
- Length: 04:55
Our hosts discuss the factors that create volcanoes and their impact on the world's carbon dioxide levels.
Bought by Belfast Community Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 12:08
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Can you taste where a wine came from? -
Volcanic soils, limestone bedrock, steep slate slopes — isn’t it lovely to imagi...
- Added: Oct 16, 2019
- Length: 30:00
You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:13
