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EE 24-19: Taking on Monsanto: journalist Carey Gillam tells the story of Lee Johnson vs. Big Ag , 5/10/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with award winning journalist Carey Gilliam, author of The Monsanto Papers.

  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
Season 1, Episode 36 - 'Catching Water' feat Brad Lancaster
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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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
Matt Lebon discusses the multiple benefits of “foodscaping.”
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that “foodscaping” involves the planning, design, management, and nurturing of ecological edible landscapes? Join Food Sleuth Radio h...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Elizabeth Hilborn, DVM, registered nurse, farmer and author of Restoring Eden: Unearthing the Agribusiness Secret that Poisoned my Farming Community.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the majority of corn seeds planted in the United States are coated with a powerful pesticide that harms pollinators, birds and ot...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why are we still worried about lead?
From: Possibly
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Lead paint and leaded gasoline haven’t been used in American homes or cars for nearly 30 years. But, researchers say that these sources of lead are...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
Harriet Behar, organic farmer, inspector and educator describes benefits of organic agriculture and new Livestock and Poultry Standards.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that USDA’s new Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards will help promote animal welfare? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered D...

Bought by KVNF and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Erica Gies, author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that climate change is water change? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Could green spaces next to our roads help bees and other pollinators?
From: Possibly
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Today, we’re talking about how the green spaces along our roadsides could be used to help pollinators. Meg Talikoff and Will Malloy are here to exp...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
243: Got Dirt? Get Soil! Ditch the Plow, Cover Up and Grow Diversity, 7/26/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
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The profit-hungry agribusiness empire of the 20th century institutionalized farming practices that continue to degrade soils across the U.S. and gl...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
EE 23-25: Learn how to raise figs in the midwest , 6/16/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A how-to episode for growing your own figs and for preserving your tomato harvest.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
Bearing Witness
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Happy New Year

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 04:52
Wild Contentment
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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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
How do fungi help combat climate change?
From: Possibly
Caption: Mycorrihizal root tip, Credit: Ellen Larsson
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
Robbie Doerhoff, M.S., Forest Entomologist, MO Dept. of Conservation discusses harm from herbicides, dicamba and 2,4-D
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the herbicides, dicamba and 2,4-D, increasing sprayed on genetically engineered commodity crops (soy, cotton, corn) can drift fro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
David Abazs, organic farmer, and Executive Director of the Northeast Regional Sustainable Development Partnership at the U. of MN
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that climate change effects our natural environment and food system? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hem...

Bought by KVNF and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jeanne Heuser award winning citizen activist, former technical information specialist, USGS
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that knowing our watershed, and understanding water and nitrogen cycles is key to sustainable food and farming methods? Join Food Sleu...

Bought by KVNF and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Christopher Hobbs Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelga...

Bought by KVNF and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
California Buckthorn
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:18
Sara's Onion
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
Canyon Tree Frog
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Western Amphibians

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
Healing the World's Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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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
EE 22-48: The National Young Farmers Coalition centers racial equity, 11/25/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The future of farming must be inclusive, and the NYFC is intentionally moving agriculture towards racial diversity.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Dancing on Rocky Slopes
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I thought you’d like to see the fraction of the Galiuro Mountains (Galuros!)

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
Asclepias Lemmonii
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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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
Condalia correllii in the Borderlands
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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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