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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
Adam Alexander, author of The Seed Detective: Uncovering the secret histories of remarkable vegetables
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that home gardeners have a critical role in helping to conserve the biodiversity of crops, which is crucial in combatting climate chan...

Bought by KVNF and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bart Elmore, Ph.D., environmental historian at the Ohio State University and author of Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that Monsanto knew PCBs were harmful to public health, but continued to profit from their sale? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Regist...

Bought by KVNF and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Have You Heard the Buzz? Why We Need Pollinators
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Bees and butterflies can bring a safari to your yard, if you give them a chance.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
John Wargo, Ph.D., discusses “Pesticide Risks: From our Farms to our Homes.”
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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
Rhonda Sherman, M.S., Extension Specialist on composting, recycling and solid waste reduction.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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, ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Henry Rowlands, Director of the Detox Project, discusses his latest report: “Glyphosate Contamination: The Poison in Our Daily Bread.”
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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
Michael O’Donnell, farmer, discusses pesticide drift.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that pesticide drift interferes with the ability of rural farmers to feed their communities? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registere...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jonathan Lundgren Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that most cropland in the U.S. is characterized by large monocultures, whose productivity is maintained with costly inputs, such as ch...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Power of Planting
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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After being hospitalized for a month due to a complicated surgery that resulted in a blood infection, Sonia Flunder-Mcnair turned to food and the p...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
  • Purchases: 1
EE 21-30: Groundwork Indy: Tending Gardens, Nurturing Youth, 7/23/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A youth work program in Northwest Indianapolis helps to build personal and community resilience through garden and conservation work.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:01
GN_3.26_Life After Life
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Why be buried in a casket when you can be buried as a tree? Bios urns are giving people a second shot at life after death.

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_7.26_Crop Swap L.A.
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Planting and harvesting fresh food in a Los Angeles back yard grows a successful local food exchange.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Episode 4: Beyond Livestock: Animals in Regenerative Agriculture
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: Chicken Tractor at the Raven Rocks Quaker farm in Beallsville, Credit: Renee Wilde
Regenerative agriculture is more than a human-centered enterprise: it means working with nature and alongside other creatures, to accomplish larger...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 23:34
GN_7.25_Magic Mushroom Material
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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In the search for more sustainable construction materials, a California artist is making bricks out of fungus, and they are stronger than concrete.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_2.60_Buzzing Boundary
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 2
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Farmers use bees to deter elephants from crop raiding.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
GN_7.21_To Bee or Not To Bee
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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A bee-saving plan in America's upper midwest.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
Molly Rockamann, Founding Director of Earth Dance Certified Organic Farm School based in Ferguson Missouri.
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that farming in community creates a social contract between people, and can help lift depression and loneliness? Join Food Sleuth Radi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.27_ 40K Organic Acres
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Farmers are discovering that going organic pays well, reduces costs, and sustains the health of not only the people, but the earth itself.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:26
GN_6.19_Via Verde
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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Mexico City uses the concept of vertical gardening to transform their highway pillars into air-cleansing and people-pleasing monoliths.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
GN_6.18_Bus Stop Bees
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
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Bee habitats atop bus stops in Holland are reviving bee, butterfly and other insect populations.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.41_ WormFoodWinWin
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
GN_6.44_ Compost City
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A determined New Yorker makes city composting a real thing.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:22
GN_6.51_ Free Food Forest
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is transforming 7 acres of unused land into the nation's largest food forest.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
GN_6.58_ Biological Building
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
Living concrete: This biological material has multiple layers that allow for the growth of plants on the outside of a building, without sacrificin...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1