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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
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
Yves Zehnder tells how he ended up off-grid, off-road and offline in a quest to live simply as a homesteader with a far smaller than average footpr...
- Added: Feb 13, 2023
- Length: 58:00
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 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
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
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 04:01
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
The future of farming must be inclusive, and the NYFC is intentionally moving agriculture towards racial diversity.
- Added: Nov 22, 2022
- Length: 54:00
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
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 05:00
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
I have two huge trees in my yard and they dump a lot of leaves. Sometimes I wonder, what would happen if I just let those piles of leaves stay on ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2022
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 2
When a loved one passes away, we often just have two choices- burial or cremation. But there’s a new option in some states that claims to use less ...
Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 05, 2022
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 3
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
If you love the taste of homegrown midwest tomatoes, now is your chance to learn how to capture that goodness to enjoy all winter long.
- Added: Sep 08, 2022
- Length: 54:00
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
The photos are mine of the Mirabilis longiflora flowers and Manduca sexta, the Carolina sphinx moth and tobacco hornworm. Note the seven streamline...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:21
