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From food hubs, farm-to-school programs and local food value chains, this week’s show is all about building a better local food system.
- Added: Sep 11, 2024
- Length: 53:58
When Nicole Schonemann switched to a plant-based diet, she was looking for delicious food and noticed her community had a gap. Planted Bloomington ...
- Added: Aug 22, 2024
- Length: 54:01
Biologist Ivette Perfecto uncovers the complex relationships between insect species in a move towards sustainable pest control for farmers.
- Added: Aug 01, 2024
- Length: 53:59
As the St. Cloud State University Community Garden commemorates its 20th year, the garden's director, Tracy Ore, reflects on the long journey creat...
- Added: Jul 25, 2024
- Length: 30:00
Farm life still manages to attract young people, but they often come to the land with unrealistic expectations.
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 54:01
Liz Carlisle’s book, Healing Grounds, explores the origins of the farming practices we need today–in order to reduce the devastating effects of agr...
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Jerry Mercury had never experienced a place like the community garden he found in Tallinn, Estonia. In a difficult time, it meant the world to him.
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 53:59
Celebrating 15 years of stories that matter with another favorite from the archives about stewarding the land for future generations.
- Added: Jan 31, 2024
- Length: 54:00
A recent fellowship for young farmers focuses on Black, Indigenous and People of Color in Monroe County, Indiana.
- Added: Nov 28, 2023
- Length: 54:00
As we head back to the classroom, consider the value of outdoor learning. We speak with educators and students about what gardens at their high sch...
- Added: Aug 10, 2023
- Length: 54:00
A how-to episode for growing your own figs and for preserving your tomato harvest.
- Added: Jun 14, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Asian Jumping Worms
- Added: Mar 07, 2023
- Length: 02:00
- Added: Jan 31, 2023
- Length: 10:27
- Added: Jan 31, 2023
- Length: 10:05
- Added: Jan 31, 2023
- Length: 10:20
The art of Brooklyn-based artist Bahar Behbahani responds to the history and character of the complex landscapes that surround her—reflecting on he...
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 16:19
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 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
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
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
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 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
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