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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
When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:03
Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the University of Arizona in...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 03:47
I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants are called...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:18
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
One of the positive sides of isolating and staying very close to home during the pandemic is that we discovered new places and rediscovered old hau...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 05:07
Our oceans are rising and taking over more land every year. Most governments try to fix this by blocking the water out and sealing the humans in. B...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 2
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
Coming up on Cultivating Place this week, we’re in conversation with a new generation seed farmer, Petra Page-Mann. Petra is a co-founder with her ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Dave welcomes back California State University at Chico Pyrogeographer Don Hankins. They talk about Don's background as a member of the plains Miwo...
Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach
- Added: Jan 27, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A Time, founde...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In this segment we hear from Bois Forte elder, Gary Strong who talks about hunting, fishing, and ricing Nett Lake MN a long time ago.
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 04:05
If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth?
In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....
Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WDSE and more
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 9
If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth?
In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 58:58
Karen Drift Word of The Day - Gegaagoo Manoominikemin - It's almost ricing
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Dec 02, 2021
- Length: :34
- Purchases: 1
The way we see the world creates the world. If a new way of seeing is needed, what might that look like? Indigenous leaders Dakota-Dine Tom Goldtoo...
- Added: Nov 22, 2021
- Length: 28:30
This week on the show: Innovative perspectives and ancient forests -
An illegal bus ride with Palestinians to the beach. Cameroonian Baka indig...
- Added: Nov 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
In the midst of a national reckoning with white supremacy and colonial history, Indigenous people are demanding a new relationship with DC — honori...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN
- Added: Nov 18, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Electric vehicles are gaining traction on Minnesota’s roadways. This week on Minnesota Native News, reporter Emma Needham shares how a Native-led o...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, WDSE, KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS and more
- Added: Nov 10, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 8
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
The glossary in the back of a flora is full of wonderful words that you may never had heard or seen before, especially if you’re not a botanist. I ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:13
The photos are mine of a chiltepin at our our home. It’s one of several we have in pots. They are great in the ground too, but I love the way they ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:52
Wandering through a woodland.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:16
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