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Forever chemicals in fertilizer are getting into the food we eat. Tracey Frisch explains how.
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- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
HOUR ONE: "Wonders Of The Human Body" - What's so wondrous about the human body? An hour on transplants, chronic illnesses and the familiar in ours...
- Added: Jun 23, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
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
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
This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:02
I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:01
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:01
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
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:51
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
There are 2 species of walnuts here in the borderlands of southern Arizona; the Arizona walnut (Juglans major) that I talked about and a species ca...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:34
Did you know that phytochemicals in plants deserve more of our attention for their role in protecting our healthspan? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
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- Added: Mar 25, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
In the gray gloom of winter, I like to brighten up my house with a colorful bouquet of flowers. And I got to wondering, where do these pristine flo...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 2
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
The vast landscapes of the southwest are to die for and every once in a while I capture one with my camera. More and more I remind myself to just t...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:56
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
The loose rock fandango can get pretty elaborate with elements of modern dance, hokey pokey, ballet and of course some jazz hands thrown into the m...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:00
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:03
In July of 2002 I produced an episode about the summer monsoon and spadefoots. It was so much fun to write and record. In July of 2013 I re-recorde...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:35
I’m so lucky to live in the land of the ornate box turtle (Terrepene ornata luteola). For me it has been a wonderful journey with turtles, from my ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:52