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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
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 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
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
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
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
Brood X, as you might be hearing, has emerged and they are looking to do the one thing they’ve been waiting 17 years to do – mate! The loud buzzing...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 19:04
- Purchases: 1
This will be the summer of Brood X, the emergence of the 17-year cicadas in trees throughout our area and many parts of the country.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 22, 2021
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 1
This the start of my “mud dauber research” as I have much to learn about these wasps that fly around the Mesquitey collection of cool stuff (the ki...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:12
Well, I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left some stuff out and so here is what I left...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 04:55
I don’t know any poultry fanciers that don’t have a guinea fowl story or two or three. Chickens are where it usually starts as they are the gateway...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 05:10
Spectrum: All bugs are just dust in the wind -
An unbelievable collection of data gathered by the entomological society in Krefeld shows that ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:16
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go. The current and correct name for ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:13
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:23
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
The color of a leaf is a dance as one molecule exits and others make their way to center stage.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Monarch Radio
- Added: Sep 04, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Cary Fowler former Head of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Founder of the Seed Vault and Author of Seeds on Ic...
Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2017
- Length: 27:03
- Purchases: 2
I suspect I talk about point-leaf manzantia (Arctostaphylos pungens) every February, as it is the time of year when I’m feeling florally deprived a...
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 05:08
March 11, 2017 Inca doves are found all along the borderlands and southward into Mexico. The common name should probably be Aztec dove, as the Inca...
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 05:26
Petey loves Platanus wrightii and daydreams of streets lined in huge unruly sycamores. He’s a dreamer.
Of course sycamores in the wild are magnifi...
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 04:53
The Loggerhead Shrike is common, but still a fun sighting when your are out in the field.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 04:55
This show could also be called Typha latifolia and Grus canadensis, which has a nice scientific ring to it.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 05:13
brewing beer in the driveway
Bought by WABE, KUT, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: May 17, 2008
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 5