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In this first week of March, we kick off Women’s History Month in conversation with one of the great critical thinkers and writers of our time, Reb...
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In one of our more flamboyant arboreal seasons of the year—when our charismatic woody megaflora of the Northern Hemisphere—the trees—are chorophyll...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the idea, design, ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Last week on Cultivating Place, we looked at Gardens and history through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden Hist...
- Added: Nov 03, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Hemp seeds were first introduced to North America by European colonists and were grown to produce everything from rope and canvas, to paper, paints...
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 21:33
Bonnie J Clarke is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of Gardens and Gar...
- Added: Jul 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Our expert, Dr. Gene Kritsky, has devoted a great deal of his professional life to the study of cicadas. But who studied them before him?
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 16:29
- Purchases: 1
A well-known fruit with a not-so-well-known history.
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 02:30
The number of Black-owned farms has drastically declined since the 1920s, and now make up less than two percent of total U.S. farmland. In this epi...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 21:23
- Purchases: 1
How did we go from no green spaces in city neighborhoods to the perfectly manicured lawn that defines American suburbia? It all comes down to Frede...
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- Added: Sep 16, 2020
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 1
The Sweet Smell of Victory—How Gardeners Are Drawing on History to Help During the COVID-19 Pandemic
From: H2O RadioSeries: The Dirt: Agriculture, Food, and Water
With many people staying close to home during the coronavirus pandemic, gardening has become popular, specifically vegetable gardens. COVID-19 has...
- Added: Sep 08, 2020
- Length: 06:06
This week the Cultivating Place series on Healing Gardens dives into one of our most ancient healing plant allies – the Elder – its genus, its hist...
- Added: Feb 19, 2020
- Length: 59:00
The weather has been nice to The Rough Draft Diaries so we're heading outside yet again for this week's episode. We're at Woodlawn Cemetery and Arb...
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 06:16
Where did the term 420 come from? Money Matters details its history and host Marc Cuniberti finds out its closer to home then he thought.
- Added: Jun 02, 2018
- Length: 04:10
An interview with Venice Wiliams the executive director of Alice's Garden, an urban agriculture facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Added: Oct 23, 2017
- Length: 13:41
A community garden project at Barrett Brothers Park in north St. Louis prompts memories of the Barrett family, who came to Missouri as Irish famine...
- Added: May 28, 2017
- Length: 03:23
This novel intertwines the life of 18-year-old Victoria Jones, who is leaving the foster care system in contemporary California, with the medieval ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Mar 26, 2017
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
History of the Hartman Rock Garden; a roadside attraction in Springfield, Ohio that was nearly destroyed in the 90's and renovated by the Kohler Fo...
- Added: Jan 17, 2017
- Length: 05:33
Radio Curious discusses the history and evolution of wine with Glenn McGourty, the Winegrowing and Plant Science Advisor at the University of Calif...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 02:31:51
Grant Nelson tells us about the traveling sprinkler, once and currently used to water a residential lawn.
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 03:49
MN Reads welcomes author of "Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works", Atina Diffley. Her book is a story of the working land and how we live i...
- Added: Mar 22, 2015
- Length: 09:58
Andrea Martin of St. Paul joins Radio Gallery to share her passion for the paper arts. Martin recently showed some of her paper-cuts in the Women’s...
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- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 1
The National Mall has long been considered "America's front yard." But for years, America's front yard has looked more like an abandoned lot with w...
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 05:49
Typically on Sidewalk Radio we choose dynamic topics that are in a state of flux. The BeltLine, The Clermont Hotel, The Art Show, as recent exampl...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 26:06