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If you look closely, cicadas do look prehistoric, so how long have they been around and how have they survived so long on our ever-changing planet?
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WRFA-LP
- Added: May 11, 2021
- Length: 16:39
- Purchases: 2
As we begin our 10-week journey of the 2021 Brood X emergence, Dr. Kritsky and Cory Sharber discuss the very basics of cicadas – what are they, wha...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 27, 2021
- Length: 17:01
- Purchases: 2
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
Here we are – mid-way into Women’s History Month, one year after the publication of The Earth in Her Hands. In honor of these two thresholds, this ...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
Niger is one of the largest and poorest countries in West Africa. While most of the country is in the Saharan Desert, a reclamation has begun, with...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 02:30
This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our FRESH STARTS series in conversation with a long established friend in the gardening world, Doug Tal...
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 59:00
This week on Cultivating Place, the third in our 4 part Seed Change series with Cheryl Birker, Seed Conservation Program Manager at California Bota...
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 59:00
In this very unusual back-to-school season here in the US, we’re joined this week by Julie Cerny a gardener, an outdoor enthusiast and educator. He...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 59:00
Long-time mushroom enthusiast Andre Kohler takes us on a foraging trip through the Santa Monica mountains.
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 02:28
Bees like sugary nectar. Turns out, it might just be their own buzzing that makes flowers sweeter.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
It's finally gardening time in Minnesota, and this year that "hobby" might take on a little more meaning, especially when it comes to community gar...
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 28:25
Fallon Shea is a self-described rose devotee and roseologist currently making her life with roses in Southern California as a grower, designer, art...
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 59:00
Uli Lorimer is director of Horticulture for the Native Plant Trust in Massachusetts. His work as a native plant and biodiversity advocate is inform...
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 59:00
Dave talks to his metaphorical sister -- Jennifer Jewell, the host of Cultivating Place, which is also produced from North State Public Radio. Dave...
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 02:00
January, and mid-winter indeed feels poetic in its spareness, and while many poets come to mind, for me Emily Dickinson stands out for seasonality ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 59:00
It's shaping up to be a big news year for Washington DC, so this week Cultivating Place heads to the capital, but we’re there to check in with the ...
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 59:00
Ken Druse is a gardener and garden writer. This week on Cultivating Place Ken joins us to explore and revel in the scented Side of the garden - the...
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 59:00
I can’t believe I almost let November go by without at least mentioning desert broom (Baccahris sarothroides). It is the native plant the folks lo...
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 04:52
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
Dr. Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation and adaptation scientist working to model and communicate how people can adapt at local levels to the GLOBAL ...
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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
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: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 05:12