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Two episodes about people struggling to see eye-to-eye.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
Two episodes about people doing what they love, despite adversity.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jun 14, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 04:18
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:16
I thought you’d like to see the fraction of the Galiuro Mountains (Galuros!)
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:00
It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:22
My morning ditties are not nearly as amazing as the song of a curved bill thrasher, but they help me begin the day.
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:28
It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:19
Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:03
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:00
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
We wrap up our seven-part thematic overview of the ocean edge this week by discussing the cultural edge: the place alongshore where we interact wit...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 05:03
This week with "Hard Edges" we kick off a 7-part series dedicated to the ocean edge, exploring what takes place there, from the real to the symboli...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 08, 2019
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 1
House finches are pretty darned cute and that’s why pet stores back in New York City in 1939 were selling them as “Hollywood Finches”. The Migrator...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:43
It’s the way that folks at the Bisbee farmers Market say, “Oh, you grow the bellota.” that makes me think of that common name as an honorific name ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:02
Aaron Brown talks about the subtle quirks that give life in Minnesota its nuances and its hardships in his review of author Chris Niskanen's book, ...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 1
He finally succumbed to the peer pressure of the pastoral society in rural Northern Minnesota. His recipe for Summer 2010.
- Added: Aug 23, 2010
- Length: 02:32
He used to spend summer evenings shuttling back and forth between the deck where the grill was and the kitchen where everything else was.
- Added: Aug 23, 2010
- Length: 08:44
Visitors to Jane Austen's museum are scattering cremains. Administrators there disapprove. So does Ian.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:05
Why do Americans spend billions of dollars and countless hours to maintain a "perfect" lawn?
- Added: May 01, 2006
- Length: 03:49
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 11, 2005
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 1
