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Reporting on Covid in the Country
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Equipped with a facemask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports in this episode (from a responsible distance) on the impact of Covid-19 on one ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bicycles Against Poverty
From: Travis Sanderson
Caption: Bicycles Against Poverty, Credit: Travis Sanderson
In the global north, the bicycle is often perceived as a toy; something for kids or designed for leisure. But in rural Uganda the bicycle can be a ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 24:01
Can Creativity Save a Small Town?
From: Rendered
Caption: The view looking west down Wisconsin Ave. in Tieton, WA. , Credit: Photo by Phoebe Flanigan
How a detour, a patch of goathead thorns, and a flat tire changed one guy's life, and brought an economic boost to a sleepy, little town in rural W...

Bought by WMMT, KALW, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 20:03
  • Purchases: 3
Low Carbon Cows
From: Minnie Sagar
Caption: Fenwood Ranch, Credit: Minnie Sagar
This feature looks at the greening of Prather Ranch, a sustainable cattle hay and farming operation in Northern California. Through a partnership ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2013
  • Length: 10:25
How Green Entrepreneurs are Transforming Rural Communities
From: Green Connections Radio
Series: Green Connections Radio
Caption: Aneri Patel of UN Foundation Sustainable Energy for All
Wow are these stories great! Listen to Aneri Patel of the UN Sustainable Energy for All Initiative tell host Joan Michelson about the innovative s...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 18:48
Harold Wright: Five generations on once-tobacco land
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Harold Wright is the third generation farming on land his grandfather bought in the 1900's. His children and grandchildren farm with him. It was on...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Young Farmers Sustainable Agriculture Tool Lending Library
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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This is the story of the incredible project: sustainable agriculture tool lending library. Led by farmer couple George (self-declared rap listening...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 2
Horse Collar Farm: many generations on one farm & new project of free-range poultry
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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This story is about Shannon Roberts. He lives in Western North Carolina and runs Horse Collar Farm. His family has farmed the same land for five ge...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
Purple Sweet Potatoes in North Carolina
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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A story of the two men who run Stokes County's Saura Pride Purple Sweet Potato LLC and how these sweet potatoes are saving tobacco farmers in the c...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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The Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative is based out of Moore County. The mission is to meet local food needs with local food and that happens, in ...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
New Town Farms, Poultry-processing facility
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Sammy Koenigsberg lives in Waxhaw, North Carolina and runs New Town Farms with the help of his family. Sammy built a poultry processing facility on...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 1
Piedmont Local Foods: love & success between farmers, consumers, and the internet
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Piedmont Local Food is a regional food/farmer project involving multiple counties, connecting farmers directly to consumers with the internet. A st...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
OakMoon Farm & Creamery, Agritourism
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Cynthia Sharpe and Dwain Swing run OakMoon Farm & Creamery in Bakersville, North Carolina. They've increased the agri-tourism aspect of their farm,...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
Transitioning 40 acres of tobacco land to organic vegetables
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Matthew Garrett's a 24-year-old farmer, pretty much single-handedly transitioning a 40 acre tobacco farm to organic produce. He's in the second yea...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
Kay Doby & her meat goats
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Kay Doby, is a fourth generation farmer raised on tobacco land. Once a contract poultry grower, she now raises meat goats in her empty chicken hous...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
Growing Pomegranates in North Carolina
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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John Shaw plans to be the first commercial pomegranate grower in North Carolina. He has over 300 pomegranate trees. He has also planted 250 apple t...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:55
Hmong Farmer Jefferson Herr, Year-round heated Greenhouse project
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Meet Jefferson Herr. With his family, Jefferson runs Herr Flower Farm in Vale, North Carolina. Flower farming has become very common in Hmong commu...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Goat Lady CSA
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Steve Tate runs the Goat Lady Dairy in Climax, North Carolina. Last year was the first year of the farm's CSA. Steve learned that he grew way too m...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
Firefly Farm, Multi-purpose Barn
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Elizabeth Gibbs and Scott Paquin run Firefly Farm in Burnsville, North Carolina. They're building a multi-purpose barn which will house hay for the...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
The American Prawn Cooperative
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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The American Prawn Cooperative (APC) is "writing the book on the prawn industry." The APC is based in Greene County, North Carolina, and Greene Cou...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
Farmer Ben Haines, Project Portable Organic Feedmill
From: Rural Advancement Radio
Caption: Ben Haines & his cow
Meet Ben Haines, of Looking Back Farm, in eastern North Carolina. Ben and his father have been farming organically for more than twenty years. Most...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 1