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North American plant

  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 10:20
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The vast landscapes of the southwest are to die for and every once in a while I capture one with my camera. More and more I remind myself to just t...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
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I concentrated on a few fall bloomers in the Aster family that have yellow flowers and I bet you thought of other species that should have been inc...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:31
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There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting!

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:23
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Food insecurity plagues much of the developing world. Tasmanian agriculture scientist Bruce French is intending to change this tragedy by catalogin...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Kentucky doctors are prescribing ancient medicine that is proven to reduce diet-related illnesses: fruits and vegetables!

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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A bee-saving plan in America's upper midwest.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
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Aldine, KRCL's Punk Rock Farmer, gets cooking with Diana Law and the Beacon Food Forest. Plus, Masima Film Festival, Craft Lake City, signs of spri...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:29
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Mexico City uses the concept of vertical gardening to transform their highway pillars into air-cleansing and people-pleasing monoliths.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
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Bee habitats atop bus stops in Holland are reviving bee, butterfly and other insect populations.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
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At the Chapultepec Botanical Gardens in Mexico City a new kind of foliage is taking over. The Future Forest, created by Danish artist Thomas Dambo,...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
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The Kids Crew talks with an indigenous farmer who runs a research lab blending tradition and modern agriculture, and we learn about school gardens....

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
A colony of bees miraculously survives the 2019 Notre Dame fire.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:18
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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...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Citizens wielding pry bars and thermometers turn parking lots into rain gardens and change city policy to favor green over grey.

Bought by WFHB, WFHB, KRZA, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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I think it’s fascinating that there are several species of winterfat found in Eurasia and Europe. That’s where the genus was first described by a G...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 05:43
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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
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I know that being in the moment or being here now is important, but I confess to spending a lot of time wanting to be there now and I’ll be happy t...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:03
Caption: The photo is mine and that’s Ms. Mesquitey along the San Pedro River. The bird song along that riparian corridor is unbelievable and we spent some time trying to identify certain calls and songs.
I guess I don’t have a whole lot more to add about this show. Well, I have been known to sing a little better than this.

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: The photo is mine of a white flower atop a branch of Fendlera. Around you and me in the borderlands, you find this tall stemmed woody shrub from 4,000’ to 7,000’ on rocky slopes. It usually done blooming come June, so there is still time to catch it in bl
I sure talk about a lot different flora and fauna. From three species of quail, to canyon wrens, to Yarrows spiny lizards, to bristlehead (Carphoch...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:30
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There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only one I haven’t seen i...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:07
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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
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The scientific name for jaguar is Panthera onca and these large wild felines range from Sonora, Mexico down to portions of central and South Americ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:23
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What are the keys to feeding the world sustainably? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview wi...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Ashara Ekundayo on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
Ashara Ekundayo has made big splashes developing urban gardens as well as developing community artist as the Chief Creative Officer at Impact Hub O...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 25:47