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Episode 5: Growing Health: Plants as Food & Medicine
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: Trail Marker at United Plant Savers Sanctuary In Rutland, Ohio, Credit: Renee Wilde
Herbalism is seeing a huge rise in popularity, as more and more people turn to natural remedies to keep their bodies healthy. In this episode of Gr...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 17:38
2020-08-21 COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for our Food System
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Coronavirus outbreaks in food markets, food plants, and farmworker communities have impacted food access and put a spotlight on food insecurity. Fa...

Bought by WWNO, MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
200821: COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for our Food System, 8/21/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Coronavirus outbreaks in food markets, food plants, and farmworker communities have impacted food access and put a spotlight on food insecurity. Fa...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Manure-Covered Farmers and Other Acts of Powerline Protest
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Protest sign opposing the construction of the CC Powerline across farmland.
On March 5, 1978 in subzero temperatures, about 10,000 farmers marched across Pope County, Minn. in a staged funeral procession to mourn the death ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Fred Provenza - 368
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Fred Provenza discusses his book, "Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom."

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Farming and famine in Nigeria (2009 PRI/BBC The World)
From: Hechtech
Series: Nigeria-Niger Food Trilogy
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A generation ago, the African nation of Nigeria launched a plan to embrace modern farming. But today the country is

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 08:30
331-Space Salsa
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If Lunar and Martian Colonists are to have chips and salsa they will need grow their own tomatoes.

Bought by Radio Newark, KRWG, KMXT, KENW, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Food Sleuth Radio, Tao Orion Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that “invasive” species have historically served as a driving process of evolution? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietiti...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio Benny McLean Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Benny McLean has been working in the Florida citrus industry ever since he was 10 years old. Today he is production manager for Uncle Matt’s Organ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
The Beat: Connie Wanek - "Honey"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Duluth writer Connie Wanek is the author of three books, most recently "On Speaking Terms" from Copper Canyon Press. She has received several award...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
Coming Home
From: Vaska Trajkovska
Series: Voices From The Plot
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Every Friday, individuals who wish to connect with the land and garden communally are invited to attend PLOT 22's Garden Fridays. In this intimate...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 19:21
The Packing Shed
From: Vaska Trajkovska
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The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
The Beat : Linda Back McKay - "Chicken Without a Cause"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing director. She is widely published. Linda Back McKay is also a long time volunteer and ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Restoring The American Chestnut
From: Hal B Klein
Caption: American chestnut grove in Sewickley, PA. , Credit: Hal B. Klein
Those chestnuts "roasting on an open fire" in the iconic "Christmas Song" have a secret. They're European. The American chestnut was once a keysto...

Bought by KLCC and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: An essay from Robert Saxton about living in Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Robert Saxton
In the first of a series of essays, Robert Saxton reflects on perspective and some of the unique characteristics of living in northern Minnesota. I...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
Byran Crigler of Herbal Turtle Farms Talks About Sustainable Foods
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Owners of Herbal Turtle Farms: Kate Foerster with partner Bryan Crigler and son Ayden
Local farmer and President of The Winona Farmers Market, Bryan Crigler stops by to inform us on Community Supported Agriculture, the importance of ...

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2
Green Fingers Gather
From: Vaska Trajkovska
Series: Voices From The Plot
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Reflections on gardening, allotments, and community in a Garden Sunday event at Plot 22 - nature space, allotment garden, meeting circle, and learn...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Empire of Corn: From Cornucopia to Corporate Commodity
From: A World of Possibilities
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Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 4
Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with 4th generation family farmer, Eric Herm, and author of "Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth." Herm is transitioning his f...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Five Farms, Episode Five: Succession
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: David Pecusa, Third Mesa, Hopi Nation, Credit: Andrew Lewis
For each of the families of Five Farms, the question looms large: Who will take over the farm? Succession features the next generation --- the youn...

Bought by WCNY, WEKU, KFOK-LPFM, WRPI, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode Four: Harvest
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Jeff and Annie Main, Capay, Cal., Credit: Alix Lowrey Blair
Autumn is harvest time. That means Iowa corn and soybeans; fruit dried in the California sun; greens, beans, and potatoes; slaughtered hogs and bee...

Bought by WFAE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, KUNM, KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 28
Five Farms, Episode Three: Stewardship
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Sherry Hager, Colrain, Mass., Credit: Steve Schapiro
Stewardship focuses on the daily choices farming families make to preserve their land, water, and air --- the fundamentals of farming. During mid-s...

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, WEKU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode Two: Nurturing
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Eddie Wise, Whitakers, N.C., Credit: Tom Rankin
Early summer is a time of long days on the family farm, perfect for nurturing crops and animals as they approach the peak of growing season. Nurtur...

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, WEKU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Five Farms, Episode One: Planting
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Craig Griffieon of Ankeny, Iowa, Credit: Elena Rue
Spring planting on the family farm is the time of the annual gamble --- on the alchemies of nature, on the health of livestock, on future fall harv...

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGNU Community Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
MA-193 Food: What's Eating Me
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:26