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San Francisco’s Mission District. It’s a neighborhood where Mark Zuckerberg now owns a home, and a place where an affluent, whiter population is di...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 06:23
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 09:50
We are no strangers to earthquakes here in the Bay Area. But there’s been nothing in recent memory to match the 9.0 quake that shook Japan on March...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 16:21
Sky-high rents, Google buses and gentrification are all buzzwords around the Bay Area. But that is not the case in the city of Richmond. With unemp...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:59
Thanks to a quirk of history — and a love of bananas — New Orleans has had a Honduran population for more than a century. But that population explo...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 12:42
Ask someone from out of state to describe Minnesota and you’ll probably hear a lot of “Minnesota Nice,” "uff dah’s" and "you betcha’s." Scandinavia...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
A vibrant mural announces Happy Lot Farm and Garden to visitors and anyone passing by. A greenhouse stands in the middle of the lot, and an improvi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:45
Just over the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, a few miles from Muir Woods, lies Muir Beach. The beautiful and peaceful waterfront is a favorite...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 06:13
It’s a sunny, windy afternoon in Richmond, and Adam Boisvert is out in a garden.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:35
Military food has come a long way since the canned rations of World War I. However, has the overall quality of nourishment or taste necessarily imp...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
The introduction of the “Bird’s Nest” (??) in Beijing, China for the 2008 Olympics wowed the world with its brilliance. This icon, on a monumental...
- Added: Aug 11, 2014
- Length: 26:26
Social drinking, instead of drinking to simply survive, has been around for about 8000 years. Atlanta’s place in the beverage business, and in Ame...
- Added: Aug 07, 2014
- Length: 24:05
The railroad, the Olympics, Coca-Cola and CNN, are all huge contributors to the development and prowess of Atlanta as a business center and to its ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 19:26
San Franciscans love to garden, but a backyard is hard to come by if you live in an apartment. And the 36 city-operated community gardens have wait...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 07:25
Albeit a centerpiece both in form and function, the cuisine at our favorite restaurant is just plain food if not paired with conversation, company,...
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 28:35
Auburn Avenue was at one time known as Wheat Street. In 1893, a group of white citizens went to the city council and petitioned to change the name...
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 23:40
In San Francisco’s Tenderloin, getting healthy fare often isn’t an option. Without a full service grocery store in the neighborhood, residents rely...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Vivian Howard is the chef at Chef and the Farmer in the small Eastern North Carolina town of Kinston. She also "co-stars" with her husband Ben Knig...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 2
When you imagine the built environment, the places that shape a city's culture, you probably think about stadiums and parks, skyscrapers and museum...
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 15:06
Hunter Lewis is the executive editor at Southern Living magazine. Before that, he had stints at the publications Bon Appetit and Saveur. In this ep...
Bought by Troy Public Radio
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 23:04
- Purchases: 1
In the previous episode, we met Sean Kelley, a writer who set out to raise a couple of pigs for the purpose of butchering them himself. He was so a...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Jun 08, 2014
- Length: 15:30
- Purchases: 2
Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio
- Added: May 24, 2014
- Length: 13:29
- Purchases: 2
Just north of Jack London Square, inside Oakland’s oldest building, you’ll find one of the East Bay’s most celebrated soul food eateries. Even more...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:07
