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The Organic Revolution: From Hippie to Hip to Scale
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 11
Caption: Gary Hirshberg, Credit: Frank Rogozienski
Though still small in the big picture, organic food has come all the way -- from hippie to hip to mainstream since the Sixties. But can organic foo...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
U Pick Blueberries
From: Marianne Gardner
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A community of pickers tell the story of this u pick blueberry patch.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
Planting For A Fall Harvest
From: Vermont Public
Series: Charlie's Garden Journal
Caption: A Fall Garden, Credit: Flickr/Gemma Grace
When you want fresh vegetables through the fall, you'll want to plant now. Charlie also explains why it's good to be merciless in the mid-summer ga...

Bought by WMNR and WMNR


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
High Desert Seafood? A Look at Idaho Freshwater Clams and Mussels
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Freshwater clams, Credit: Guy Hand
About 300 species of freshwater mollusks live in inland North America. For Native tribes, they were a dietary staple. In this episode of Edible Id...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Aug 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
Getting a Taste for Lavender
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Basket of Lavender, Credit: Guy Hand
Lavender is becoming more popular in cooking as lavender farming becomes more popular among small-scale Northwest farmers.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KISU, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 30, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Edible Flowers
From: Vermont Public
Series: Charlie's Garden Journal
Caption: Edible Flower Salad, Credit: LexnGer/Flickr
Charlie profiles edible flowers. There are many varieties to choose from that are good for salads, drinks, stir fries, soups and desserts. Charlie...

Bought by WMNR and WMNR


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Luring Americans Back to Fishing
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Fried fish at Fish and Game fish fry, Credit: Guy Hand
The nation lost around 5 million anglers from 1996 to 2006. Idaho fishing dropped by 28% during that same decade. That's why Idaho Fish and Game i...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KISU


  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fun with Foraging: Finding food in the mountains of Idaho
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Foraged foods from the mountains of Idaho, Credit: Guy Hand
Foraging fell out of favor a few thousand years ago—thanks to that invention called agriculture—but not everybody abandoned the impulse to forage. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KISU


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cicadas. Love 'em...hate 'em...eat 'em?
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: These cicadas were collected at night, shortly after they emerged, while their bodies were still soft and white. They were then frozen for storage. , Credit: Art Chimes
Billions of periodical cicadas have emerged over the past few weeks in more than a dozen states across the Southeast and Midwest. In part one of t...

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
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
Seeing the Connection Between Water & Food
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Water and food presentation at the College of Idaho, Credit: Guy Hand
We use vast amounts of water to grow food, but the consequences are often hard to see. One Idaho college class decided to take a look and they were...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KISU


  • Added: Jun 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Food and Forests: Reviving Diversity
From: A World of Possibilities
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Combining the newest techniques of sustainable agriculture with ancient practices of subsistence forest farming.

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KZYX, WRIR, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 7
A Year of Idaho Food Mid Season Update
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Tyler Korn enjoying a garden school carrot at Northside Elementary School in Sandpoint, Idaho., Credit: Michele Murphree
The Year of Idaho Food is nearing it’s halfway mark. A year long collaboration of volunteers, the Year of Idaho Food is designed to collect and cat...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KISU


  • Added: May 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ornamental Edibles
From: Vermont Public
Series: Charlie's Garden Journal
Caption: Siberian Honeyberry, Credit: Courtesy Oligator83 via Flickr
Expert Horticulturist Charlie Nardozzi explores varieties of shrubs and trees normally thought of as ornamental that also produce great fruits for ...

Bought by WMNR and WMNR


  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
City Slicker Farms changes landscape of West Oakland
From: KALW
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West Oakland is a community of about 24,000 residents, and about a quarter population living below the poverty level. It’s bordered on three sides ...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:45
The Gospel of Spring Greens
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Caption: Tim Sommer of Purple Sage Farms, Credit: Guy Hand
A look at the varied world of spring greens.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, and KISU


  • Added: May 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Food for Thought
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A radio drama/semi-romance built on sound gathered during a field trip to southwestern India. Two American travelers, brought by chance to a tiny I...

  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 22:19
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
The Right to Farm vs. the Public’s Right to Know
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Numerous state legislatures have proposed or passed bills to limit the public’s influence over agriculture. Nationwide, bills restrict access to ag...

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
What if the medicine itself were sweet?
From: KALW
Caption: Flickr photo by Peter Shanks. http://www.flickr.com/photos/botheredbybees/245215850/
A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down. But what if the medicine itself were sweet? People with allergies are especially anxious to find...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
Honey Bees In Flowering Buckwheat
From: Meg O'Shaughnessy
Caption: Garden Buckwheat Garvin Mesa, Credit: Meg O'Shaughnessy
This is the sound of hundreds of honeybees harvesting pollen from a small plot of flowering buckwheat during the summer of 2010 on Garvin Mesa outs...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 20:52
  • Purchases: 1

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