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In this first week of March, we kick off Women’s History Month in conversation with one of the great critical thinkers and writers of our time, Reb...
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In one of our more flamboyant arboreal seasons of the year—when our charismatic woody megaflora of the Northern Hemisphere—the trees—are chorophyll...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the idea, design, ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Last week on Cultivating Place, we looked at Gardens and history through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden Hist...
- Added: Nov 03, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Hemp seeds were first introduced to North America by European colonists and were grown to produce everything from rope and canvas, to paper, paints...
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 21:33
Bonnie J Clarke is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of Gardens and Gar...
- Added: Jul 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Our expert, Dr. Gene Kritsky, has devoted a great deal of his professional life to the study of cicadas. But who studied them before him?
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 16:29
- Purchases: 1
A well-known fruit with a not-so-well-known history.
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 02:30
The number of Black-owned farms has drastically declined since the 1920s, and now make up less than two percent of total U.S. farmland. In this epi...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 21:23
- Purchases: 1
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
The Sweet Smell of Victory—How Gardeners Are Drawing on History to Help During the COVID-19 Pandemic
From: H2O RadioSeries: The Dirt: Agriculture, Food, and Water
With many people staying close to home during the coronavirus pandemic, gardening has become popular, specifically vegetable gardens. COVID-19 has...
- Added: Sep 08, 2020
- Length: 06:06
This week the Cultivating Place series on Healing Gardens dives into one of our most ancient healing plant allies – the Elder – its genus, its hist...
- Added: Feb 19, 2020
- Length: 59:00
The weather has been nice to The Rough Draft Diaries so we're heading outside yet again for this week's episode. We're at Woodlawn Cemetery and Arb...
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 06:16
Where did the term 420 come from? Money Matters details its history and host Marc Cuniberti finds out its closer to home then he thought.
- Added: Jun 02, 2018
- Length: 04:10
An interview with Venice Wiliams the executive director of Alice's Garden, an urban agriculture facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Added: Oct 23, 2017
- Length: 13:41
A community garden project at Barrett Brothers Park in north St. Louis prompts memories of the Barrett family, who came to Missouri as Irish famine...
- Added: May 28, 2017
- Length: 03:23
This novel intertwines the life of 18-year-old Victoria Jones, who is leaving the foster care system in contemporary California, with the medieval ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Mar 26, 2017
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
History of the Hartman Rock Garden; a roadside attraction in Springfield, Ohio that was nearly destroyed in the 90's and renovated by the Kohler Fo...
- Added: Jan 17, 2017
- Length: 05:33
Radio Curious discusses the history and evolution of wine with Glenn McGourty, the Winegrowing and Plant Science Advisor at the University of Calif...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 02:31:51
Grant Nelson tells us about the traveling sprinkler, once and currently used to water a residential lawn.
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 03:49
MN Reads welcomes author of "Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works", Atina Diffley. Her book is a story of the working land and how we live i...
- Added: Mar 22, 2015
- Length: 09:58
Andrea Martin of St. Paul joins Radio Gallery to share her passion for the paper arts. Martin recently showed some of her paper-cuts in the Women’s...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 1
The National Mall has long been considered "America's front yard." But for years, America's front yard has looked more like an abandoned lot with w...
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 05:49
Typically on Sidewalk Radio we choose dynamic topics that are in a state of flux. The BeltLine, The Clermont Hotel, The Art Show, as recent exampl...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 26:06
