Tag Archives: Food

This is the second week of partnership between WFHB’s Youth Radio, Kid City and The Boys and Girls Clubs of Bloomington called “Youth Radio Summer Camp”. The idea behind the program was to encourage campers to participate in some creative activities that gave them a crash course in all the things they could potentially do if they got involved in …

In this episode of Partisan Gardens, we explore the competing utopias at stake in the struggle to stop Cop City in Atlanta. Cop City is itself a grim utopia, a vision concocted by cops and politicians of a depopulated, fake city that will actually bend to their will.  On the other side are the diverse utopian dreams of the movement …

Earlier this week, Keith LaMar went on hunger strike at the Ohio State Penitentiary.  He has faced escalating harassment from administrators and guards as his execution this fall looms and as solidarity momentum builds on the outside.  This harassment extends to new arbitrary rules preventing him from wearing spiritually-significant jewelry and systematic interruptions during visits.  Keith is on death row …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, February 13th, 2023. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks with Dr. Joel Fuhrman, best selling author and renowned physician specializing in preventative nutrition and natural healing. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Activate – narratives from people making positive change …

For this episode, we share a candid and generative conversation between Kay and Sarah, shortly after World’s End, Sarah’s farm, hosted a week long group retreat. They share reflections on that experience, and the role of farms in hosting urban visitors. They touch on the strange idea of owning the land, reflecting on the concept of ownership, and how that …

Earlier this spring, people across the eastern half of the US organized neighborhood planting projects in order to widely distribute and plant food-bearing trees. Their motivations are diverse, and we’ll hear from a range of them in this episode, but these tree-planters are often hoping to build a more verdant, autonomous, resilient, common life in the face of growing climate …

This month’s Partisan Gardens is all about the Farmer’s Almanac, specifically the 2022 Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac. Our listeners are probably familiar with the old farmer’s almanac, with its planting charts, weather forecasts and random tidbits of folksy wisdom and jokes. It’s an artifact of an earlier time, probably not the first place our listeners go to decide what to plant …

Locutora, Minerva Sosa, entrevista a invitada para hablar sobre sus experiencias viviendo en Bloomington. Además, nos habla sobre sus experiencias participando en eventos comunitarios de la ciudad de Bloomington! Host, Minerva Sosa, interviews a guest to talk about her experiences living in Bloomington. In addition, she tells us about her experiences participating in community events in the city of Bloomington!

Locutoras, Minerva Sosa y Josefa Madrigal, entrevistan a miembros de la comunidad Latina sobre sus experiencias participando en el Festival Internacional de Artes y Comida de la ciudad de Bloomington! Hosts, Minerva Sosa and Josefa Madrigal, interview members our Latino community about their experiences participating in the City of Bloomington International Food and Arts Festival!

This month, we’re excited to share our conversation with David Holmgren, author of the recent RetroSuburbia and co-author of the landmark 1978 book, Permaculture One, with Bill Mollison, which launched the international permaculture movement.  Drawing on permaculture principles of recognizing existing patterns and incorporating them into design, Holmgren is calling for a bold and improvisational approach to the problem of …