Podcast: Play in new window | Download (70.9MB)Subscribe: RSS In this week’s Eco Report feature, part two of ‘Local Food Sovereignty Amidst Global Challenges’ from Eco Report EXTRA – our online sister show. The full program won Third Place for Best Radio Documentary Special of 2023 at the Society of Professional Journalists Awards in April. While the Indiana Legislature and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (69.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | More In this week’s Eco Report feature, Part One of “Local Food Sovereignty Amidst Global Challenges,” an episode of Eco Report EXTRA (E.R.X.) – our online sister show. The full program won Third Place for Best Radio Documentary Special of 2023 at the Society of Professional Journalists Awards in April. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:20 — 54.1MB)Subscribe: RSSWFHB Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze explores issues relating to local urban agriculture and government policy with Jami Scholl of Rezenience, a permaculture consultancy firm growing nutriceutical produce in Bloomington, Indiana. Roze and Scholl discuss new research and options for optimal health and nutrition, challenges for local food security, shortfalls …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis 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, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 54.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor our episode this month, we spoke with Ken Asmus, the founder of Oikos Nursery. From 1982 till earlier this year, Oikos was one of the most important sources of rare fruit trees and other non-commercial perennial food plants. Ken recently retired from the nursery business in …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:51 — 72.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor this episode, we interviewed urban farmers across Chicago, along with a mutual aid organization that stocks its sidewalk fridges with fresh produce from some of these same farms. Their work is not only meeting urgent needs, but is helping to sketch out a horizon for another …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 79.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | More The pawpaw is an incredible, temperate, semi-forgotten fruit. It’s existence is a real exception on many levels: it is the only member of a tropical genus to survive this far north in most of the continent; it is nutrient and protein rich beyond most fruit; and …
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