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Tue 12/04/2007 |
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Luis Sierra & Rory O'Dwyer & Tianna DuPont |
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Children are uniquely senstiive to pesticide and other environmental exposure. Studies by Dr Asa Bradman and the Children's Environemental Health Center as part of the National Children's Health Study found siginificant levels of pesticide on the clothes, and dust of farmer worker children. Another study found that DDT buildup in mother's systems transfered to their children. Tianna talks to Dr. Bradman about his work with the Center and some of his findings.
Host Emeritus Kendra Johnson is back to talk to Roosevelt Tarlesson, an organic grower in the Capay, as part of our new series, Exploring the Capay. Roosevelt shares his experiences as an immigrant farmer in California and describes the process of securing his land in Guinda.
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Tue 11/27/2007 |
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Luis Sierra & Rory O'Dwyer & Tianna DuPont |
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Jerry Miller of Farmersonly.com, the online dating website for farmers and ranchers, tells us about why farmers have special dating needs and shares some success stories with Rory. Tianna talks to the UCD chapter of Engineers Without Borders about their current and past projects in Uganda.
Plus news about the EPA's recent rullng on methyl iodide.
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Tue 11/20/2007 |
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Luis Sierra & Rory O'Dwyer & Tianna DuPont |
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Rory O'Dwyer and host emeritus Kendra Johnson talk to Luis Sierra about his recent work on a study of CA growers who drop their Organic certification. Luis shares some of the reasons why the dropout rate is so high and what can be done about it.
Other goodies: more on the Farm Bill, an update to last week's show on ATTRA's funding, and an on-air tasting and recipe discussion of persimmon cookies.
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Tue 11/13/2007 |
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Luis Sierra & Rory O'Dwyer & Tianna DuPont |
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Rory O'Dwyer and Rex Dufour talk about ATTRA, the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service, and the recent funding cuts they've experienced. Tianna Dupont talks to Alan Forkey from the National Resource Conservation Service and Sid Staunton, an innovative farmer from Tulelake, about a Conservation Innovation Grants program called the Walking Wetlands Project. The Walking Wetlands project is a partnership between local farmers and agencies including the NRCS National Resource Conservation Service to preserve the economic viability of their farms while increasing access to wildlife habitat for migrating water fowl. As part of the walking wetlands project cropland is flooded on a seasonal basis. Flooding provides habitat to water fowl and helps farmers improve soil quality and manage pests and disease.
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Tue 11/06/2007 |
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Luis Sierra & Rory O'Dwyer & Tianna DuPont |
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Dori Stone and Tianna Dupont discuss Dori's experiences traveling in Mexico with Food First, the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
Rory does a quick run down of the Farm Bill currently in the Senate.
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Tue 10/30/2007 |
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Luis Sierra & Rory O'Dwyer & Tianna DuPont |
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Tianna Dupont talks to Katharina Ullmann, California Pollinator Conservation Coordinator from the Xerces Invertebrate Conservation Society about the importance of native bees. The European honey bee is the most important single crop pollinator in the United States. However, the mysterious colony collapse as well as diseases, parasitic mites, and Africanized bees disorder are an increasing problem in honey bee hives and worrying farmers who depend on them. Many scientists and farmers believe we may need to pay more attention to native bees as honey bees decline. Katharina will explain the importance of native bees and how we can create habitats to encourage more beneficial bees.
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Tue 10/23/2007 |
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Luis Sierra & Rory O'Dwyer & Tianna DuPont |
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Tianna Dupont talks to Michele Lieberman of OBUGS, a garden-based education non-profit in Oakland, about their gardens and the community development aspect of their project.
www.obugs.org Susana de Anda of the Community Water Center gives us a preview of this week's upcoming panel, Immigrant and Refugee Leadership and Environmental Justice. The panel is part of the campus book discussion around The Devil's Highway.
www.communitywatercenter.org
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Tue 10/16/2007 |
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Luis Sierra & Rory O'Dwyer & Tianna DuPont |
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Lloyd Johnson, a local grower, talks to Tianna Dupont about his farm and the crops he grows, how he got his start farming and the realities of being a small farmer. Luis Sierra interviews Francisco Dominguez, a Sacramento-based photographer and art educator, about his work. Dominguez's exhibit The Immigrants' Rights Movement is currently on display at Shields Library as part of the Devil's Highway Campus Book Project.
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Tue 10/09/2007 |
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Luis Sierra & Rory O'Dwyer & Tianna DuPont |
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The Medfly Show! Rory and Tianna give a news brief on the Medfly situation in Dixon. They interview Jeri Seifert of the Silveyville Christmas Tree and Pumpkin Farm. Jeri talks about their PYO pumpkin and CYO Christmas tree operation and the effect of the quarantine on their farm. Next Rory and Tianna talk to Molly Bloom, CSA Manager at Eatwell Farm. Molly describes how Eatwell is finding creative ways to deal with the quarantine's restrictions.
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