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Recent Episodes
Hopi farming: a 2000-year-long agriculture experiment
Hopi farmers must be doing something right: they have survived and grown their own food for hundreds of generations. We talk to Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson about their regenerative farming and cultural practices––and the challenges to maintaining them.
Surviving and thriving in N.M.—during crisis times and beyond
How do you improve county infrastructures and systems so that they serve 100% of the people–especially during times of crisis? We talk to authors-activists Dr. Katherine Ortega Courtney and Dominic Cappello about places in New Mexico that are working out exactly this question.
American Zion: Religion and rebellion on Western public lands
Cliven Bundy is a rancher who’s refused for decades to pay his grazing fees for using public lands. But where did his ideas about public lands come from? We talk to author Betsy Gaines Quammen about her new book.
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Award-winning radio host Mary-Charlotte Domandi partners with the Santa Fe New Mexican, the oldest newspaper in the West, to bring you in-depth interviews on subjects from politics to the arts to science and nature. MORE INFO»
As climate change collides with our industrial food system, we focus not on doom but instead on people who are developing practical, innovative solutions. MORE INFO»
Thought Huddle is a new podcast highlighting thinkers and doers who are devoted to creating meaningful impact. It explores ideas, tells stories, and helps make sense of our complicated and beautiful world. MORE INFO»
Radio Cafe
A program of in-depth, long-form conversations with journalists, activists, scientists, authors, artists, farmers and ranchers, and other deep thinkers.
Radio Cafe on the Santa Fe New Mexican covers a breadth of news and features from Santa Fe and beyond. Down to Earth is all about regenerative and sustainable agriculture, and their potential to transform our food system and our environment. ASU’s Thought Huddle is produced for Arizona State University, and explores big themes of universal interest.
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