A few careers ago when I worked at a children's museum, I attended a conference in Indianapolis. The children's museum there had the most square footage in t...

Last week, while trekking back and forth between the city and the Catskills, I tuned in automatically to NPR and landed on the NPR Ted Radio Hour. Cool. It w...

Thanks for your amazing podcast recommendations, readers! Now I find I am writing my blog, cleaning stalls and weeding and trimming goat hooves with my earbu...

Public radio keeps me company. Sometimes I think I’d like to invite Joshua Johnson, the host of 1A, to dinner. I would bring together a small group of friend...

Ever wonder how a farm really works? I do. Ever meet a farmer who didn't fascinate you? I haven't. Ever think about what's really in the Farm Bill? I have. I...

This morning, sandwiched between NPR's Morning Editionand Democracy Now, I joined J. N. Urbanski on her biweekly local hour of The Economy Of... radio show t...

Farm to table. Farm to fork. Fork to mouth. Somewhere between my childhood and today, we put down the Cheez Wiz and picked up the organic rainbow chard. We u...

I like words. Sometimes a familiar word becomes unexpectedly unfamiliar when you are pressed in some way to unpack its history. I have books on etymology -- ...