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Planting For a Bit Longer

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/13Jan15-Maui-Gold-Pineapple-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Gardeners and farmers are used to planting seed and then waiting in due time for their harvest. But for those…

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Hawaii’s Last Pineapple Farm

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/12Jan15-Maui-Gold-Pineapple-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)There once were thousands of acres in the Hawaiian islands devoted to growing pineapple. Much has changed over time. Today…

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The GMO Free Movement in Hawaii

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/09Jan15-Kauai-Farm-Bureau-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Many seed companies have research stations in locations that can grow multiple crops each year.  However, one of those locations…

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The Realities of Farming in Hawaii

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/08Jan15-Kauai-Farm-Bureau-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Many farmers must deal with conditions that are both hot and cold, wet and dry, tough and tougher.  So, on…

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Bananas from Kahuku Farms

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/07Jan15-Kahuka-Farms-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)The average American eats about 25 pounds of bananas each year.  It’s safe to say most of us can’t tell…

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Growing Food in Hawaii

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/06Jan15-Kahuka-Farms-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)American Countryside listeners recently had  a chance to tour agriculture in Hawaii.  One of the highlights was a farm growing…

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Thousand Foot Long Docks

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/05Jan15-Two-Harbors-Docks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are some of the largest boat docks you’ll ever see.  Not mere spots on a lake from which to…

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Best of 2014 – The Rights to a Cowboy Song

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/02Jan15-Best-of-2014-The-Rights-to-a-Cowboy-Song.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations.  But suddenly…

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Best of 2014 – Burning the White House

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/01Jan15-Best-of-2014-Burning-the-White-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It was an act that seemed unthinkable.  Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most…

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Best of 2014 – The Navajo Codetalker

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/31Dec14-Best-of-2014-Navajo-Codetalker.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When World War II began, many men here in Navajo country volunteered for the armed forces.  Some of those men…

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Best of 2014 – The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/30Dec14-Best-of-2014-Archduke-Ferdinand-Assassination.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I.  We may have…

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Best of 2014 – Feral Camels

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/29Dec14-Best-of-2014-Feral-Camels.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)American farmers and ranchers may have predators and feral animals that pose problems to their business.  The same can be…

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Best of 2014 – A Permanent Trip to Luckenbach

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/26Dec14-Best-of-2014-Luckenbach-Texas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:03 — 2.1MB)Hayden Whittington began driving to Luckenbach, Texas before most people had ever heard of it.  He remembers the days when…

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The Holiday Christmas Store

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/25Dec14-Holiday-Christmas-Store.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in…

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Twas The Night Before Christmas

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/24Dec14-Night-Before-Christmas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200…

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The 70th Anniversary of a Special Nativity Scene

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/23Dec14-Algona-POW-Nativity-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This year in Algona, IA, residents will celebrate the 70th anniversary of a very special Nativity scene.  It was a…

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A Nativity Scene On Display Year-Round

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/22Dec14-Algona-POW-Nativity-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)During the advent season, many families and churches will set up Nativity scenes.  They figures remind us of the birth…

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Escaping a POW Camp in the Midwest

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/19Dec14-Algona-POW-Camp-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If a soldier is taken as a prisoner of war, they may try to escape to freedom.  That was the…

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Enemy Soldiers Working the Fields of Home

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/18Dec14-Algona-POW-Camp-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine the pain of losing a son or daughter who was fighting in a war.  Now imagine hiring one of…

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A Shortage of Labor at Home During World War II

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/12/17Dec14-Algona-POW-Camp-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When young men went to fight in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, many communities were left with…

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