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Young, Arizona

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Young-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 944.9KB)It’s just a small town of about 500 people. You’ve driven through bunches of them. But you probably have not…

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Buckeye, Arizona

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Buckeye-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)The city of Buckeye, Arizona was a small farming community for much of its life. That’s not so today. The…

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Charles Poston’s Butte

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Charles-Poston-Butte-Arizona.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.9KB)On the north edge of Florence, AZ you’ll find a small outcropping once known as Primrose Hill. Today there is…

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Skydiving to Food

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Mike-McKenzie-Lucky-Nickel-Ranch-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 943.3KB)If you have trouble finding the Lucky Nickel Ranch, just look up. Wherever you see the skydivers floating to the…

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Making a Living on 40 Acres

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Mike-McKenzie-Lucky-Nickel-Ranch-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.8KB)Some people might say you can’t make a living on a forty acre farm. Michael McKenzie is out to prove…

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The Lucky Nickel Ranch

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Mike-McKenzie-Lucky-Nickel-Ranch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.0KB)California produce growers rely heavily on hand labor to tend their crops. For Michael McKenzie, that labor has come from…

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A Florence, Arizona Prison

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Florence-Prison.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.1KB)Arizona did not become a state until 1912, so for several decades of it’s existence, it had a territorial prison…

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Yuma Prison

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Yuma-Prison.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.2KB)Most high schools hope to turn out classes of top notch students. This school consistently produces a new crop of…

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Raising Boys to Be Men

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 948.2KB)The Bible’s parable of the prodigal son shares the story of a wayward son that comes home to a father,…

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Arivaca Boys Ranch

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)The Arivaca ranch has been breaking horses since the late 1800s. They’re still breaking horses, but today the horses are…

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A Cattle Ranch for Boys

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/05/Arivaca-Boys-Ranch-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 949.6KB)For over a century, this ranch near Arizona’s border with Mexico has raised thousands of head of cattle, herded by…

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Date Farming

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Date-Farming-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.8KB)Some farmers need expensive, high tech equipment to harvest their crops. This crop requires a very low-tech method of harvest,…

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Farming the Trees

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Date-Farming-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.6KB)David’s farm is just 2 ½ acres in size…but that does not mean he’s not busy. In fact, the crop…

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Raising Cattle in the Heat

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/McElhaney-Cattle-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.3KB)Angus Brown is used to dealing with 120 plus degree heat and three inches of rain a year. It’s a…

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The McElhaney Cattle Company

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/09Mar10-McElhaney-Cattle-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Along Interstate 8 in Southwestern Arizona, you can find one of the largest cattle operations in the nation. It’s called…

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When Life Gives You Lemons…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Spencer-Citrus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.1KB)When life throws you a lemon, you make lemonade. Mark certainly has plenty of lemons, but he doesn’t have to…

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A Citrus Family Tradition

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Spencer-Citrus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.3KB)You’ve probably bought their fruit and not even realized it. This is a family-owned citrus packer that grows, packs, markets…

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Sunset Volcano Crater National Monument

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Sunset-Volcano.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Although it’s been about a millennium since this place rumbled to life, the mountain still speaks of the event that…

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