Category: Arizona
A High School of Criminals
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/18Mar19-Yuma-Territorial-Prison.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most high school’s hope to turn out classes of top notch students. This school consistently produces a new crop of…
A Crop Where You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Heights
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/27Feb19-Yuma-Date-Farmer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Some farmers need expensive, high tech equipment to harvest their crops. This crop requires a very low-tech method of harvest…but…
A Most Unusual Crop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/26Feb19-Yuma-Date-Farmer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)David’s farm is just 2 ½ acres in size…but that does not mean he’s not busy. In fact, the crop…
When Life Throws You Lemons
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/08Feb19-Spencer-Citrus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When life throws you a lemon, you make lemonade. Mark certainly has plenty of lemons…but he doesn’t have to make…
A Citrus Packer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/07Feb19-Spencer-Citrus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)You’ve probably bought their fruit and not even realized it. This is a family owned citurs packer that grows, packs,…
The University of Arizona’s Old Main
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/18Jan19-University-of-Arizona-Old-Main.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you walk across the center of this large university campus as I did, you’ll find a wide, permanent line…
When Pigs and Cows are ‘New’
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/17Jan19-Goodyear-Arizona-FFA.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine a school teaching agriculture in a place where few students have seen a farm animal. It’s a unique setting…
KINEKS
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/16Jan19-Jeffrey-Thimgan-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called “KINEKS.” It’s an acronym for positive personal characteristics each of us should possess and it’s the name of…
A Young Man of Influence
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/01/15Jan19-Jeffrey-Thimgan-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is probably someone in each of our lives that truly inspires us. Jeffrey Thimgan was one such young man. …
The Youngest Pilot of Her Kind
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/23Aug18-Arizona-Hot-Air-Balloon-Pilot-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)She’s the youngest pilot of her kind in the state of Arizona. If you think flying a plane is hard,…
Love and a Unique Hobby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/08/22Aug18-Arizona-Hot-Air-Balloon-Pilot-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You must admit, today’s story about how one couple met and fell in love is certainly unique. Now add the…
A Cemetery With a Guidebook
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/08May18-Tombstone-Arizona-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most cemeteries don’t offer a guidebook with brief stories of those you’ll find buried there, but this one does. And…
A Cemetery Opposite Arlington National
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/05/07May18-Tombstone-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This cemetery perhaps looks the exact opposite of Arlington National in D.C. The dusty landscape is mostly barren of lush…
A Place Named Tombstone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/04/04May18-Tombstone-Arizona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s a town named for what others thought would happen to its founder. It may sound like a strange way…
A Science Laboratory Open to the Public
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/04Apr18-Biosphere-II-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You don’t often this of a science laboratory as a tourist attraction. While it wasn’t built for that purpose, it…
They Call It Biosphere 2
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/03Apr18-Biosphere-II-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)For the folks who work here, we don’t live on earth but rather Biosphere 1. That’s why their facility is…
More Than Plants Under Glass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/03/02Apr18-Biosphere-II-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some might call it a greenhouse, but it’s far more that plants under glass. It’s a amazing facility doing cutting…
Crops For Those Who Aren’t Afraid of Heights
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/25Jan18-Date-Farming-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Some farmers need expensive, high tech equipment to harvest their crops. This crop requires a very low-tech method of harvest…but…
A Unique Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/01/24Jan18-Date-Farming-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)David’s farm is just 2 ½ acres in size…but that does not mean he’s not busy. In fact, the crop…
Pheasants In Arizona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2017/08/28Aug17-Arizona-Pheasant-Grower.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most people don’t go pheasant hunting in Phoenix, AZ. But if you to come to Molly’s farm, you will perhaps…
