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Learning to Ride A…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Jed-Ward-Muni-Unicycle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many of us remember the struggle of learning to ride a bike as a kid.  Eventually we mastered it, and…

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A Lettuce Tour Ticket

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Yuma-Agriculture-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)What’s the hottest ticket in the nation?  There might be some music stars and sporting events near the top of…

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Agriculture in Yuma, Arizona

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/Yuma-Agriculture-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)This county enjoys the longest growing season in the country and it supplies most of the winter vegetables you’ll find…

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Oceanfront Property in Arizona

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)George Strait once sang that he had some oceanfront property in Arizona and if you’d buy that he’d throw the…

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A Ferry Crossing in the Desert

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Before bridges crossed rivers, communities often relied upon ferries to carry people and supplies. In some cases, those ferry operators…

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An Oasis in the Desert

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/10/Yuma-Arizona-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Yuma, Arizona is in the Sonora dessert. The annual average rainfall is about three inches per year. So it is…

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Undercover at the Sale Barn

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/Wilcox-Livestock-Market.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)Imagine a place of espionage where secret agents carry modified briefcases with hidden cameras capturing images from their reconnaissance missions….

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An Arizona Pheasant Farm

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/08/FFA-Pheasant-Production.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.4KB)Most people don’t go pheasant hunting in Phoenix, AZ. But if you to come to Molly’s farm, you will perhaps…

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Casa Grande

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Casa-Grande-Phoenix.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.9KB)Today skyscrapers in Phoenix tower above the city below. Roll back the clock six hundred years and it was this…

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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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