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Hot Zone Falconry
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/14Aug14-Hot-Zone-Falconry-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Farmers might contract with someone to spray for weeds, fertilize the soil or harvest a crop. Some farmers even contract for…
The Problem with Birds for a Crop
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/13Aug14-Hot-Zone-Falconry-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many challenges to growing a crop. Poor weather, weeds, and disease are just a few. We often don’t think…
Artichokes
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/12Aug14-Artichokes-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some people turn up their nose at brussels sprouts. Where do artichokes fare in comparison? We head to a valley where…
A New Perspective on a Vegetable
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/08/11Aug14-Artichokes-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s hard to get kids to eat their vegetables. Now imagine the vegetable looks like a hand grenade and people…
Preparing for the Iditarod
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/08Aug14-Iditarod-Headquarters-Reddington.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Some sports not only require thousands of hours of training, they also require a hefty financial investment. For those who…
The Rights to a Famous Cowboy Song
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/07Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-4.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…
Home on the Range
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/06Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The song, “Home of the Range,” turns 140 years old this year. It might not sound like a big deal, but…
A Poem Stuffed in a Book
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/05Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Brewster Higley didn’t think much about the poem he’d written. In fact, he stuffed it in a book and hadn’t looked…
A Man and His Cabin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/04Aug14-Home-on-the-Range-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface, the story doesn’t seem too different from other settlers stories of the late 1800s. A man from Indiana…
Over the Falls in a Barrel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/01Aug14-Niagra-Falls-NY-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Don Lokor is asked many questions about Niagara Falls. He is considered the resident historian of the national landmark. The…
A Visit to Niagra Falls
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/31Jul14-Niagra-Falls-NY-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Before Yellowstone was ever made the first national park, Niagara Falls became the nation’s first state park. The thundering waters…
A Farmer on the Big Screen
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/30Jul14-Farmland-Movie.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Most farmers would not consider themselves movie stars. This Minnesota hog farmer certainly doesn’t. However, that hasn’t stopped him from…
Factors That Influence Vehichle Purchases
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/29Jul14-RAM-Truck-CEO-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)What influences someone to buy a new car? Is it great wealth, cool styles, or maybe a clunker that bit…
Automakers After the Great Recession
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/28Jul14-RAM-Truck-CEO-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s been dubbed the Great Recession…the economic downturn of that began in 2009. One of the industries hardest hit were…
A Hangar to Park a Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/25Jul14-Frank-Phillips-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)When Frank bought a plane he needed a hangar in which to park it. Soon the plane wasn’t the only…
The Phillips Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/24Jul14-Frank-Phillips-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)The president of this oil company was looking for a place to entertain business leaders from the east coast and…
The Best Climate to Help Ease An Ailment
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/23Jul14-Pikes-Peak-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we may rely on the latest advancements in science and medicine to help cure disease. Of course, in the…
James’ Peak
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/22Jul14-Pikes-Peak-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ve perhaps never heard of James’ Peak. It more accurate to say you’ve heard of the mountain, but you simply…
A Landmark With a Name
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/21Jul14-Pikes-Peak-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)As Lewis and Clark headed west and north in 1803 to explore the newly acquire Louisiana Purchase, another explorer headed…
Going to Hell
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/07/18Jul14-Hell-Michigan.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We go to great lengths to gather the stories you here on this program…and this time we literally went to…
