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The Munger Moss

It’s called the Munger Moss.  What is it?  People have been asking that since the days of World War II…..

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Towosahgy

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Towosahgy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Many Midwestern cities can trace their beginnings for over 150 years or more. This one can go back 1000 years…..

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Big Oak Tree

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Big-Oak-Tree-State-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)The Mississippi River bottom lands stretch for hundreds of miles. It’s flat, fertile farmland producing a bounty of crops.  But…

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Posted in American Countryside food Podcast

Pollinition with Bees

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/22Mar11-Tom-Turpin-Honey-Bees-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.8KB)Whether it’s flowers, fruits or vegetables, most rely on insects to pollinate and produce their bounty. Could their pollination be…

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Bee Populations

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Tom-Turpin-Honey-Bees-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)You may have heard bee populations are declining.  What’s behind it and should we be concerned?

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Tippecanoe, Indiana

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Tippecanoe-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Perhaps you’ve heard the Presidential slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.”  Today’s feature is literally at Tippecanoe.  What is it and…

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Posted in American Countryside Florida Podcast World War II

Preserving the SS American Victory

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Victory-Ships-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)During the 1940s, 534 of these ships existed. Today only three sail the waters. Their past and present are a…

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A New Class of Ships

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Victory-Ships-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)During the first half of World War II, the United States used vessels called Liberty Ships to haul cargo and…

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Building Victory Ships

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Victory-Ships-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine a ship over a football field and a half long and sixty-two feet wide.  Now imagine you need to…

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Florida’s Holocaust Museum

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Florida-Holocaust-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you happen to visit the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, you should take time to visit a well done site called…

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The Kingsley Plantation

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Kingsley-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 942.0KB)The story of Kingsley Plantation is fascinating, and when you factor in the life’s journey of the landowner’s wife, it…

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Posted in American Countryside Florida food Podcast

A Florida Strawberry Festival

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Florida-Strawberries-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In the 1930’s, citizens of Plant City, Florida began a strawberry festival.  The annual event continues today. Although it’s mostly…

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A High Value Crop Grown Right in the Middle of Town

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Florida-Strawberries-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine attempting to grow a high value crop in the middle of one of America’s largest cities.  That’s exactly what…

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The Secret to Growing Great Strawberries

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/08Mar11-Florida-Strawberries.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.4MB)What does it take to grow great strawberries? A good railroad of course. That’s one of the reasons many of…

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Farming a Different Way

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Gary-Zimmer-Biological-Farming-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)In agriculture there is sometimes infighting between groups that support organic or conventional production methods. The two do not have…

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Biological Farming

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Gary-Zimmer-Biological-Farming.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Farmers are always looking for ways to do more with less. Gary Zimmer may just be the man who can…

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Senator, Do You Have No Decency?

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/02Mar11-Joseph-McCarthy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Joseph Welch said what many Americans were thinking. During a US Senate hearing on June 9th, 1954 he said, “Senator,…

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An Up and Coming Senator

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/01Mar11-Joseph-McCarthy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)This Wisconsin senator was a rising star in the state; a man who made history by becoming one of the…

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Arivaca Boys Ranch

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/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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Attending a Civil War Reunion

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/02Oct09-Civil-War-Reunion-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)75 years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the veterans of the Civil War were still coming here for reunions……

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