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Fermentation Festival Organizers share food and the road to Stinkfest

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
  The 10th annual Portland Fermentation Festival comes to town this Thursday, October 10th. Festival organizers (and self-proclaimed "Stinkfest Queens") Liz Crain, Heidi Nestler, and Claudia Lucero talk with us live in-studio about the fermentation process, creating a fest... Read more

06 TRIPP-P 6Sep2019

Airs at: Fri, 09/13/2019 at 4:30pm - Thu, 09/30/2021 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
Join the hosts, as we chat about a POT-pourri of Cannabis related topics and headlines. Including: a protest agaisnt a Portland pot shop, strain names, social impact in the history of the plant, a recent Washington State ganja heist, black-market vape cartidges causing dea... Read more

Interview with Attorney of Columbia Riverkeepers

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Miles Johnson is the senior attorney at the non-profit organization—Columbia Riverkeepers. He spoke with KBOO’s  Imara Moore on the different issues they’re facing and how to become involved. Read more

Buscando America on 06/04/19

Airs at: Tue, 06/04/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Paro docente y represión en Chile. El Colegio de Profesores de Chile pide el fin de la deuda educativa y se opone a la exclusión de las asignaturas de Historia, Educación Física y Artes en las materias obligatorias para 3º y 4º medio. Tensa relación entre Estados Unidos y ... Read more

Amanda Oborne: Helping the "Ag of the Middle" Thrive

Airs at: Wed, 05/29/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Theresa Marquez, host of the Rootstock Radio podcast, sits down in the KBOO studios with Amanda Oborne - Vice President of Food & Farms at EcoTrust - to discuss her years of working at EcoTrust, as well as her interest in helping mid-sized local food producers find their wa... Read more

CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
“Voices for the Animals” host Dab Steadman talks with Dr. Laurie Marker , the founder & executive director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund…a non-profit organization dedicated to saving wild cheetahs and their habitats.   CCF  is the global leader in research and conservati... Read more

The Grand Food Bargain

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient products. Over time this system has encouraged us to know less and less about where our food comes from and permitted us to expect mo... Read more

Grain by Grain

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain. Little did he know, that grain would change his life. Years later, after finishing a PhD in plant biochemistry, Bob began experimenting with organic wheat on his family’s farm ... Read more

POWfest and Red White & Black

Airs at: Thu, 03/28/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Nora Colie of the Portland Oregon Women's Film Fest joins us in the studio to preview this year's POWfest, along with filmmakers Marne Lucas (Haute Flash) and Aubrey Peeples (Decadeless). We're also joined by actor/director Jerry Bell Jr, whose documentary Red White & B... Read more

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

Airs at: Fri, 03/29/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Today on Between the Covers, Suzanne LaGrande interviews science writer, lecturer and author Thomas Hager, discussing his newly published book, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine   Behind every landmark drug is a story. It coul... Read more