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Sprouts
Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
This week on Sprouts, we present a journey through New Mexican agriculture that offers an engaging and informative look at farmers in a desert landscape, and at how their individual farming styles reflect their personal values, including: modern industrial farming, centuries-old collective water-distribution organizations, ancient Navajo corn customs and semi-urban organic farming.
Featured speakers/guests:
Farmers in the New Mexico desert landscape: Lorenzo Candelaria and his employee, Travis McKenzie, at Cornelio Candelaria Organics. Desiree Deschenie and Joe Ben Jr. from the Navajo Nation. Teodoro Trujillo and his daughter Pilar Trujillo.
Credits:
Produced by members of Terrascope Radio, a radio production class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. Teacher: Ari W Epstein.
Music by: “The Wild West” by Derek & Brandon Fiechter, “Dream Flight” by Jan Michael DeRuyter, “November 11” by Clem Leek, “Always Summer” by Adrian Johnston, “Maria and the Violin’s String” by Ashram, “Amore Mio” by Roman Street, “Burleson, TX” by Clem Leek, “Apparatus” by Hypermagic, and flute music performed for us by Travis McKenzie, one of the farmers featured in our program.
