Ep 048 Windmist Farm: There Can Be Only One (Scottish Cattle Breed). No, Wait – There’s Two! Three!
Send a text All of us can get focused on our preconceptions as representative of the whole, and since Scotland has some serious personality and history behind it, that country has generated its fair ...
3 Feb 202038min
Ep 047 Lee Spann: Attention Spann, That Is. And He Has It.
Send a text “Squirrel!” If you’ve seen Disney’s animated film, “Up,” then you realize the world of meaning behind what seems like a simple noun. It’s that tendency to get distracted by something ...
28 Jan 202049min
Ep 046 Dr. Purdy and the Case of the Conception Protection Projection Collection
Send a text We’re continuing the adventures in Colorado agriculture science with the USDA’s ARS, NAGP*. Confused? Don’t be. Dr. Phil Purdy, Physiologist extraordinaire, decodes any confusion that t...
20 Jan 202035min
Ep 045 Dr. Blackburn and the USDA's ARS Germplasm Vault: The Love Child of Matthew McConaughey and Brinks
Send a text Eggs and sperm and seeds and hair They’ll take ‘em all, collect with care They might be used when earth goes south Or critters die from hoof and mouth Or climate change or scary bugs Cuz n...
13 Jan 202040min
Ep 044 National Western Stock Show Pt 2: Go West, Young Man – But Stop in Denver, Please
Send a text It’s that time of year again – off to Colorado for the annual National Western Stock Show. Every January, the streets of downtown Denver ring with the shouts of cowboys and cowgirls, the ...
6 Jan 202018min
Ep 043 National Western Stock Show Pt 1: Cowboys and Longhorns and IYAK - Oh, My!
Send a text I've got me a hankerin’ that may be irrational I'm wanting to go back again to the National Western that is, and we've been there now twice But two times it seems aren't enough to suffice....
30 Dec 201934min
Ep 042 The Goose: I feel the need, the need for speed...flying into the Danger Zone. Christmas, that is.
Send a text It’s almost that time of year. Chilly air, crackling fire, and the holiday roast goose is on the table. Well, maybe up until the Cratchit dinner in Dickens, but not so much anymore here ...
23 Dec 201953min
Ep 041 Rankin the Nankins with Special Guest Elaine Shirley at Williamsburg. Tickets now!
Send a text We hope that our podcast you click in. As we talk of some cute little chickens. In Colonial times (Are you sick of these rhymes?) It’s Nankins this week that we’re pickin’. Join us thi...
16 Dec 201931min
