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Radio
Title
Julie and the Snails
Year
2009
In Cobscook Bay, the snail population is going away, which risks the community's way of life. Alix Blair highlights how Julie Keene is attempting to fight to save the snails and the harvesting community.
Type
Radio
Title
Smells Like Money, To Me
Year
2003
Zac Barr highlights the work of sea cucumber harvesters and processors, and discusses how the business brings in good money for the workers and fishermen. Barr also speaks on the Hispanic community that works for the Cherry Point plant.
Type
Radio
Title
Recipes for Seaweed, Recipes for Peace
Year
2003
Chris Korzen highlights the work and life of Larch Hanson, the owner of a seaweed harvesting company. Hanson discusses his work, family, and spirituality.
Type
Radio
Title
Still Rooted In Potatoes
Year
2013
The population in Aroostook County has declined within recent years, which has caused family potato farms to go away. Julie Rawe documents how potato farming is still important in Aroostook County, and speaks to Gaylen Flewelling about keeping the harvest tradition alive.
Type
Radio
Title
Mushroom Fever
Year
2009
As a forager, Evan Strusinski goes through the wilds of Maine to find mushrooms. Strusinski recounts his entry into foraging, his love for mushrooms, and the frustrations or delight he encounters at times while hunting.
Type
Radio
Title
Hunting for the Hungry
Year
2007
Phoebe Judge highlights the charity that hunters perform for Sportsmen Against Hunger, where meatcutters donate meat from wild game. Judge speaks to meatcutters about donating meat and how this helps with the difficulty of finding meat for the food shelters.
Type
Radio
Title
Never Ending Chase: Looking For Mother Bear & Cubs
Year
2011
In Maine, hunters are permitted to only kill a specific number of bears during the hunting season, a number determined by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Joe Rosenberg documents the work that Maine's Black Bear Monitoring Team does in order to count the number of new-born cubs in the wild.
Type
Radio
Title
The Hickory Tree Wild Animal Farm
Year
2015
Growing up in Georgetown, Massachusetts, Joan Llorente lived on a zoo with various exotic animals. Ursula Chodosh speaks to Llorente about her experiences living on the zoo, and how her photographs allow her to relive her memories.
Type
Radio
Title
Inmates Welcome
Year
May 4th, 2018
Downeast Correctional Facility is the minimum security prison in Machiasport, a small fishing town in Maine. Here, locals don't fear inmates; they depend on them.
Type
Radio
Title
Just A Sample: Questions Surface About Brain Harvesting in Maine
Year
2011
Following the death of her husband, Anne Murray Mozingo was asked by Stanley Medical Research Institute if they could use a part of her husbands brain for research. Katrina Roi investigates how the institute took more than they asked for, and the legal debate Mozingo became involved with regarding tissue donation.
Type
Radio
Title
Potato Roots
Year
2018
Fifteen-year-old Maddie Buzza has an unusual job: for three weeks every fall, she works on a farm picking potatoes. It's a generations-old tradition in Maine's Aroostook County known as harvest break. But in the potato-centric town of Presque Isle, there's uncertainty about this tradition's future.
Type
Radio
Title
Recipe for radical rest (serves 3)
Year
2021
Heather Flor is a Peruvian-American farmer and artist who uses rest as a radical tool. Heather’s mother, María Rosita, and her four-year old nephew, Ediercito, do too.
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