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Foundational Women of Wine
Growing and making a great life “The nurturing instinct of women brings a new perspective and quality to the wine industry. Our attention to detail, patience and emotional stamina coincide well with the painstaking winemaking process. Women are creators and their...
Sustainability Now! Sunday, February 5th, 5-6 PM: What’s a CAP? And what does it do? With Rachel Kippen
What’s a CAP? And what does it do? With Rachel Kippen On Sustainability Now! Sunday, February 5th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Rachel Kippen about city and county “climate action plans.” A CAP lays out a...
Ann McKenzie – Segment 9 Trees
Ann McKenzie shares her concern about cutting trees.
Our Community Reads
Gale Farthing, Denise Ward, and host discuss Our Community Reads, a program of the Friends of the Aptos Library, in which the communityselects a book and comes together for a series of related events. These events are presented inassociation with 4 other Friends of...
Accrediting the San Lorenzo Levee With Environmental Skillfulness
Christine Barrington interviews local river stewards about the San Lorenzo River Levee, which is undergoing a stringent accreditation process that requires vegetation removal and ground squirrel population reduction. Environmental groups are concerned that the...
The Good Greenhouse
Steven E. Popp describes the benefits of growing plants under glass and explores the commercial greenhouses we see in the local landscape and also the small ones in backyards.
Rabbi Paula Marcus on Ken Burns’ Holocaust series
January 27th is international Holocaust remembrance day. Rabbi Paula Marcus of Temple Beth El, in conjunction with the Santa Cruz Public Libraries is hosting a film showing and discussion on January 26th at the Capitola Public Library to explore the impact of the Ken...
Tom Hogye on the San Lorenzo River, its legacy steelhead and salmon fisheries, water quality, and how we can restore river health
Tom Hogye is President Emeritus, former Conservation Chair and Programs Chair for Santa Cruz Fly Fishing, where he’s spent 30 years fighting and working to promote sustainable fisheries management, the restoration and preservation of California Anadromous...
Be WISE with Science on Tap
Sometimes it feels like UC Santa Cruz is up there on the hill, separated from the community…except on the last Wednesday of the month. That’s when UC scientists come to town for “Science on Tap,” welcoming one and all to accessible talks about cutting edge science...
Pruning time for roses is here
Join Joe Truskot and Steven E. Popp, hosts of KSQD's In The Garden for their January 14, 2023 show on the basics of pruning. You'll learn four reasons why it's important to prune and also the four "D's" of pruning. Plus inside information on getting more and bigger...