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On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, takes a spring salad hike with George Barnett, author of the brand new book “Foraging Kentucky: An introduction to the edible plants, fungi, and tree crops of the Southeast” to be released by University Press of Kentucky on April 2, 2024 (http://www.thehungryforager.com). George is also the new Urban Agriculture Manager for Louisville Grows (http://louisvillegrows.org), where he is busy getting ready for this Saturday’s Cole Crops Sale and other spring Seeds and Starts sales (http://seedsandstarts.org). Listen in as we talk about all things foraging and getting your garden started this spring!

Reviewers of George’s new book have this to say:

"George Barnett shows that with this book he is not only knowledgeable, but has immeasurable wisdom about the forests and the wild areas of Kentucky. We should all consider ourselves lucky to have this edition to add to our library shelves. Foraging for food is at an all time high in popularity right now, and it is thanks to the hard work and dedication of people like George." ―Clay Bowers-Michigan, foraging teacher and nature enthusiast at http://nomiforager.com

"While covering awesome native food plants like hickory and eastern camas, it's nice that George also includes non-native foods like wineberry and autumn olive. Combining wild edible plants and edible/medicinal mushrooms makes this book stand out in a fun and exciting way!" ―Jed Arkels, small nursery grower/owner of Drop Seed Ecology, and wild foods enthusiast

"Barnett delivers an approachable, yet practical perspective on foraging in the region. He guides the reader with knowledgeable and personal experience― along with over 200 descriptive photos―that will help the beginner forager to head out into the woods with confidence. This invitation to the wild of Kentucky, through mushrooms, edible plants and herbs, introduces the reader to the edible outdoors with notes of identification, safety, practical uses, sustainability while also inspiring a reverence to the land. A must have for Kentucky foragers!" ―Jess Starwood, author of Mushroom Wanderland

"Drawing on scientific studies, indigenous knowledge, folklore, and his own long experience, George Barnett has provided us with an informative and useful guide to some of Kentucky's most popular wild edibles, as well as several unheralded species that perhaps deserve more attention. His descriptions of some 50 herbs, fungi, and woody plants include wonderful photographs and detailed instructions for every step of the foraging enterprise, from how to find and harvest them to how to eat them. Anyone with any interest in foraging in and around the commonwealth should have Foraging Kentucky on their shelf." ―Luke Manget, author of Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia, winner of the 2023 W.D. Weatherford and James A. Duke Awards

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

K.A. Owens interviews Dee Pregliasco of the League of Women Voters. She explains the history and purpose of League.

First air date Friday March 2, 2018, 2PM.

Current air date Saturday March 9, 2024, 2:30PM.

Rev. Philip Lloyd-Sidle was the minister at James Lee Memorial Presbyterian Church from 2001 to 2014, and was on the staff of the Center for Women and Families from 2013 to 2018. Retired since January of 2018, Phil has been active for the past few years in the Buddhist group meeting at the Clifton Unitarian Church, leading not only meditation, but also social action projects. They have both recently return from Palestine.

Patty and Brian talk about checking sources!

On this week's program, we bring you a vital community conversation about the suppression of black history in America. On Tuesday evening, March 5, 2024, the Filson Historical Society hosted a panel discussion entitled "Carter G. Woodson and the Killing of Black History." Tune in as three accomplished Black men discuss Black History and contemporary racial struggle. They intentionally do so after Black History Month. Their conversation moves from the impetus of “Miseducation of the Negro” author Carter G. Woodson founding Negro History Week in 1926 to current political, educational, and political attacks on “diversity,” which they see as the latest iteration of “American anti-Blackness.”

The panel begins with Ricky L. Jones, Ph.D., Baldwin-King Scholar in Residence, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute & Professor of Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville. Jones is the past chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies, opinion columnist for the Courier Journal/USA Today Network, and organizer of the Envirome Institute’s “Baldwin-King Project.” He is author of Black Haze and What’s Wrong with Obamamania?

Also on the panel are:

Mawuli Mel Davis, J.D., Founding partner of the Davis Bozeman Johnson Law Firm. Davis is a former Naval officer who is now a civil rights attorney, human rights organizer, and author based in Atlanta, Georgia. Davis Bozeman Johnson Law, one of Georgia’s largest African American-owned law firms has three offices in Savannah, Statesboro, and Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of We Need You: Encouraging My Son’s Generation for Black Liberation.

Derrick White, Ph.D., Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky and author of Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

This event was brought to you by the University of Louisville's Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute’s Baldwin-King Project in partnership with the Filson Historical Society. Learn more at http://filsonhistorical.org

Truth to Power brings you conversations you won't hear anywhere else on the airwaves. The program airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

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This week we talk about some of our favorite books coming out of small and independent presses. The Big 5 publishers print those blockbusters we love to stick in our beach bag but smaller presses support much more diverse authors and innovative and important stories that may be your next favorite read! We give you a little primer about the difference between a small press and an imprint by on the Big 5.

Books mentioned--

1- The Changeling by Victor Lavalle

2- The Odyssey by Homer

3- Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit

4- Everyman by Philip Roth

5- Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell

6- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - 5 star readrecommended by fellow book lover Amy Bernath @mrsmillardfillmorereads

7- The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel (Tin House)

8- Three Ways to Disappear by Katy Yocom (Ashland Creek Press)

https://ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/ep-35-revision-and-riding-the-tiger-with-katy-yocom-2-26-20/

9- The Salt Fields by Stacy D. Flood (Lanternfish Press)

10- Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross Smith (Hub City Press)

11- Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year by Arwen Donahue (Hub City Press)

12- Places We Left Behind: A Memoir in Miniature by Jennifer Lang (Vine Leaves Press)

13- What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me by Donna Gordon (Regal House)

https://ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/s-6-e-136-a-man-a-boy-a-mom-a-pig-and-ben-franklin-with-guest-donna-gordon-6-8-22/

14- Menopause: A Comic Treatment edited by MK Czerwiec (Penn State University Press)

15- Bad Tourist by Suzanne Roberts (Univeristy of Nebraska Press)

16- Another Appalachia (WVU Press)

17- World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Milkweed Editions)

18- Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl (Milkweed Editions)

19- Lungfish by Meghan Gillis (Catapult Books)

20- Tidepool by Nicole Willson (Parliament House)

21- The Keeper of the Key by Nicole Willson (Parliament House Books - coming Nov. 12, 2024)

Movies/Shows mentioned--

Maestro (Netflix, 2023)

The Changeling (Apple+, 2023)

For All Mankind (Apple+, 2019)

Links mentioned:

Odysseus Lunar Landing - https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/world/moon-landing-intuitive-machines-nasa-scn/index.html

Solar Flare -

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/x6-solar-flare-today-outage-earth-att/

Human Isolation on Mars-

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/magazine/mars-isolation-experiment.html

LA Public Library now owns a small press -

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-08/the-l-a-public-library-is-getting-into-book-publishing-why-it-makes-total-sense

Solutions to Violence features the Rev. Phil Rev. Philip Lloyd-Sidle was the minister at James Lee Memorial Presbyterian Church from 2001 to 2014, and was on the staff of the Center for Women and Families from 2013 to 2018. Retired since January of 2018, Phil has been active for the past few years in the Buddhist group meeting at the Clifton Unitarian Church, leading not only meditation, but also social action projects. Rev. Lloyd Sidle has recently return from Palestine. Rev. Sidle explains the inhumane destruction now being leveled on the Palestinian population.

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, puts down his pruning saw for a conversation about the science of tree rings with Dr. Maegen Rochner. Maegen is a Dendrochronologist and a professor of Geographic & Environmental Sciences at the University of Louisville. Her research has focused on the use of tree-ring data to reconstruct past climate and environmental conditions. More specifically, her dissertation research used tree rings in relic and living whitebark pine and Engelmann spruce to investigate climate change and disturbance in the Beartooth Mountains of Northwest Wyoming. She also enjoys research in dendroarchaeology, or using tree-ring patterns to date historic frame structures, log cabins, canoes, and most anything made out of wood. Dr. Rochner has also assisted her colleagues in other fields of dendrochronology, including fire history studies, climate reconstruction, ecology, stand dynamics, and more.

As a tree-ring scientist in Louisville, Maegen is interested in initiating local research projects focused on (1) urban forests and their responses to climate change and urban heat islands, (2) tree-ring dating of local historic resources, such as cabins, buildings, and artifacts, (3) pollution and invasive species, and (4) spatial differences in tree species and ages used in urban forests and parks. Learn more at https://louisville.edu/geogeo/about/profiles/meagen-rochner-ph-d.

For those interested in diving deeper into the topic of dendrochronology, Dr. Rochner recommends https://www.dendrohub.com/

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

Kay Tillow and Jill Harmer discuss the book Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing our Failing System by Robert H. LeBow, MD.

Kay Tillow, Charlie Casper, and Paul Hoppe discuss Prior Authorization and other Medicare Advantage problems.