Are y’all ready to learn about water justice and transform how you and your community are connected to water? Well Keree’ Blanks from the Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans is here to talk about water and community on the Louisiana coast. From floating planter box competitions to artist collaborations, the Water Collaborative is helping the community of New Orleans live and thrive with water in a city where water impacts everything.

Listen to their podcast: Don’t Water It Down

Visit their website: nolawater.org

Follow them on LinkdIn, Instagram, and Bluesky: @nolawater

Show Notes: www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2025/episode-19

Credits:

• Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins
• Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley
• Email me at [email protected]
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Dinosaurs! Sharks! Giant Sequoias! An ancient world is being unearthed at Dinosaur Park in Laurel, MD. Hear from paleontologist JP Hodnett and volunteer and program coordinator Sarah Kulis about how their discoveries shape their understanding of Maryland during the Cretaceous period, and how Dinosaur Park connects people to an ancient landscape.

Follow the park on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PGParksHistory

Visit the MNCPPC page for Dinosaur Park: https://www.pgparks.com/parks_trails/dinosaur-park

Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2025/episode-18

Credits:

• Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins
• Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley
• Email me at [email protected]
• Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod
• Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com
• Episode cover image courtesy of JP Hodnett

Part two of a two-part Mother’s Day Special! This episode, I’m interviewing Ellen Roane who worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the Urban Forestry division and later worked as the urban forester for the city of Harrisburg.

Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2025/episode-16-17
Credits:

• Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins
• Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley
• Email me at [email protected]
• Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod
• Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com

Part one of a two-part Mother’s Day Special! This episode, I’m interviewing my mom Sarah Hopkins who worked at the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as the division chief for Education, Information and Interpretation for the Pennsylvania State Parks.

Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2025/episode-16-17

Credits:

• Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins
• Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley
• Email me at [email protected]
• Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod
  Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com

Species with Spunk is back! This episode, we’re hiking the Billy Goat Trail at Great Falls National Park in search of Virginia Bluebells. Listen now wherever your little heart desires!

Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2025/episode-15
Credits:

• Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins
• Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley
• Email me at [email protected]
• Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod

• Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com

Jaz Erenberg is the mind and the brush behind many colorful murals around the city of Baltimore. Hear from community and public artist, Jaz Erenberg about her artistic process, what it actually takes to get art on the wall, and BRUSH mural fest.

*This episode contains a bit of swearing (but really, not that much)*

Follow Jaz Erenberg on Instagram @jaz_erenberg

Visit her website at https://jazerenberg.com/

Learn about BRUSH Mural fest at https://www.brushmuralfest.com/

Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2025/episode-14

Credits:

• Created & Hosted by Zoe Roane-Hopkins
• Theme Music by Zoe Roane-Hopkins & Logan Staley
• Email me at [email protected]
• Follow the podcast on instagram @mudkitchenpod
• Sign up for the mailing list! www.mudkitchenpod.com
  

Visit the Patuxent Research Refuge and hear from Dr. Matt Gonnerman about his research at the refuge

Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2025/episode-13

Follow Dr. Matt Gonnerman on BlueSky @mattgonnerman

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Neha Srinivasan talks about her experience as a project manager for Nature Sacred, her love of dance, and how communication and language shape her world!

Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-12
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Explore Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area in Owings Mills, MD and discover another world! This globally rare serpentine ecosystem is home to lots of endemic and rare species. We haven’t always been the kindest to this land but we’re re-learning what it means to care for the places we call home.

Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-11
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Mike Hill is a landscape architect with the US Forest Service working with the Sites of Civil Rights and Resistance program. He works to connect communities to the layered histories of our National Forests and increase accessibility for the public to experience these special landscapes.

Show Notes: https://www.mudkitchenpod.com/show-notes/2024/episode-10Check out the ArcGIS map

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