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These Ozark Hills, June 2016
This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozark Hills. It’s June in the Ozarks. I could have written about my potatoes, which look promising, or my strawberries, which are heaping abundance on my head. But then I saw a post on … Continue reading
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Tagged Caney Mountain, Ozark farm, Ozark history, Ozark soil, Ozark timber, These Ozark Hills
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These Ozark Hills; September 2015
This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozark Hills. We here in the hills have been asked recently to do what most of the folks routinely have had to do in other parts of the world, that is, to adapt gracefully … Continue reading
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Tagged California farming, climate change, drought, flexibility, ingenuity, natural resources, Ozarks
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These Ozark Hills – September 5, 2014
This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills, asking: How big is a garden? A silly and unanswerable question, and sounds like those old jabberwocky jokes that passed through in the 60s, like “what’s the difference between a duck? Answer: … Continue reading
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These Ozark Hills
This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills. Spring is barely upon us and seems to be struggling to get here this year. A friend remarked yesterday, not without some apprehension in her voice, that she couldn’t remember another time … Continue reading
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Tagged Butterfield, consummerism, KSMU, marideth sisco, NPR, plumbing, recycling, These Ozark Hills
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These Ozark Hills
This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills. It’s March in the Ozarks and elsewhere, coming in this time quite lion-like and full of itself, telling us if we think winter is finished, we should think again. It’s all bluster, … Continue reading
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Tagged college, cultural differences, culture, East Coast, education, These Ozark Hills, trains
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These Ozark Hills; 11-2012
This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills – In days like these, reeling from another superstorm and with one of the most contentious elections in history finally over — with so many lives tossed on the angry tides of … Continue reading
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Tagged diversity, marideth sisco, NPR, Ozarks, radio show, These ozarks Hills
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In These Ozark Hills, 4-2012
This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills. I’m wondering today if anyone is having as much trouble with the calendar as I am. I spent most of mid-April this year in my garden, only it was the middle of … Continue reading
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Tagged armadillos, early spring, hard times, KSMU, marideth sisco, mayapples, Ozarks, radio show
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