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The "Garden Variety" podcast offers tips and tricks for plant parents of all levels

NPR | By Adrian Ma,

Michael Levitt, Mallory Yu

Published March 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM CDT

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with Charity Nebbe and Aaron Steil, hosts of Iowa Public Radio's Garden Variety podcast.

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Adrian Ma

Adrian Ma covers work, money and other "business-ish" for NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator from Planet Money.

Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt is a news assistant for All Things Considered who is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science. Before coming to NPR, Levitt worked in the solar energy industry and for the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C. He has also travelled extensively in the Middle East and speaks Arabic.

Mallory Yu

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An Iranian-American writer describes the "vertigo" he feels about the war

Adrian Ma, Daniel Ofman, Michael Levitt, William Troop

Host Adrian Ma speaks with Iranian American writer Nick Mafi about the war in Iran. Mafi says many Iranians in the US are feeling a sense of vertigo because of the conflict.
Fab 5 Freddy recalls how he brought underground art forms mainstream respect

Adrian Ma, Gabriel J. Sánchez, Patrick Jarenwattananon

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with Fab 5 Freddy, a pioneer of graffiti art and hip-hop filmmaking, on his new memoir Everybody's Fly.
In Indonesia, a fishing village replants mangrove forests one seedling at a time

Katerina Barton

Over the last 30 years, 40% of Indonesia's mangroves have been cut down mainly to create fish and shrimp farms, destroying local ecosystems. But one small indigenous fishing village is changing that.
Spain offers a different approach to dealing with undocumented migrants

Alexis T. Marshall

Spain plans to give half a million undocumented migrants legal status.
NPR critics revisit the ghosts of Oscars past

Marc Rivers, Stephen Thompson, Adrian Ma

The Oscars are tonight, and not everyone will be happy with who wins and loses. But what if we had a chance to pick the Oscars? This week, we're looking into Oscars past and relitigating some wins.