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The first humans arrived in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago; evolving from small nomadic tribes to complex cultures adept at agriculture

Growing fruit trees isn't as simple as just harvesting and eating; to help your tree thrive, produce the best fruit, and build strong limbs, it's important to trim the tree a bit to shape its growth. But it's also important not to just start whacking away at it...there's a real strategy to use, and we'll talk about it in this week's episode!

This week Luke is making a big pot of Catfish Courtbouillon (pronounced as "COO bee YON"), which is basically a Cajun catfish stew. If you are looking for a different way to put those catfish fillets to good use, give this recipe a try. It comes "Luke approved"! Listen to Luke's weekly podcast "Catfish Radio with Luke Clayton and Friends" just about everywhere podcasts are found. Email Luke through his website, www.catfishradio.org

Coronado was not the only explorer to head north looking for the Seven Cities of Gold. Visits from him and others made little impression on the land of the panhandle, but it did allow much of the area to be mapped for the first time.

Strawberries are a favorite summertime treat, and one that many gardeners choose to raise in their own yards. But what's the best way to grow them...will you need many plants, and how much fruit will they yield? Which varieties are best for where I live, and how many harvests can I expect each year? This week, we'll talk about strawberries, and more strawberries!

Hello! I’m Tito Aznar for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club’s 2025 Spring Read. Figuring out who we are can be messy business. It’s full of contradictions, self-doubt, pressure, and, if we’re lucky, some moments of clarity.

Hello High Plains listeners.This is Stella for HPPR’s radio reader book club.I recently read Allie Brosch’s graphic novel, Hyperbole and a Half which is the fourth book included in our spring read.

This week, Luke discusses how to keep yourself safe outdoors in a different way. Yep, protecting yourself from the sun is serious business!

So many garden plants don't really need the entire season to grow. In fact, you can keep your garden busy and efficient by utilizing succession planting, which ensures that you'll always be growing something in whatever space you have available. But this can require some careful planning for best results, and this week, we'll talk about how to make YOUR plan!

Like many of the books in our series on humor, Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half is so specifically temporally located that a less generous person, or even my younger college-aged students, might call it "dated." There is something about the freneticism, vulnerability, and seeming universality of "adulting," to crib a similarly dated phrase, that calls to mind BuzzFeed quizzes, Onion horoscopes, and the early days of YouTube virality.