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It’s commonly understood that adding organic matter to your growing soil can benefit your plants, but what’s less understood are the ways that too much organic matter can lead to worse results. This week, we’ll talk about how to make sure you’re not overdoing it in your garden!

This week, Luke recaps an exciting shallow water crappie trip he enjoyed back in 2022 with Guide Brandon Sargent.

It can really make sense to do some soil testing in your garden, to make sure you really know what you're growing in, and going about it in the right way. After all, dirt's not a "one-size-fits-all" proposition, and this week, we'll talk about what you can learn from the testing, and how it can keep you from actively damaging the ecosystem!

Hello booklovers, Miriam Scott here from Amarillo, Texas. Today I get to share with you my thoughts on the wonderfully written and illustrated book The American Dream? by author and artist Shing Yin Khor. There are a few things she and I have in common. We are both naturalized immigrants, love traveling alone, and we are both fascinated with the American Dream and the many different shapes this Dream takes in such a vast country of great diversity.

Hi, I’m Juan J. Morales, an assistant professor of English at Colorado College and a poet in Pueblo, Colorado, here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m excited to share with you a poem by fellow Pueblo poet, Mark Chartier, titled, “Kindergarten.”

Hi, I’m Lauren Pronger from Amarillo, TX and I’m talking about The American Dream?, a graphic novel memoir by Shing Yin Khor for the HPPR Radio Readers. As an avid graphic novel reader, one of the things that struck me about this book is that the illustrations tend to float on the page removed from their contexts.

This book is a great road trip! If you want to go down Route 66 and not leave your house, then this is the book.The author who is an immigrant and has lived in the United States for a number of years and has been a citizen now for at least four years first learned about Route 66 after reading The Grapes of Wrath.

This week, Luke recaps a recent hog hunt where he killed a very tasty young wild porker, which he turned into pulled pork by slow smoking all night in his electric smoker.

Thank you for joining us on the High Plains Public Radio Station. My name is Jessica Sadler. I can usually be found in a secondary science classroom, but I am currently a Teacher Professional Development Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. I am here with the other book leaders to discuss The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 by Shing Yin Khor.

In the decades after the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S.’s economic frontier expanded westward. In 1833 the military built a fort on the north bank of the Arkansas River, then the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico. First called Fort William and later renamed to Bent’s Fort, after William and Charles Bent, two brothers from St. Louis who led a trade caravan to Santa Fe in 1829.