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Today, we continue our discussion of milkweed—a crucial plant for monarch butterflies and other pollinators, but also a resource for humans throughout history.

Raylene Hinz-Penner here, coming from central Kansas, North Newton east of Wichita, but I grew up east of Liberal in High Plains territory and am delighted to share in the Book Byte program. A retired college English professor, I am sharing a book that is not fiction, my normal pick, but a lyric genealogical history by notable historian, Tiya Miles, a most amazing book about an object, a sparkling masterpiece of African American women’s history published in 2021. Its title: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake.”

But seriously, what’s the deal with these “unboxing” videos?

This week's show is a repeat of last week's while Luke takes a little vacation, but he will be back next week.

This week, Luke talks about making some mighty fine coffee from mesquite beans.

Joel does the dishes. Always.

Today's edition of Growing on the High Plains will praise the mighty "love apple," also known as the "wolf peach"—though you and I know them as plump, juicy tomatoes.

On today's edition of the program, winter is coming. (Well, not really, but don't tell the snowballs!)

Folks, it's been HOT. That's why today's edition of Growing on the High Plains will talk about plants that can handle the heat.

Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, for our Fall 2022 Read: Rural Life: Revisited.Toward the end of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, a novel set in a small rural town in the early 1900s, Anderson describes a county fair, in his world, an annual autumn event that transforms the sleepy burg into a kind of human maelstrom, with crowds filling the streets, stores and sidewalks of Winesburg.