Kindred Continuum

This episode is Part II of a two-part series featuring kids working for the Youth Conservation Corps.  Host Nan Franzblau talks with kids from the YCC Water Harvesting, Trail, and Eco-monitoring Crews, who describe the projects they're working on, how these projects impact the community, and what they're learning, not only from the manual work but through working in groups and leading others.  

This episode is Part I of a two-part series featuring kids working for the Youth Conservation Corps.  Host Nan Franzblau talks with kids from the YCC Mural and Garden Crews, who describe the projects they're working on, how these projects impact the community, and what they have learned, not only from the manual work but through working in groups and leading others. Be sure to tune in to Part II […]

This month, 5th graders from all over southwest New Mexico come to the Gila to celebrate the river.  In this episode, kids from Cliff and Stout Elementary Schools share their favorite riverside activities:  identifying riparian trees, collecting macroinvertebrates that indicate river health, distinguishing between skulls of carnivores and herbivores, plus making surprising discoveries about the many ways the river supports all life.  We also hear from recent high school graduates […]

In Tilantongo – Conversations from Indigenous Mexico; Conversaciones desde el México indigena, Phil and Kathy Dahl-Bredine bring perspectives and insights from Oaxaca, where they have lived with and learned from indigenous Mixtec people since 2001. This bilingual program features interviews with villagers, educators, environmental advocates, historians, and more. In Tilantongo program 2 for 2023, Mixtec campesinos Berta Santiago and Agustin Leon Santos discuss technology. Ironically, they point out, indigenous campesinos here still […]

In Program 1 for 2023, Mixtec Culture, Lifestyles, and Values, Mixtec leader Eliseo Reyes Miguel returns to our Tilantongo conversations, probing more deeply into the communal language and thought that make this civilization, its ways of life, and its values so different from those of our Western civilization in crisis.  https://gmcr.org/prog/kindred%20continuum/tilantongo/kindred%20continuum%20230327%20tilantongo%20ep%208.mp3

Students from GW Stout (and an alumna) come to the table for a lively discussion about their fourth grade gardening program.  Facilitated by fourth grade teacher Julie Dunning-Farmer and County Commissioner Alicia Edwards, these students detail their gardening adventures, from breaking up asphalt seven years ago to cultivate their school property, to making salsa and pumpkin pies from their harvests.  As they discuss the evolution of their garden plots and […]

Host Nan Franzblau and co-host Cliff School Librarian Mary Giardina are joined by Mrs. Quattrocchi's 5th grade students.  The students discuss the five large murals they created for the Cliff School cafeteria that inspire others to compost their food waste and educate them about the process.  Students talk about how composting happens and its benefits and impacts on the environment.  They also describe their murals in detail, even down to […]