The October 2, 2023 Weekly Roundup of the Iowa Podcasters' Collaborative

Container garden to wetland, food and water, and more...

Welcome to the September 30th weekly roundup of the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative. We are your hosts Robert Leonard, Amy Russell, and Sarah Davis. Hear what’s been happening with the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative with the links below:

On her most recent podcast on Buggy Land, host Mary Swander interviews Jill Mortensen and Rus Mullen in From a Container Garden to a Wetland.

Iowa Revolution is hosted by award-winning radio broadcaster Spencer Dirks, and he and Robert Leonard (aka Bob, or Dr. Bob) discuss news, politics, sports, and much, much more. The duo returns with Episode 25: We Want Both Ferentzes Gone. Tim Scott is a Hater of the Working Man. Top 5 Bands/Musicians From Iowa. Also, Joe Biden continues to lead on climate, Spencer sings, and the Twins are AL Central Champs! (Hey, somebody had to be.)

Podcast By George hosts Emily Miller and Barb Kalbach as they discuss Food and Water Watch and Iowa CCI as two of 13 groups suing the EPA over manure in water - click here.

Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck offers a weekly Monday Zoom call at noon, and since it is a video digital product, it’s a broader part of the Iowa Podcasters’ Collaborative. A recent conversation about dining, Iowa restaurants, chefs, and tipping with Wini Moranville, food writer, can be found here.  Also, check out some personal news as two aging baby boomers take on raising a puppy named J. Dudley Gilbert here. 

Your window to the world of Iowa Politics is KHOI’s Capitol Week radio broadcast with Laura Belin, it airs each Monday at 7:00 PM, and the archives may be found at the link above. Laura Belin, the author of the blog Bleeding Heartland updates us on developments in Iowa government, hosted by KHOI’s newsman Dennis Hart. Read here for a piece titled Summit Carbon hearings: Who’s behind the curtain? 

All subscribers to Iowa politics with Laura Belin on Substack receive an audio file and recap of every edition of KHOI Radio’s “Capitol Week.” And please consider subscribing to Laura’s Substack newsletter, Iowa politics with Laura Belin. 

Beth Hoffman lives on a farm near Lovillia. Beth is a former public radio journalist and professor from California who now chronicles the farming life in rural Iowa in her substack In the Dirt. She is the author of Bet the Farm: the Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America. Read about meditation and goats here: Farm Meditation: All Tangled Up. 

Host Sarah Davis’s Warmly, Iowa takes a look at Iowa through the lens of rediscovery and exploration of those things that make life in Iowa beautiful and complex. 

Listen to What the Hell Happened Iowa with Julie Gammack and Rekha Basu. Two Iowa journalists investigate what the hell happened to Iowa, a once progressive state that, as of 2023, has swung far right. Why? We'll be asking Iowans just that question.

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