This week host Richard Pille and his redoubtable sidekick exchange affable jokes about their wives, Richard’s grand children visit the chicken house and name names, and Ann Carter’s lovely book “Sweetness” is the poetic well from which we draw inspiration. Mark Schuster of the Berryville Public Library gives us the skinny on Big Changes therein, [...]
Host Richard Pille, aided and abetted by Dan Krotz and special visitor Sharon Sloan, Director of the Carroll County Literacy Council, tells us about two feature length movies he appears in, Broken Faith and Surrender, both produced by 102 Studios in Springfield, MO. Dan reads letters from listeners and is otherwise superfluous. Alica and Eddie [...]
Organic farming pioneer and godfather to many of the areas small organic farmers, Patrice Gros, carries on an extended conversation with homestead gardeners Richard and Jane Pille. They cover a lot of territory that includes why to keep the kids away from commercial television to a definition of what sustainability means to a little bit [...]
This week the Harvest Hour finds Dan still among the missing. This old man is still wrestling with his computer, but has managed to share a few moments with his new neighbors, who are building a new straw bale home. We will follow their progess with a series of interviews. Jane and I are out [...]
The actor and food activist Richard Pille reads an original poem called “The Farmer’s Spirit.” It is splendid. Following the sublime, our host stumbles and bumbles through the “News of the World,” where he assumes that the world is about 25 miles in circumference. From there, we hear about Wildfire Farm’s Community Supported Agriculture project [...]
You can’t go wrong by stealing from G. K. Chesterton and our man David Bell does just that. Richard and Jane Pille continue to homestead and embrace romance In the Garden by giving us a fine tour of their wonderful place. Robert and Cara Phillippe introduce us to the Phillippe Family Quartet, proof positive that [...]
Alicia Keever and Sal Monella argue about true love and seasonal eating while our host encourages YOU to enter the 2012 Carroll County Fresh Photography Contest: win money with your photo of food, farming or farmers! Richard Pille, our favorite movie actor and man about town, interviews officers of the Eureka Springs Garden Club about [...]
This week our host ponders an offer from the lovely Amber, and Alica Keever ponders that old age question “What is time to a pig?” David Bell discusses John Ruskin and architecture, while Jon Toombs shows us again why he may be the smartest and most eloquent man in Arkansas. Jane Pille, President of Carroll [...]
Robert ‘Butch’ Berry, a candidate for District 97 House of Representatives drops by to spread the good word about–Butch Berry. Richard Schoe, retired broadcaster, former Eureka Springs, Arkansas Mayor, and current Weathertainment Guru on Facebook, shares some poetry and his views on the impact of social media on the Arab Spring. Carroll County’s most original [...]
Almost everyone has a soft spot for their cat or dog, but more often than anyone likes, some doggies and kitties fall through the cracks and become homeless, abandoned, or abused. The Good Shepherd Human Society, with auxiliary stores in Eureka springs and Berryville, Arkansas, rides to the rescue and provides veterinary care, shelter, and [...]