Monday, September 12 2011
Cattle Drive Away from Texas
Joe Leathers is General Manager of the Four Sixes Ranch of Gutherie, Texas. He talked with Dick Gordon from Montana, where he has taken 1,200 of his Black Angus cattle to Montana to find grass as wildfires burn up much of their home land.
Fresh Moves on the Bus
Sheelah Muhammad is a co-founder of Fresh Moves, a program in Chicago which helps bring fresh produce to people and places who live in areas without access to grocery stores and fresh meals. The bus has introduced such foods as mangoes and grapes to kids, as well as revitalized cooking among seniors.
Managing the ditch
Estevan Arrellano is a farmer in New Mexico. Water is scarce there, and it reaches Estevan’s farm by one of the many centuries old irrigation ditches still in use today called acequias. Every year, landowners along these ditches choose a Mayordomo, or "ditch boss," who is in charge of distributing water to folks along the canal, and settling disputes when the creek runs dry.
Music from this Program:
Houston in Two Seconds from the film "Paris, Texas"
Ragtime Annie, Beppe Gambetta
Title theme from the film "A River Runs Through it"
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