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Science Cafe: Urban Farming in Little Rock

Chris Hiryak
Chris Hiryak

Hear Science Cafe, broadcast live on Feb. 27, 2018.

Chris Hiryak
Chris Hiryak

Where does our food come from? When you're in the grocery story do you ever wonder if it's local, genetically-modified and cage-free? Is it organic?

In this month's episode of Science Cafe we’ll visit with Chris Hiryak, the director of Little Rock Urban Farming. Chris was a UA Little Rock Donaghey Scholar who made organic farming, a career. You can hear the episode above.

On this month's episode Arkansas Public Media's Bobby Ampazzan filled in for regular host Dorothy Graves.

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Bobby Ampezzan is a native of Detroit who holds degrees from Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) and the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville). He's written for The Guardian newspaper and Oxford American magazine and was a longtime staff writer fortheArkansas Democrat-Gazette. The best dimestore nugget he's lately discovered comes from James Altucher's Choose Yourself(actually, the Times' profile on Altucher, which quotes the book): "I lose at least 20 percent of my intelligence when I am resentful." Meanwhile, his faith in public radio and television stems from the unifying philosophy that not everything be serious, but curiosity should follow every thing, and that we be serious about curiosity.
Dorothy Graves