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Updated 01/28/2023
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Updated 01/30/2022

05/11/2022

Homer Grown Season 2, Episode 2: Alaska Native Plant Medicine

The focus for this episode is Alaska Native plant traditions and medicine. We talk with Elder Kathy Brewster of Nanwalek about medicinal plants within Supiaq/Alutiiq culture. King Island Inupiaq, traditional wellness consultant with the Kenaitze Indian Tribe and founder of Indigenous Herbals, Tia Holley discusses the history of King Island and plants and practices used for healing.

05/11/2022

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58 min
01/16/2023

Homer Grown: Rob Heimbach and Mudophile Farms

In this episode we visit Rob Heimbach at his farm to talk about root vegetables, salvaging materials from the dump, and why he is waiting for a president of the United States to say the word "root cellar."

01/16/2023

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1 hr
10/18/2024

Alaska Public Health Check with Nurse Lorne

An overview of pubic health issues with Nurse Lorne Carroll, Public Health Nurse at the Homer Public Health Center

10/18/2024

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56 min
05/11/2022

Homer Grown Episode 10: Fall harvest, overwintering honey bees, Reed canary grass

In this episode we talk with Jon Kee of Spruce Top Farm, Linda Gorman on overwintering bees, Katherine Schake and Nicole Arevalo on Reed Canary Grass and Brad Casar on fall soil sampling.

05/11/2022

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57 min
05/11/2022

Homer Grown: Compost, Vermiculture and Worms

In this episode host Desiree Hagen interviews Jodie Anderson, director of the Matanuska Experimental Farm and Extension Center through UAF about all things compost. Can it be composted? Is it a "brown" or a "green"? Jodie explains how we can be better "zookeepers" to our compost piles, and how microbes can be compaired to children who have been given puppies and too much sugar.

05/11/2022

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1 hr
11/21/2024

Fathoms Deep: An Oral History of Homer Harbor, Episode One

Episode one of Coffee Table's six part oral history of the harbor in Homer, Alaska

11/21/2024

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59 min
10/03/2025

Fathoms Deep: An Oral History of Homer Harbor, Episode Ten

Coffee Table

10/03/2025

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59 min
05/11/2022

Homer Grown: Mushroom Cultivation with Fritz Creek Fungi

For the latest episode of Homer Grown, we travel to that 'micro farm' that host Desiree Hagen mentions in every episode. Darius Kleine of Fritz Creek Fungi chats about mushroom cultivation, foraging wild mushrooms, the potential for mushroom mycelium as a building material. The episode, just like mycelia, branches into many directions including mushrooms that control insects, how mushroom cultivation is integrated into a circular operation model on the farm, and who we want for our 'apocalypse team.'

05/11/2022

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1 hr
12/17/2025

Coffee Table - 12/17/2025 - SP Haven House, Girls on the Run, Planet Youth Survey

A discussion with representatives from South Peninsula Haven House, to talk about the organization, services, advocacy, and prevention. Girls on the Run program starting in February, plus new program for boys, Let Me Run. Planet Youth Survey conclusion with plans to share the results with community stakeholders over the next few months.

12/17/2025

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59 min
05/11/2022

Homer Grown Episode 12: Wildcrafting, Plantlore and Herbalism

On this special Halloween episode, Desiree talks with Carolyn Westbrook of Woda Botanicals and Yarrow Hinnant about various local plants, the lore and significance of plant names, and how these plants can be processed to use medicinally. The interview ran a little long so we included a bonus segment with more details on processing herbs that was not included in the original episode.

05/11/2022

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59 min

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Homer Grown Season 2, Episode 2: Alaska Native Plant Medicine

Homer Grown: Rob Heimbach and Mudophile Farms

Alaska Public Health Check with Nurse Lorne

Homer Grown Episode 10: Fall harvest, overwintering honey bees, Reed canary grass

Homer Grown: Compost, Vermiculture and Worms

Fathoms Deep: An Oral History of Homer Harbor, Episode One

Fathoms Deep: An Oral History of Homer Harbor, Episode Ten

Homer Grown: Mushroom Cultivation with Fritz Creek Fungi

Coffee Table - 12/17/2025 - SP Haven House, Girls on the Run, Planet Youth Survey

Homer Grown Episode 12: Wildcrafting, Plantlore and Herbalism

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