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KVNF's Laura Palmisano takes us to the tiny mountain town of Lake City, Colorado to ice climb with a group of adaptive athletes.

This episode features a discussion on food security and new state programs for grant and funding opportunities for small and large scale farmers and retailers. Colorado's Commissioner of Agriculture, Kate Greenberg, also talks about climate change and how it relates to current Agriculture in Colorado. 

Here are some links to the state programs mentioned in this interview:
 1. Colorado's Community Food Access Program 2.
Colorado's Soil Health Program
 3. Colorado Department of Agriculture Job Opportunities

Two miles from Moab, Utah, a developer is forging ahead on building 580 varied, luxury houses and a business park. But there's problem: the 180-acre site is on a sandbar projecting into the Colorado River, and writer Mary Moran saw this floodplain completely flooded in 1984. In any case, she adds, Moab needs housing for working people, not high-end luxury homes.

KVNF's weekly call in gardening show.

Now its time for Rain & Shine, your weekly Regional Science update.

Today we ask the question, who am I doing this for?

Cole Buerger is running for the Democratic Primary in Colorado’s Senate District 5. A fifth generation Coloradoan, says he cares deeply about the communities in the district and wants to shake up the status quo. He will be facing Montrose Mayor Barbara Bynum in the Democratic primary on June 25, 2024.

On this week’s Local Motion, we join Maeve Conran, the Rocky Mountain Community Radio coalition’s managing editor, for our regional news roundup. We’ll hear a feature on a weekly community dinner for seasonal workers in Snowmass, Colorado, an audio postcard on a creek that never freezes in winter and the ducks that enjoy it and an interview with the director of the new documentary In the Dirt about mountain biking on the Navajo Nation.

Bringing equal measures humor and social consciousness Joey Chang, known musically as CelloJoe, talks about the tension between classical music, hip-hop and beat-boxing, today on Talkin' Music.

On clear, dark nights, we can see dozens of satellites with our eyes alone. Most satellites travel within a zone called Low Earth Orbit that ranges in altitude from 150 to 1200 miles.