farmer
Farmer from Three Rivers, California, who has a booth at the Santa Monica farmer’s market every Wednesday
PROFILE
Dawn Birch
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FROM Dawn Birch
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Farmers Feel the Hardship of Drought Dawn Birch of Flora Bella Farm We’ve talked a lot lately on this show about the impacts of California’s drought and the state’s new water restrictions. Today, we hear from farmers. Two Central Valley growers discuss how they’ve had to scale back their businesses amid California’s epic drought. One also discusses the state’s new, first-ever mandatory water restrictions, which only apply to urban consumers, not agriculture, even though farms use nearly four times as much water as cities.
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Bookworm
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Why is Trump so behind on filling staff jobs, establishing concrete policies? Yesterday Donald Trump signed a “decision memo” to revamp the air traffic control system. But there was little legislative detail in the plan. There’s not much to other splashy announcements from the White House, including tax cuts and the arms deal with Saudi Arabia. And hundreds of positions are unfilled in federal agencies.