Davis Garden Show, Jan. 23, 2025
Thu, 01/23/2025 - 12:00pm | Don ShorToday's topics: how plants respond to cold temperatures, Blenheim apricots and other historic fruit varieties, easy fruit year-around, planting camellias, and more.
Today's topics: how plants respond to cold temperatures, Blenheim apricots and other historic fruit varieties, easy fruit year-around, planting camellias, and more.
Get ready for IMPLOSION, a one-hour frolic through psychedelic-tinged rock. Join your host (and Bevis Frond frontman) Nick Saloman at 5 p.m. Pacific for fantastic tracks from Time Box, Dragonfly, the Guess Who, the Motion, and more — all here on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org. (Stream it henceforth via the web or your favorite podcast app!)
It's time again for In the Key of Folk at 2 p.m.! Today we'll start off with a couple of tracks from the album by Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon. We'll also spend time with a project that Casey Driessen, fiddler extraordinaire, began in 2019: Otherlands. I'll play two tracks from this really cool adventure, both musical and geographical. Additional tracks today include Jez Lowe, San Miguel Fraser, and Keith Murphy and Becky Tracy. And, just to celebrate Robbie Burns, we'll hear from Scots Jim Malcolm, Emily Smith and Jamie McClennan, and Dick Gaughan. So come enjoy some musical travels this afternoon at KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org!
On tonight's show:
So — climate change. How do you come up with a plan that actually makes a significant difference, and that people will follow? Maybe even want to follow? For Davis and Yolo County, but really, for any city, any county.
Our guest today, Richard McCann, has some ideas about this. He’s a Davis energy consultant and founding partner of M.Cubed Consulting. On Feb. 9, he’ll talk in Davis about “effective local climate actions” — including why plans at the levels of local government “seem to hit a pause when they need to jump into action.” The reasons include wishful thinking about how people will participate.
(The photo shows an electric car about to get charged in a Davis home.)
Meet Gordie Nodge, a farmer from Saskatchewan who spends part of the winter in Davis. He is an exceptional banjo player with captivating original songs. You can sometimes catch him performing his 5-string banjo at the Davis Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. He’s also an enthusiastic regular at the Music Circle, held every Friday at noon at the Wyatt Pavilion at UC Davis. In this broadcast, Gordie even set some lyrics I wrote to music. Fun fact: Gordie busked at the Davis Farmers Market on Saturday and generously donated all his earnings to KDRT. Thank you, Gordie!
Don't miss this fine edition of The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour — a deep dive into the Paisley Underground scene — featuring tunes from 28th Day, the Three O'Clock, the Dream Syndicate, the Long Ryders, and much more — including, of course, True West. Tune in at 9 p.m. Pacific to KDRT 95.7 FM | KDRT.org. (Stream it thereafter via the web or your favorite podcast app!)
Today's topics: starting pepper seeds, passion fruit vine injury, plants for a shade border, and fruit plants for partial shade.
Oh, yes, it's time for IMPLOSION — your weekly dose of brilliance from the one and only Nick Saloman, bringing you the best of psychedelia and more, including tracks from the Open Mind, the Isley Brothers, the St. Louis Union, and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera! Listen up, right here on KDRT 95.7 FM | KDRT.org.
This afternoon on In the Key of Folk we'll hear tracks from a range of musicians and styles, including Mr. Nic, Dirty Cello, John McCutcheon, Paul Ellis, Jerry Douglas, Joni Mitchell, Raz de Marée, and a new release by Kora Feder. So join in at 2 p.m. this afternoon and enjoy. Or listen during repeats at 10 a.m. Friday and/or 7 a.m. Thursday -- at KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org. See you then!