Saturday, November 26, 2011

Los Hilos de la Vida

Aired on Friday, November 25, 2011 on The California Report Magazine.

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201111251630/c

Jesus, abortion, deportation, border issues. These are some of the stories told in quilts made by immigrant women in Mendocino County's Anderson Valley.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Curandero Chuck Garcia on Latino USA's Radio Nature.

Aired on NPR's Latino USA Friday November 4,2011.

http://www.latinousa.org/970-2/

and on The California Report magazine November 11, 2011.

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201111111630/c

Chuck, who teaches classes on herbalism out of his Richmond home, let me come along on a "wildcrafting" trip in Marin County. He says he rejected the idea of becoming an herbalist like his mother and grandfather but, he says, "you can't escape who you are."