Local Dirt is a public affairs radio show on
KDVS 90.3FM in Davis, California, focusing on environmental, health, social justice and agriculture-related issues in the local and national community.
Local Dirt began as project of
Students for Sustainable Agriculture, and also a part of the
Buy Fresh, Buy Local campaign for the
Community Alliance with Family Farms. Local Dirt's inaugural year was in 2005 with Temra Costa and Navina Khanna hosting. Past show co-hosts include Luis Sierra, Christie McCullen, Dori Stone, Alida Cantor, Rory ODwyer, Tianna DuPont, Natalie Yahr and Victor Duraj as an engineer/recorder. Current co-hosts are Neda Yousefian, Jeremy Raff, Anna Ruth Crittenden and Dani Lee.
Local Dirt airs live on KDVS 90.3FM from 5-6pm PST on Mondays. You can stream us live by visiting the
KDVS website and clicking on '
listen now.'
About KDVS...KDVS is freeform radio at its best, airing live from the University of California, Davis campus. The station is completely student run. To this day, KDVS continues its original mission: to provide the university with a laboratory for learning broadcast, production and managerial skills, and to provide its listening audience with diverse, challenging, noncommercial, freeform radio. Check out more about KDVS, visit their
history page.
About the Hosts...
Anna Ruth. Born and raised in San Rafael, Anna-Ruth Crittenden is a 2nd year undergraduate at UC Davis studying Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning. Current resident of Pierce Coop (of the tri-coop community on campus), current WERC (Whole Earth Reusables Cooperative) co-director for the
Whole Earth Festival, and current garden coordinator for the tri-coop gardens. Anna-Ruth thrives in a temperate climate, needs regular hydration, and regularly performs scientific experiments throughout the academic and nonacademic year.
Dani Lee is a 2008 UCD alum, with a BS in Clinical Nutrition. While a student, Dani was involved in
Students for Sustainable Agriculture and co-founded the Davis Vegetarian Society. Dani currently works for
UC Davis Dining Services as the Sustainability Manager and also enjoys volunteering for and co-coordinating the Children's Area at the annual
Hoes Down Harvest Festival. She enjoys riding her bike, Felipe, cooking, baking and hanging out in her garden.
Jeremy Raff. A McAllen, Texas native, Jeremy is a class of 2012 undergraduate in Community and Regional Development. He's interned at
Urban Harvest, a Houston based non-profit working toward sustainable urban agriculture, and is a photographer for the
California Aggie. Jeremy spends as much time as possible rollerblading.
Neda Yousefian. Neda came to Davis in 2009 to pursue her graduate studies in the International Agricultural Development program. She earned her bachelor's degree in Anthropology and African Studies from Howard University. She pursued her loves of farming and travel by joining the
Peace Corps and served as an agroforestry volunteer in Mauritania from 2006 to 2008. Neda enjoys many hobbies and always makes time for good coffee.
Whole Earth Festival and Appropriate Technology. Bryan Jungers, appropriate technology director for the 2008 Whole Earth Festival (WEF), came onto Local Dirt to talk with us about appropriate technology (AT) in transportation, farming and more. Bryan also talked about how AT was incorporated into the 2008 Whole Earth Festival and how to apply AT to our lives. Interviewed in May of 2008.
Elisabetta Lambertini, a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis, specializes in environmental biotechnology, environmental stressors in populations, gene transfer and regulation in microbes. Elisabetta discusses how appropriate technology can be applied to agriculture, life cycle assessment and more. Interviewed in May 2009.
