Player FM 앱으로 오프라인으로 전환하세요!
Due South's "Golden Leaf" series on tobacco's deep roots in NC; gap year student learns lessons outside the classroom
Manage episode 435619762 series 3524329
North Carolina is predicted to harvest well over 100,000 acres of tobacco this year, and grows most of the flue-cured tobacco produced in the U.S. As farmers and laborers take to the fields to harvest the crop, Due South takes a look at the impact of tobacco on our state – past, present, and future – in an occasional series called “Golden Leaf.”
Our first conversation is with Dr. Blake Brown, a professor emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. He talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about the role of tobacco farming in North Carolina’s economy and discusses some of the big federal policies of the past century that impacted tobacco farming in our state. We also hear from Yesenia Cuello, Executive Director of NC FIELD, who talks to Due South about her own experiences working in tobacco fields as a child, and how the practice persists today. In this occasional series, we'll also talk with public health experts, historians, farmers, and researchers.
In our last segment: gap years. As college students start the fall semester, co-host Leoneda Inge talks with a UNC-Chapel Hill student who took a gap year – instead of going straight from high school to college – about what she learned outside the classroom.
250 에피소드
Manage episode 435619762 series 3524329
North Carolina is predicted to harvest well over 100,000 acres of tobacco this year, and grows most of the flue-cured tobacco produced in the U.S. As farmers and laborers take to the fields to harvest the crop, Due South takes a look at the impact of tobacco on our state – past, present, and future – in an occasional series called “Golden Leaf.”
Our first conversation is with Dr. Blake Brown, a professor emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. He talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about the role of tobacco farming in North Carolina’s economy and discusses some of the big federal policies of the past century that impacted tobacco farming in our state. We also hear from Yesenia Cuello, Executive Director of NC FIELD, who talks to Due South about her own experiences working in tobacco fields as a child, and how the practice persists today. In this occasional series, we'll also talk with public health experts, historians, farmers, and researchers.
In our last segment: gap years. As college students start the fall semester, co-host Leoneda Inge talks with a UNC-Chapel Hill student who took a gap year – instead of going straight from high school to college – about what she learned outside the classroom.
250 에피소드
Semua episod
×플레이어 FM에 오신것을 환영합니다!
플레이어 FM은 웹에서 고품질 팟캐스트를 검색하여 지금 바로 즐길 수 있도록 합니다. 최고의 팟캐스트 앱이며 Android, iPhone 및 웹에서도 작동합니다. 장치 간 구독 동기화를 위해 가입하세요.