
Roots Watering Hole Podcast Series
The Roots Watering Hole podcast series is provided through generous support from the Kalliopeia Foundation. Thanks to their support we have begun the journey to share space in elevated wisdom from numerous voices of people who do good in the world in various forms while providing information to our target communities. Roots Watering Hole produces oral narratives for a multitude of purposes. One track is a monthly gardening education and food literacy series co-hosted by Orrin Williams, the Food Systems Coordinator at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Soil Enthusiast Dr. Akilah Martin. The second track is devoted to independent content created by Orrin Williams and Dr. Akilah Martin as co-hosts and individual producers. The independent track focuses on topics related to our ecosystem as a whole, health and wellness, lifestyle, the arts and culture, and humanities. Both tracks will include guests from multiple walks of life, expertise, wisdom, and disciplines. While our focus is centered on BIPOC communities, we believe that all open-minded people interested in our general well-being as a nation and planet Earth will find the content, we produce useful.
Podcasting since 2021 • 105 episodes
Roots Watering Hole Podcast Series
Latest Episodes
June 2025 Food Literacy Podcast
Tune in for some general observations about June gardening and seasonal shopping. Also, remember to get some Vitamin N—the N stands for nature. Get outside, get mo...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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24:05

May 2025 Food Literacy Podcast
May 2025 Food Literacy Podcast Notes May is here in Chicago with the typical temperature swings. We had temperatures ranging between 80 and 90 degrees for a couple of days last week, and now, as I write and put the podcast together ...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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34:09

April 2025 Food Literacy Podcast
Enjoy the April 2025 Food Literacy Podcast!Of significant importance to successful gardening is the number of hours of sunlight available (see the amount of daily sunlight available via yo...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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13:03

March 2025 Food Literacy Podcast
This month's Food Literacy podcast is entirely devoted to gardening. Happy Meteorological Spring, here's to a great gardening season!It is March and the plant and gardening communities are raring to go. In fact, I have distributed thousa...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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24:22

Dr. Christy Garrison Harrison Southern University
Please listen to this episode of the Roots Watering Hole podcast with Dr. Christy Garrison Harrison of Southern University. We asked Dr. Harrison to respond to a question we asked of respondents to our collaboration with the Center for Humans a...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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1:06:23
