100% Humboldt
Humboldt County CA USA is the home of some of the most iconoclastic, genuine, and interesting folks in the world.
We are getting curious about the movers, shakers, and difference makers in Humboldt County CA-Home of the giant redwoods, 6 Rivers, and the vast Pacific Ocean.
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Episodes
131 episodes
#131. What Good Local Journalism Is Supposed to Do | Ted Pease
What does good local journalism actually do for the people it serves? Senior News editor Ted Pease joins Scott Hammond to talk about a free monthly newspaper built around Humboldt’s stories—and why he insists it’s a newspaper, not a newsletter....
#130. So, You Get Hit by a Train… | Marty Coelho
Marty Coelho recalls leaving a late-night seafood cleanup shift, having his car hit by a train, and walking away without injuries. Now working in college advancement and the foundation at College of the Redwoods, he joins Scott Hammond to trace...
#129. You Don't Have to Be Wealthy to Give Back | Sara Dronkers
You don't need a fortune to make a difference in Humboldt—and a local gift can keep helping long after it's given. Sara Dronkers, CEO of Humboldt Area Foundation, joins Scott Hammond to explain how more than 900 funds turn donations into schola...
#128. Building Humboldt’s Future: Jobs, Housing, and Samoa | Dan Johnson
Humboldt needs more living-wage jobs, more housing, and a willingness to turn big plans into reality. Dan Johnson shares how he grew The Danco Group from an $8-an-hour start into a 600-person organization, why affordable housing and the redevel...
#127. After Sun Valley: Lane DeVries on Finding Purpose Beyond Success
Lane DeVries traces his journey from a fourth-generation flower-farming family in the Netherlands to growing Sun Valley Floral Farms into the largest flower farm in America—and through the 2008 workforce crisis and years of struggle before its ...
#126. Comic Books, Real Estate, and Vinyl: A Humboldt Life | Don Chin
Don Chin has built a distinctly Humboldt life across comic books, real estate, and vinyl. He joins Scott Hammond to trace the path from growing up in Myrtletown and running a comic book business to a decades-long career in Humboldt real estate—...
#125. Planning, Housing, and the Push and Pull of Humboldt Growth | John Ford
John Ford, Director of Planning and Building for the County of Humboldt, talks with Scott Hammond about how planning, permitting, and code enforcement work in a county shaped by cannabis, housing pressure, and community debate. They get into ...
#124. The Long Work Behind Humboldt’s Trails, Housing, and Transit | Natalie Arroyo
Trails, housing, transit, and public art can take years of quiet work before the results become visible. Humboldt County District 4 Supervisor Natalie Arroyo joins Scott Hammond to discuss her eight years on the Eureka City Council, the project...
#123. What Humboldt’s Homeless Services Are Really Facing | Anjali Browning
Anjali Browning joins Scott Hammond for a conversation about homeless services, applied anthropology, and the work of building capacity for local nonprofits in Humboldt. She talks about Arcata House Partnership, Project Roomkey and Homekey, hou...
#122. Aging in Rural Humboldt: Meals, Medicare, and the Care Gap | Maggie Kraft
Maggie Kraft joins Scott Hammond for a conversation about the Area 1 Agency on Aging and the everyday work of helping older adults in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. She talks about how A1AA fits into the Older Americans Act system, why rural ...
#121. How Ferndale Takes Care of Its Seniors | Leira Satlof
Leira Satlof joins Scott Hammond for a conversation about her path through Humboldt County, from Dell’Arte roots and Ferndale Repertory Theatre to food trucks, gardening, and her current work leading the Ferndale Senior Resource Agency. She t...
#120. Carol Jacobson on Music, Teaching, and the Eureka Symphony
Carol Jacobson joins Scott Hammond for a conversation about music, teaching, and the Humboldt community that shaped her life and work. She talks about leading the Eureka Symphony, teaching high school music, performing professionally in Europe,...
#119. Bill Barnum on Housing, Redwood, and Humboldt’s Future
Bill Barnum returns to the 100% Humboldt podcast for a wide-ranging conversation with Scott Hammond about Humboldt County’s past, present, and future. They talk about redwood, timber, housing, downtown Eureka parking lots, population growth, lo...
#118. Dr. Richard Carvajal: Coming Home to Lead Cal Poly Humboldt
Dr. Richard Carvajal, the new president of Cal Poly Humboldt, sits down with Scott Hammond for a conversation about growing up in Humboldt, the mentos who changed his life, and what it means to come home to lead the university. They talk about ...
#117. Claudia Lima on Timber, Art, and Making a Life in Humboldt
Claudia Lima talks with Scott Hammond about growing up in Julian, studying animal science at Cal Poly, working in wholesale lumber, and building a life in Humboldt County with her husband John and their family. She reflects on the timber indust...
#116. Deanna Dick on Midwifery, Home Birth, and Humboldt's Changing Birth Landscape
Deanna Dick talks with Scott Hammond about growing up in Tahoe, coming to Humboldt State, studying Spanish and psychology, and following mission work and midwifery training from Canada and Southeast Asia to Australia and Nigeria. She shares how...
#115. Carol Ryder on Humboldt Light Opera Company, Voice Teaching, and Finding Her Path in Music
Carol Ryder talks with Scott Hammond about growing up in Fortuna, studying first in nursing and political science, then finding her way into voice, opera, and teaching. She describes how a performance at Humboldt State changed her course, what ...
#114. Bill Chino: Service, Community, and the Arcata Restaurant Years
Bill Chino sits down with Scott Hammond to talk through a long Arcata run in restaurants, bars, and old-town buildings, from The Far Side Cafe and Abruzzi to the newly reopened Plaza Grill. Along the way he tells the story of coming west from L...
#113. Two Degrees in Humboldt: Toby Tullis on Radio, Recovery, and Belonging
Toby Tullis talks through the winding path that brought him to Humboldt, from Bay Area roots and restaurant work to radio, digital marketing, and a life built around community. He gets into sobriety, parenting, spirituality, and the way this pl...
#112. Solomon Everta on Eureka Books, Omnibus, and the Stories That Build Community
Scott Hammond sits down with Solomon Everta for a conversation rooted in Old Town Eureka, local business, mutual aid, and the kind of community life that only makes sense when you’ve actually lived here awhile. Solomon talks about coming to Hum...
#111. Peggy Murphy: How Humboldt County Grows Business Without Selling Out
Humboldt needs good jobs, a stronger tax base, and a plan that doesn’t depend on the next boom saving us. I sit down with Peggy Murphy, the County of Humboldt’s Economic Development Director, to get specific about what economic development real...
#110. Jennifer Budwig: From Ferndale Roots to Leading a Community Bank in Humboldt County
Humboldt County has a way of making every big question feel personal. When an industry rises, families build their lives around it. When it falls, the whole community feels the aftershock in jobs, housing, nonprofits, and the stories we tell ou...
#109. Miles Slattery | Humboldt’s Crossroads: Growth, Grit, And Going Big
Tired of boom-bust promises that never land? We sit down with Eureka City Manager Miles Slattery for a frank, fast-moving look at what actually gets built, what stalls out, and how we change the rules so progress sticks. From a scrappy surf-kid...
#108. Leslie Castellano | Art, Transit, And A Kinder Eureka
What if the way we move our bodies could change how we move a city forward? We sit down with artist-organizer and Eureka Councilmember Leslie Castellano to explore how dance, art, housing, and transit can pull a fractured community back into rh...
#107. Jan Friedrichsen: Veteran Rescuer Explains How Search Dogs Track, Find, And Bring People Home
A missing hiker. A cold night. A single clue: the faint scent left on a car’s gas cap. That’s enough for Jan Friedrichsen and her K9 partners to turn uncertainty into a plan—and a plan into a save. We sit down with Jan, commander of Humboldt Co...
