Summary: Making Sense Of The Senate's Giant US Farm Bill: The US Senate passed sweeping legislation last week that could shape agriculture and food policy for years to come. Two years in the making, the one–thousand–page bill cuts current spending by $23 billion, mostly by cutting crop subsidies and conservation funding as well as making changes to the food stamps program. It also includes a provision on cockfighting. (It's a really big bill.) Senators praised the measure as bipartisan reform, but the Farm Bill faces tougher opposition in the House. Exploring Wild Eastern Washington: Eastern Washington's landscape of dams, farms and small towns hides another landscape — and evidence of a cataclysm. Eighteen thousand years ago an ice dam burst and the waters of a giant lake roared across the plateau, carving long valleys, scouring off the top soil and tumbling basalt columns. If you know where to look, you can see the evidence of that great Ice Age flood. We take a virtual tour with John Soennichsen, author of "Washington's Channeled Scablands Guide," and wonder whether there might be a better term to use to entice folks than channeled scablands. Greendays Gardening Panel: Open Phones! The Greendays gardening panel joins us once again to offer their guidance for your gardening projects. What gardening undertakings are you involved with? We'll take your questions at 1.800.289.5869.
