Nuevo Mexicano Miguel Santistevan is an artist farmer resercher, who at his Taos farm integrates sustanibility practices from multicultural and pragmatic perspectives.  Marco Trujillo and Sabina Jones from Roots and Wings interviewed Miguel to prepare for the documentary Water Right? which the school produced with the help of Daniel Hutchinson of Localogy a nonprofit providing comprehensive experiential education in local living.  This interview focuses on Miguels work through his nonprofit A.I.R.E, Agriculture Implementation Research and Education, with sustaibable crops as well as water issues.

Students from Roots and Wings Community School interview SW Author William DuBuys and Environmentalist Racheal Conn of Amigos Bravos about water issues in New Mexico.

Good Seed Bad Seed Youth Radio

Students have spent the year working on programs focusing on The Taos Poetry Team, The Bag Fee which the studentds are proposing to the Town of Taos as well as looking at the state of the economy by interviewing an Economist from Adams State College and small buisness owners in the Northern NM village of Questa.  The students have developed stories, interviewed experts, written scripts, recorded one another and learned some editing skills.  The class, Radio Head, works to create original and informative programs that our partners at, KRZA 88.7 FM in Alamosa Colorado, are proud to aire.

Service Learning and Community Service

Roots and Wings is dedicated to Service Learning where students learn more about themselves and thier community by volunteering.  This year different "crews" or in our case at RWCS classes have volunteered at places such as the Men's Homeless Shelter in Taos where they helped in the facility and worked to build a bench for people to rest on, Sol Feliz Farm where students helped create compost and worked to gather rocks to create a water catchment system, they have picked up trash in the Lama and Red River Communities and this past week students created a safe path to walk on from the Highway up Lama road going through Dr. Bud Wilson's Land, they mended fences, and created measuring devises for the Lama Acequia.  Our students did this along side Students from Southern Methodist University who are involved in Alternative Breaks, Spring Breaks that they spend Volunteering rather than partying.  SMU students worked to help our community on the outside, on the ranch, in our library and in our school helping students with one on one tutoring with Teacher supervision.  The upcoming show will focus on this type of learning.

New Good Seed Bad Seed airs today Monday Feb. 28th....

A new Good Seed Bad Seed is Airing Today February 28th...Our program airs the 4th Monday of each month from 8-8.30 am and again from 7.30-8pm on KRZA 88.7 FM  http://www.krza.org/

This months show was recorded at a Youth Water conference put on by Rich Schnider from River Source. Please feel free to make posts about the program.  I am still trying to figure out how to add audio to the blog so that you can all listen from here....

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Welcome to Good Seed Bad Seed Youth Radio from Roots and Wings Community School in Lama NM

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Welcome to RWCS's Good Seed Bad Seed Youth Radio we will be adding information about the radio programs that we work on and air on KRZA in Alamosa, CO. Please feel free to add information or comments to the blog.  Welcome welcome