{"podcast":{"title":"Up From Dust","slug":"up-from-dust-6861514","podcast_index_feed_id":6861514,"rss_url":"https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-from-dust/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-from-dust","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f1c0bd9/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3001x3001+0+0/resize/2000x2000!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F41%2F2d%2Fe31cab4b42a582dcc5aabe92f7d5%2Fufd-2026-1podcast-tile-3000x3000.png","author":"KCUR Studios (web@kcur.org)","episode_count":24,"summary":"Humans broke the environment — but we can heal it, too. Up From Dust is a podcast about the price of trying to shape the world around our needs, as seen from the Great Plains and the Midwest. Host Celia Llopis-Jepsen wanders across prairies, farm fields and suburbia to find the folks who are fixing our generational mistakes. From Harvest Public Media, KCUR Studios, and the NPR Network.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T18:18:24.178885+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514"},"episode":{"title":"Dry times on the High Plains","slug":"dry-times-on-the-high-plains","published_at":"2024-08-05T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514/dry-times-on-the-high-plains","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514","url":"https://www.kcur.org/2024-08-05/dry-times-on-the-high-plains","audio_url":"https://dovetail.prxu.org/10752/dd018a7b-cfa3-4401-9231-15b35580c557/audio.mp3","summary":"Ancient waters that lie deep beneath the dry High Plains helped to turn western Kansas into an agricultural powerhouse. But the Ogallala Aquifer’s wells have begun to run dry after decades of tapping it for our corn, wheat and cows. In the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains, we’ll learn how farmers are adjusting as the water disappears and hear how some are prodding state leaders to finally act.","meta_description":"Ancient waters that lie deep beneath the dry High Plains helped to turn western Kansas into an agricultural powerhouse. But the Ogallala Aquifer’s wells h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2678,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/up-from-dust-6861514/episodes/dry-times-on-the-high-plains/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514/dry-times-on-the-high-plains.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}