{"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":"Less lawn, more wildlife! Here’s how to ditch turf for native plants","slug":"less-lawn-more-wildlife-here-s-how-to-ditch-turf-for-native-plants","published_at":"2025-05-06T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514/less-lawn-more-wildlife-here-s-how-to-ditch-turf-for-native-plants","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514","url":"https://www.kcur.org/2025-05-06/less-lawn-more-wildlife-heres-how-to-ditch-turf-for-native-plants","audio_url":"https://dovetail.prxu.org/10752/20457732-4c35-463f-8ffc-3249476fa251/Less_lawn__more_wildlife__Here_s_how_to_ditch_turf_for_native_plants.mp3","summary":"So you’ve been thinking about getting rid of your lawn, or at least having less. You’ll attract birds and bees and you won’t have to mow as much. Nice! But where to start? Master gardener Paula Diaz gives us the scoop on how to kill grass, where to look for the right native plant species to replace it, and how to start laying out your flower beds. Come learn from someone who’s been winning over her neighbors to give native plants a shot.","meta_description":"So you’ve been thinking about getting rid of your lawn, or at least having less. You’ll attract birds and bees and you won’t have to mow as much. Nice! Bu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1460,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/up-from-dust-6861514/episodes/less-lawn-more-wildlife-here-s-how-to-ditch-turf-for-native-plants/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/less-lawn-more-wildlife-here-s-how-to-ditch-turf-for-native-plants.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}