{"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":"Why you should kill your lawn","slug":"why-you-should-kill-your-lawn","published_at":"2026-06-15T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514/why-you-should-kill-your-lawn","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/up-from-dust-6861514","url":"https://www.kcur.org/2026-06-15/why-you-should-kill-your-lawn","audio_url":"https://dovetail.prxu.org/10752/766f131a-85bb-47f8-bbc0-4b2db76a49f8/LifeKit_With_Our_Intro_And_-18lufs.mp3","summary":"All summer long, we run mowers over our lawns to keep them the perfect height – and run sprinklers to keep them emerald green. Add fertilizer and weedkillers into the mix, and it’s a real resource drain. But there’s something else about lawns: They’re inhospitable to most wildlife. Celia joins Marielle Segarra on NPR’s Life Kit to explain how to push back against American lawn culture by killing a small patch of grass and turning it into a wildlife friendly garden.","meta_description":"All summer long, we run mowers over our lawns to keep them the perfect height – and run sprinklers to keep them emerald green. Add fertilizer and weedkill…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1266,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/up-from-dust-6861514/episodes/why-you-should-kill-your-lawn/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/why-you-should-kill-your-lawn.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}