For this Fork in the Road, Charles Renaud returns to Pecan Ridge Plantation in Southern Georgia to meet Eric Cohen and his Black Lab, Tate. Tate has been trained to hunt for truffles, a mushroom prized by chefs...
WFSU's Franky Verdecia spoke with two sisters responsible for the creation of a group called Tallahassee Rocks. Thousands of Facebook members have joined this online group where they share images and stories about the rocks they've painted, hidden or...
In 2019, the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension organized the first ever Great Georgia Pollinator Census. Citizen scientists from across the state counted pollinators such as butterflies, bees, wasps, and flies, and other insects (everything from praying mantises to...
A Message from Mark
This story came to us from loyal and alert viewer Mark. Mark is somewhat “well known”, so I am withholding his last name so that he will become less “well known”. The thing about Mark is...
The 4 members of Belle and the Band (Kathryn Belle Long, Mickey Abraham, Kevin Robertson, and Mike Snelling) talk about what it was like to with a Suncoast Regional Emmy for creating the Local Routes Theme Song and why...
LOCAL ROUTES producer, Rob Diaz de Villegas joined program host Suzanne Smith for a chat about his work on LOCAL ROUTES. She asked him about how he became interested in ecology, his favorite stories, and about finding bands to...
The Journey to St. Joe
Mist blanketed the sleepy towns and tiny farms on our drive to the border of Mexico Beach & Port St. Joe, Florida. The station’s SUV had a full tank of gas and the cup holders...
At this “Fork in the Road,” Charles Renaud introduces us to Carson Sapp, a high school junior from Cairo, Georgia who is a world class archer. Carson's skill with a compound bow has taken him across the country...
Digging into the history of one of the Tallahassee region's most unique public gardens.
