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Media Update: Help Us Celebrate our 50th Anniversary with Your Memories of NPT

Published on July 9, 2012 By Joe Pagetta

  This September, NPT will celebrate its 50th Anniversary, and we want you to help us mark the occasion.  From our humble beginnings as school board-licensed station WDCN, to our stature now as NPT and one of the most-watched public television stations in the country, a lot has happened in 50 years.  You have made [...]

A Look at the Six Months Ahead at NPT

Published on January 10, 2011 By Joe Pagetta

From new episodes in our Tennessee Civil War 150, NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis and Next Door Neighbors documentary projects, to a third volume of our popular 20th Century in Photographs series, to a public screening and event surrounding the Freedom Riders documentary, 2011 is going to be an amazing year of great programming and events [...]

Go Grocery Store Shopping with Tammy Algood

Published on November 17, 2010 By Joe Pagetta

In this bonus clip from the NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis: Obesity documentary, which premieres on Thursday, November 18 at 8 p.m. and online the following day, Food Marketing Specialist, Southern cook extraordinaire and Volunteer Gardener regular Tammy Algood takes you on a tour of a local grocery store to explore how grocery stores manipulate [...]

Gardeners: Let`s Do Our Part to Conserve Water

Published on May 5, 2010 By Joe Pagetta

Julie Berbiglia, Volunteer Gardener producer and outreach coordinator for Metro Water Services, has a special message about water conservation, especially for her fellow gardeners: Metro Water Services and Mayor Karl Dean are asking all of us to conserve water. Gardeners, let’s do our part! Please turn off all irrigation systems, and please do not water [...]

Barbara Mandrell on Volunteer Gardener

Published on July 24, 2009 By Joe Pagetta

On the heels of her induction to the Country Music Hall of Fame, Barbara Mandrell will appear on NPT’s Volunteer Gardener to support her latest project, the Nashville Music Garden. Located at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Demonbreun (in the Hall of Fame Park just across the street from the Schermerhorn Symphony Center), the [...]

A CONVERSATION WITH NPT'S JOE DELMERICO ON MUSIC AND MORE

Published on January 8, 2008 By Joe Pagetta

Last year, Volunteer Gardener, one of NPT’s most beloved series, underwent a little facelift, with new intro graphics and a new theme song. The job of composing the theme music went to our own Joe DelMerico, who although his job title is “Web Developer,” is (first and foremost) a talented guitarist and BMI-affiliated composer who [...]

THE BAREFOOT FARMER IN THE TENNESSEAN

Published on September 24, 2007 By Joe Pagetta

Ken Beck has a great profile of Jeff Poppen, aka the Barefoot Farmer, in the Tennessean. NPT viewers will recognize Poppen from his appearances on Volunteer Gardener. Beck writes about Poppen’s upcoming biodynamic Harvest Festival, now its 12th year. The celebration, which takes place Friday through Sunday at Long Hungry Creek Farm near Red Boiling [...]