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David Byrne and crew brought some joy to the Tiny Desk recently. This has to be one of my all-time favorites:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmc...
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David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmcF6eRE7w
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🎉📚Happy books day! NPR's Books We Love 2025 (formerly the Book Concierge) is up.
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2025
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has live results from key elections: VA gov, NJ gov, NYC mayor, CA redistricting prop, and 2 CO ballot props:
apps.npr.org/2025-electio...
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2025 Election Results: Live
View interactive maps and live results for key U.S. elections in New Jersey, Virginia, California, New York City and Colorado.
https://apps.npr.org/2025-election-results/
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📊🔊 Data sonification: New Orleans' rising temperatures, conveyed via the tempo of a brass band's music
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Hear New Orleans' rising temperatures in music
Average temperatures have been going up in many cities, including New Orleans. Here's what those higher temperatures sound like.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5507128
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I just realized that Illustrator and Photoshop's versions of the "Save for Web" panel have the Save/Cancel/Done buttons in the same place but in different order. Maybe that's why I always accidentally cancel out of them so often — I mean to click "Save" but click "Done" by mistake.
3 months ago
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Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds
#mapshaper
#turfjs
#flubber
#svelte5
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Got to nerd out a little about world maps.
www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n...
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African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5508358/mercator-map-africa
3 months ago
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College students and recent grads: Come intern at NPR this fall/winter! Apply by June 30. ➡️ Graphics + Web Archivist internship (with my team + our Research, Archives & Data Strategy team):
job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
➡️ All internships:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
Today marks 9 years since NPR colleagues David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed on assignment in Afghanistan. The memorial display at NPR honors their memory. The camera David was carrying when he died is on the left. We remember them on this day and always.
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Coming soon: Fall/Winter 2025 internships at
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. Watch this space:
www.npr.org/about-npr/18...
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Want To Be An NPR Intern?
A learning experience like no other. Find out how you can contribute your diverse talents to gain invaluable experience at the heart of a thriving multimedia organization.
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/181881227/want-to-be-an-npr-intern
6 months ago
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Join my team at NPR! We're hiring for a senior graphics reporter. Remote-friendly (in the US).
grnh.se/f78153425us
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Senior Graphics Reporter
Remote
https://grnh.se/f78153425us
7 months ago
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TIMELINES: 100 days of major Trump admin actions re: DOGE, immigration, tariffs, foreign policy, retribution, civil rights and Signalgate, compiled by Domenico Montanaro
@npr.org
@heidiglenn.bsky.social
. SO MUCH has happened in the past 3 months; it's really something to see it listed out.
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In first 100 days, Trump tests limits, creates chaos and turns from allies
From foreign policy and tariffs to immigration changes and targeting of DEI, here's a look back at some of the major moves made in the past 100 days of President Trump's second administration.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5379594/trump-100-days
7 months ago
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🌸 Update to this project, just in time for spring:
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added support for zip code search and made transition animations sensitive to whether `prefers-reduced-motion` is set.
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
Fascinating deep-dive on an 1855 railroad company org chart, unearthed in the Library of Congress archives:
www.c82.net/blog/?id=98
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Making of the New York and Erie Railroad organizational diagram
Org charts tend to be a rather boring affair—with their lists of names and who reports to whom—but they didn’t start out that way. One of the first in American business, is a stunning portrait of a cl...
https://www.c82.net/blog/?id=98
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@ximenabustillo.bsky.social
did extensive reporting and research for this, and we worked together to boil this complex process down into a series of flowcharts. Thanks as well to to editor Anna Yukhananov, art director
@emilybogle.bsky.social
, illustrator Ana Galvañ and copy editor Pam Webster.
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8 months ago
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The back-and-forth volley of tariff threats so far this year:
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It's been a wild rollout of Trump's tariffs. Here's how we got here
President Trump's tariff talk has been big — and also unpredictable. He's frequently made threats only to back off or shift deadlines. Here, a look at how the tariff agenda has rolled out.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5345926/trump-tariffs-timeline
8 months ago
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New project: An Israeli strike on a Gaza apartment building killed 132 members of one family in October 2024. It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Israel-Hamas war. The few survivors documented the dead via handwritten lists, which they shared with NPR.
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One family. One attack. 132 names. A Gaza investigation.
More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war with Hamas, Gaza health officials say. We reconstructed what happened in one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the war.
https://apps.npr.org/gaza-building-israel-strike-casualties/
8 months ago
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This illustrated/animated NYT essay about agoraphobia and the grocery store is so beautifully done.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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An Agoraphobe Goes to the Grocery Store
It had been more than 365 days since I went to the supermarket. So I steeled myself and ventured out.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/14/magazine/agoraphobia-grocery-store.html
9 months ago
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9 months ago
As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact-check and offer context as the speech unfolds.
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Follow NPR's annotated fact check of President Trump's address to Congress
As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact check and offer context as the speech unfolds.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/g-s1-50488/trump-congress-joint-address-fact-check
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9 months ago
Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.
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Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at 74
Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5316274/kee-malesky-nprs-research-librarian-for-more-than-20-years-has-died-at-74
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A look at the relative contagiousness of measles and other viruses, the role vaccination plays, and vaccination rates in TX counties.
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As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really?
Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312088/measles-texas-outbreak-contagious-spread
9 months ago
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I enjoy the use of sliders / interactivity here to demonstrate data viz literacy concepts.
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9 months ago
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10 months ago
More than a third of the contracts DOGE posted online would not actually save any money if canceled, according to DOGE themselves. In all, estimated savings from the initial DOGE list of just over 500 contracts that
@npr.org
found to be cancelled runs closer to $2 billion.
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Recently on the team blog: Elections developer Shajia Abidi wrote about some experiments with AP testing and results data, Github Actions and Slack notifiers.
blog.apps.npr.org/2025/01/29/e...
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Elections Slackbots
How we used GitHub and Slack to stay up to date during the 2024 election season.
https://blog.apps.npr.org/2025/01/29/election-bots.html
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Update (3pm ET on February 5th): the Census FTP site, including the ACS flat files and TIGER/Line shapefiles, is back up! This means that your
#rstats
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#Python
Census geodata packages are now working as normal. Get your data now!
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10 months ago
Everything is a 403 right now, e.g.
www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TI...
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In love with this Reuters piece about cozy games that is itself a cozy game.
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Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety.
Explore a charming town, meet quirky villagers, and take in the cozy vibes!
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/VIDEO-GAMES/MENTAL-HEALTH/akpeewkqgpr/
10 months ago
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Worth a listen: NPR's producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, reflects on reporting and living through the war. (from late December)
www.npr.org/2024/12/29/n...
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A snapshot of a year spent reporting and living through war, from NPR's producer in Gaza
NPR's producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, reflects on his year of reporting on the war and living through it.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5230368/a-snapshot-of-a-year-spent-reporting-and-living-through-war-from-nprs-producer-in-gaza
10 months ago
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Since Feb. 2021,
@npr.org
has followed all the known January 6 defendants as they've gone through the legal process. Here's the database:
www.npr.org/2021/02/09/9...
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The Jan. 6 attack: The cases behind the biggest criminal investigation in U.S. history
More than 1,570 people have been federally charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. NPR is tracking each case from the initial charges through sentencing.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories
11 months ago
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Love this deep dive into "Goodnight Moon" 🐰🌙 by two of my favorite modern children's book authors, Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen:
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Goodnight Moon
Jon and Mac consider: the plight of the picture book author, wildlife trafficking, tangenting, disappearing socks, death, life, and mush
https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/goodnight-moon
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New collab w/
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: The 124 best songs of 2024, in a filterable grid format.
www.npr.org/2024/12/04/g...
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The 124 Best Songs of 2024
2024 was a year of breakthroughs, with new stars storming the top of the charts and artists across genres making modern classics. NPR Music's list of best songs of the year has something for everyone.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/g-s1-34686/best-songs-2024
12 months ago
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Between sales and holiday greetings, I'm reminded this is a great time of year to prune all the email lists that I'm on.
about 1 year ago
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New on the team blog: Remember that wonderful project about USDA plant hardiness zones from earlier this year?
@danielpwwood.bsky.social
, with an assist from Brent Jones, wrote up how the map stack worked:
blog.apps.npr.org/2024/11/26/s...
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about 1 year ago
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Useful new-to-me Google Docs feature: Right click on a selection of text and copy the snippet in Markdown format — links and everything. There's also a "Paste from Markdown" option to go the other direction.
support.google.com/docs/answer/...
about 1 year ago
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📚 Happy books day! NPR's Books We Love (formerly the Book Concierge) is back with reading recommendations for 2024.
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2024
about 1 year ago
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Always here for textile-based datavis. In this case: a bathymetry blanket.
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Stitching Science: Bringing Ocean Mapping Data to Life with Crochet: Beyond the Blue: Johnston Atoll Mapping: NOAA Ocean Exploration
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/okeanos-beyond-the-blue/ex2405-ex2406/features/stitching-science/stitching-science.html
about 1 year ago
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on incremental updates to official hurricane maps, and the work left to do:
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A new hurricane cone was meant to improve storm warnings. Many challenges remain.
Before the new version released this year, previous versions displayed only tropical storm and hurricane alerts in effect along the coast.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/11/13/hurricane-cone-change-forecasts/
about 1 year ago
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With the recent surge in users, I've once again updated the NPR / PBS / public media starter pack. Now with 50% more posting supported by viewers like you! If I'm missing someone who's active on Bluesky please do let me know. I'm more than happy to add folks as they arrive.
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What we did re: CT — Switched to township-level data/maps for New England states. Matching identifiers + related data was a pain. But it's lovely, thanks to Juweek Adolphe + Shajia Abidi, and hopefully more relevant for folks who live there.
apps.npr.org/2024-electio...
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about 1 year ago
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Am I on some kind of list? (Hopefully a good kind. 😰) I've gotten a surprising number of new followers here lately. Hi, all.
about 1 year ago
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It's election night in the United States. Follow along with special coverage and live results on NPR dot org.
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Live: Presidential Election Results 2024
View live results for the 2024 United States presidential election.
https://apps.npr.org/2024-election-results/
about 1 year ago
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New visual narrative around the shrinking Aral Sea — a collaboration between NPR's International, Visuals and Graphics teams:
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Central Asia’s Ticking Time Bomb: Water
The Aral Sea has nearly disappeared over the last 60 years. Now, its source rivers are depleting.
https://apps.npr.org/aral-sea-shrinking-map/
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I'm having to say "we'll need to figure what to do about Connecticut" an awful lot these days re: election results and historical data. 🫠 Context:
www.bls.gov/cew/classifi...
(My headaches aren't specific to this BLS survey, but it has a pretty succinct summary of what happened.)
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New 2024 Connecticut Counties
Brief leaf page displaying the old and new county codes for Connecticut
https://www.bls.gov/cew/classifications/areas/new-2024-connecticut-counties.htm
about 1 year ago
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New from NPR: How to register to vote in all the U.S. states, territories and DC
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"National Voter Registration Day" is a bit of an arbitrary holiday, but it's as good a peg as any to roll out this genuinely useful resource for the fall. Some deadlines are already near!
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How to register to vote, and check your registration status
Ahead of the 2024 general election, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state, territory and the District of Columbia.
https://apps.npr.org/voter-registration-2024-mail/
about 1 year ago
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JOB: NPR's arts and culture hub has a new fellowship to work on books coverage (including Books We Love). The program is named in memory of beloved books editor Petra Mayer. The job:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
More about Petra:
www.npr.org/2021/11/16/1...
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Job Application for Inaugural Petra Mayer Memorial Fellow, Arts and Culture Hub at NPR
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpublicradioinc/jobs/4460423005?fbclid=IwY2xjawE5aiVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaq-4XZLTRfAQYFX9Y909wTS2l-SF6bpQkqicuOrha5WvpR0ThPHnlwzZA_aem_w7B1I6nMo0NFkut3wxApxQ
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This NYT feature about NYC's best sandwiches is both simply-yet-beautifully designed and making me lament that lunch is still a few hours away.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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57 Sandwiches That Define New York City
A portrait of the five boroughs between two slices of bread.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/dining/best-nyc-sandwiches.html
over 1 year ago
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Had our first team hackday in way too long. Chipped away at some tech debt, explored a couple new workflows and pushed a new template. Also a little teambuilding-through-minor-adversity devising a shared live hackday playlist. 🤣
over 1 year ago
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New on the team blog: Connie Hanzhang Jin writes about their process for making news comics.
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How I make news comics
William L. Moore was murdered on a civil rights protest walk. Here's how I made a comic about one man's campaign to create a marker about it.
https://blog.apps.npr.org/2024/05/29/marker-comic.html
over 1 year ago
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My team, working with the Climate Desk, made something that's weird and joyful and useful. Repo link and blog post(s) to come. In the meantime, enjoy:
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The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
https://apps.npr.org/plant-hardiness-garden-map/
over 1 year ago
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