Lisa Morehouse

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Lisa Morehouse is a public radio reporter whose work has taken her from Samoan traveling circuses to Mississippi Delta classrooms. Her work can be heard on The California Report, The World and NPR’s Latino USA and Weekend Edition. For her series California Foodways, Morehouse is reporting county-by-county, exploring the intersections of food, culture, economics, history and labor. In addition to reporting, she teaches radio production to at-risk youth in the Bay Area.

Reporting for FERN

How the railroad shaped agriculture and civil rights in California

Lisa Morehouse, December 23, 2024

The California Report

The divers who keep the water flowing on California’s farms

Lisa Morehouse, August 12, 2024

The California Report

Peach farmer ‘Mas’ Masumoto talks about farming with ghosts

Lisa Morehouse, May 17, 2023

The California Report

Is the Ojai Pixie dust?

Lisa Morehouse, July 10, 2022

The California Report

This farm relies on birds — not pesticides — to control pests

Lisa Morehouse, July 6, 2021

The California Report

Where beef is more than dinner

Lisa Morehouse, January 22, 2019

The California Report

An invasive, elusive 20-pound rodent threatens California agriculture

Lisa Morehouse and Angela Johnston, December 2, 2018

The California Report

Can agriculture and wildlife co-exist? Rice farmers think so.

Lisa Morehouse, April 8, 2018

The California Report

Without their salmon, the Yurok search for meaning

Lisa Morehouse, October 15, 2017

The California Report

In rural Northern California, feeding people where food is scarce

Lisa Morehouse, September 18, 2017

The California Report

Nancy’s Airport Cafe

Lisa Morehouse, June 23, 2017

The California Report

Tiny, Rural High School Wins Statewide Culinary Prize

Lisa Morehouse, April 29, 2017

The California Report

Farmers behind barbed-wire fences: 75 years later, Japanese-Americans remember incarceration during World War Two

Lisa Morehouse, February 13, 2017

The California Report

Drought, fire, and now healing in a California farm community

Lisa Morehouse, April 26, 2016

The California Report

Preserving Gold Rush-era Heritage Trees With Amigo Bob Cantisano

Lisa Morehouse, January 17, 2016

The California Report

The Forgotten Filipino-Americans Who Led the ’65 Delano Grape Strike

Lisa Morehouse, September 4, 2015

The California Report

Borderlands Food Bank: Cutting Food Waste at The Border

Lisa Morehouse, April 10, 2015