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Are you familiar with cattle egrets? Host Amanda McNulty explains how to identify them on this episode of "Making It Grow."

This week we’ll be talking about the life and career of the man that many call the Father of American opera: Carlisle Floyd. Our guests are Floyd's neice, Jane Matheny, and his biographer, Thomas Holliday. A native of Latta, South Carolina, Carlisle Floyd became a professor of composition at Florida State University in 1947. His magnum opus, Susannah, was first performed in 1955 and became the most performed American opera, second to Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.Floyd was both composer and librettist of his operas, which typically portrayed themes common to rural America, especially the post-Civil War South. 2026 in the centennial of Carlisle Floyd’s birth and today we’ll talk with our guests about his long life and his career.

Host Amanda McNulty of "Making It Grow" explains how the sweetbay magnolia helps sustain a variety of wildlife.

In their book, Reconstruction beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris have brought together the best new scholarship, synthesizing social, political, economic, and cultural approaches to understanding a crucial period in our country’s history. They talk with us about how the their project came about, and about how many "reconstructions" our country has seen since the Civil War.

Since 1970, we’ve lost three billion North American birds and experienced declines in native bees, other beneficial insects, and our recycling decomposers in large part due to the use of pesticides.

Bacillus thuringiensis, variety israelensis, is a naturally occurring bacterium that only acts on mosquito larvae.

This week, Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Phayvanh Pecha about treating children born with cleft lip and palate.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Neena Champaigne about checking for hidden health disorders with S.C. newborn screening.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Christopher Goodier about why the flu vaccination is especially important during pregnancy

Host Amanda McNulty of "Making It Grow" shares more childhood stories of her unusual pets, their favorite foods, and the foods she and her family enjoyed.