Prescribing Parks Not Pills / Fifth And Mission / New Arrivals: Jose Antonio Villaran

What if your doctor prescribed you a walk in the park instead of a pill? In this episode we learn abou a program that gets patients back to health, by getting them back to nature. Then, we hear from the host of the San Francisco Chronicle flagship news podcast, Fifth and Mission. And, a reading from local poet Jose Antonio Villaran. Plus, local music from Oakland's Consolidated Electric.

• Prescription For Health: How Parks Can Replace Pills
• Meeting the co-host of Fifth and Mission Cecilia Le

• Jose Antonio Villaran writes poems about mining, natural resource extraction