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 Chronicleflagship 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