This article is about the American children's series. For the former children's block on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, see Kids' CBC

Kids' CBC

Kids' CBC is a preschool commercial-free programming block aired weekday mornings on CBC Television.Currently, the hosts of the block are Patty Sullivan and Sid Bobb.-History:...

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Hodgepodge Lodge (sometimes spelled Hodge-Podge Lodge) was a children's television show produced by Maryland Public Broadcasting

Maryland Public Television

Maryland Public Television is a non-profit, state-licensed Public Broadcasting Service non-commercial educational public television state network which serves U.S. state of Maryland. Its six transmitters cover nearly all of the state, plus Washington, D.C...

 and shown on a number of PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

 stations from 1970 to 1977, hosted by Miss Jean Worthley

Jean Worthley

Jean Reese Worthley is a naturalist. She was the host of Maryland Public Broadcasting's children's nature show Hodgepodge Lodge and co-host of On Nature's Trail. She is also the author of The Complete Family Nature Guide which was published in 1976. Mrs. Worthley, wife of the late botanist Elmer...

. It featured the quiet Miss Jean introducing elementary age children to wild animals and other nature topics (e.g. trees) in a calm setting around the namesake lodge.

Hodge Podge Lodge was aired on PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

stations on the East Coast and syndicated for the rest of the nation in the early and mid-1970s. The host introduced the wonders of nature to national audiences, which included inner-city children, many of whom had never seen a garden or an animal in a setting other than a zoo. Miss Jean would do everything from opening up a pine cone and exploring its depths (which might have led to the discovery of an interesting beetle or worm), to examining the habitat of a hedgehog or a red fox. Miss Jean was always gentle in her approach to nature, and may arguably have been one of the leaders of our modern conservationist movement.