“Herbal Medicine is People’s Medicine.” Herbalist Susun Weed explains the uses of several plants that grow wild in your lawn. We get a very brief history of the Wise Woman’s role in the history of human healing, and learn about slowing down enough to  listen to plants.

Choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke and photographer Mathew Pokoik, founders and directors of Mount Tremper Arts, discuss the importance of art in building community and community in building the arts.

How can children in the modern urban world experience the direct relationship with nature that is integral to human survival? By going to Farm Camp! John Chartier is Frost Valley YMCA’s Farm Director and Erin Hall is the Farm Camp Program Director. John & Erin foster a farm community where city children can return to basics, learning about where their food comes from and how to tend the animals. The kids find new wonders in everyday things as they explore the natural world around them.

Sylvester “Pete” Taliaferro of Taliaferro Farms of New Paltz talks about contemporary farming and community supported agriculture (CSA).

We speak with Eva Gottscho, founder of The Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation. Eva Gottscho is an active 95-year-old woman with a remarkable story to tell about how she turned her personal tragedy of losing her daughter into triumph for children who suffer from kidney disease, and their families.

We also speak with Jerry Huncosky, the CEO of Frost Valley YMCA. Frost Valley teams with the Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation to bring children with kidney disease to summer camp.

Guest host Michelle Spark talks about learning the value of community and her role as a citizen when a river threatened to wash away back yards all along her street.

We talk to Sybil Rosen Thomas and Bill Bouris about building a library from scratch in Whitesburg, GA, with the help of the Rural Library Project. Rosen Thomas is the author of the forth-coming book, Living in the Woods in a Tree, about her years with Texas music legend Blaze Foley.

We also speak to James Krueger, the Executive Director of the Pine Hill Community Center in Pine Hill, NY