Rebekah Berndt, writer, spiritual director and psychic reader, talks to us from Charleston, South Carolina about her love of weird and magical bookshops, their often eccentric owners, how she cares fo

Steve Wick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, formerly of Newsday and more recently editor of the Suffolk Times, talks about his earlier work, two new upcoming books, the importance of local

Riverhead farmer Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht talks about the twenty years of growing her Garden of Eve Farm and advocating for organic farmers, most recently as Northeast Region Farmer Representative of OFA,

Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex

Nancy DePas Reinertsen and Ralph Reinertsen, retired educators who have recently launched the North Fork branch of ReWild Long Island with Sustainable Gardening at Custer Preserve in Southold, describ

Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a

Margery Daughtrey, PhD, plant pathologist in the department of Ornamental Pathology at Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center of Cornell University,talks about beech leaf disease (B

Dr. Yara Asi, author of How War Kills; The Overlooked Threats to our Health (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) and New York Times guest essay, is assistant professor at the University of Central

John Christian Phifer is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral

Kimberly Coburn, writer, maker, founder of The Homestead Atlanta and leader in a movement seeking to remedy todays skills amnesia by reclaiming pre-industrialization crafts and skillssuch as ferme