Collaboration can be magical, it’s true.

We see it in a friendship that bloomed online and is benefiting a community facing agricultural crisis.Chef Neftali Duran talks about a fundraiser for Proyecto Rosenda. In addition to letting us know which Mezcal brands genuinely benefit the indigenous community that invented the spirit, we hear about how the non-profit he started to aid the area in reforestation, crop diversity, and climate change resilience is doing, and how Laura Reed got involved in wanting to help.

There’s the amazing collaboration of promoters and musicians that are doing their best to expand the ears of the listeners of Western Mass. This weekend the Music CSA program Secret Planet hosts the festival An Almost Spring Weekender at Race Brook Lodge in Sheffield, which will bring DJs, Bands and music makers from all over the world to the Berkshires. We chat with organizer Edo Mor, and have a performance by one of the band that is not only playing the festival, but at an additional show at The Drake on March 7th: Orchestra Gold.

And our weekly chat with Congressman Jim McGovern delves into some of the more tedious aspects of his legislative calling, namely the State of the Union Address.