Continuing with my discussions about permaculture today Amy Antonucci called in to WKXL and NH Unscripted to chat up the Seacoast Permaculture Group as well as her homestead. She teaches workshops on homesteading topics including: permaculture, soil building, no-till gardening, composting, herbal infusions, beekeeping, goats, poultry, cheese and yogurt making, and food preservation. She has spoken at libraries, schools, garden clubs, at the NOFA-NH winter conference, and on the radio. She began growing food in 1995 on a local organic farm and CSA. She later became a certified permaculture designer and transitioned to homesteading and teaching others. She now keeps poultry, goats, plants and builds soil at Living Land Permaculture Homestead in Barrington, NH. She is the main organizer for Seacoast NH Permaculture and was proud to be named Leading Gardener of 2017 and Mentor of the Year in 2022 by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of NH.

Is the third time the charm or the curse? The charm of course!! Attorney Jim Rosenberg from the law offices of Shaheen & Gordon drops by for his third visit. The topic? Forget about it!! I had to toss the topic sheet out the window because Jim came loaded for bear. He’s like a verbal machine gun. He can hit more topics in the first 5 minutes than I can hope we’ll hit in total hour we have together. Keno, March Madness, trips to NYC, black ice hockey tournaments, tips on getting to NYC, inflation and he even managed to sneak in a little politics. That just the first segment!!! He’s a great guest, brilliant mind, incredible memory and excellent story teller. Yup, third time was a charm.

I called him a renaissance man. My friend John Marshall stopped by WKXL and NH Unscripted to talk with me about biochar, herbs, roasting his own coffee beans, working on his truck, acting and a heckuva lot more!!

It’s time to party at Dive In Productions!! Celebrating their 10th anniversary, Marina Altschiller-Gannon (founder) and Jordan Formichelli (Artistic Director) came by the studio to chat up their celebration. March 29th at the Millspace in Newmarket, NH will be the day they pop the cork with Performances from Dive In’s past productions including: The Upside of Being Down, Moments: A Song Cycle, Little Shop of Horrors, Dogfight, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lizzie and sooooo much more. They also dropped some hints about their upcoming season and a shout out to Tim Goss!

Part time commercial actor Pattiann Graham dropped by the WKXL studios and spoke with NH Unscripted host Ray Dudley about how she stumbled into doing commercials, what it was like being on set, some of her favorite shoots (Wayfair, Honda, Al Terry) and gave some tips for any newbies that might want to give commercials a try. She also gives some hilarious personal stories from her life. Oh yeah, and she’s also my sister!!!

I’m telling you I’m in love with permaculture and so today I had Amy and Ethan Sager, from the Again & Again Farmstead in Tamworth, come by to chat up their farm. Their diversified farm produces growing supplies, wool products, flower bouquets, and ethically grown fruit and vegetables using non-certified organic methods. We talked about biochar, vermiculture (worms), no-till gardening, heritage breed chickens, ducks and sheep (and all the great wool that comes from them) and a heckuva lot more!!

Springtime is peaking its’ head around the corner and that means gardening and I’m particularly fond of permaculture gardening. Dunstan Smith from The Hummingbird Center in Dorchester, NH drops in to chat about all things permaculture and organic at the Center. The Center is an active permaculture farm with a 26-year perennial food system and hosts tours. It has a huge cob pizza oven, solar dehydrator, two outdoor solar heated showers, has classes for yoga, sound baths, has a literal farm to table restaurant called Nourish and can accommodate campers. The Hummingbird Center will begin offering yoga-based retreats with diverse programming ranging from edible wild plant walks to paint therapy, meditation, cooking classes, guided hikes, and much more.

It’s almost springtime and that means birds are chirping, bunnies are running around and Artistic Directors are scouring the landscape looking for talent for their upcoming seasons of shows! What exactly does that process look like? How do they choose who to make an offer to? Where do they even go to audition them? Well lucky for us Joel Mercier, Artistic Director for the North Country Center for the Arts, drops in to explain all of that as well as discuss their upcoming season which will feature The Secret Garden, CATS, Little Shop of Horrors and Stephen King’s Misery!

When WKXL's NH Unscripted needs a little attitude and sass that’s when it’s time to bring in the big guns and so today Angèlica Forcier Rosenthal from the Actors Cooperative Theatre is back for a repeat visit. She’s directing “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” for the Milford Area Players and she lays it all out there!! I love her honest, don’t give you-know-what approach to life. We also get to catch up on what’s happening in Derry with the Actors Cooperative Theatre. Open and refreshing.

“It’s never too late to start” is more than just a cute saying. David Afflick came by NH Unscripted to discuss how he took it to heart, applied to his life and turned his focus toward acting. His resume now glows with commercials for companies like Ocean State Job Lot, Direct TV, Tufts Health Plans, East Boston Savings Bank and NH Realtors as well as roles in films that have shown in the Cannes Film Festival and one that’s on Amazon! When and how he did it plus advice for others that are thinking about dipping their toes into acting are all on the table.