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Holly Cameron loves her church.

She has been the pastor of the New Scotland Presbyterian Church for 25 years.

“The church is a place to try to understand what is something larger than myself, both within that community of people, and with God,” she says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

She describes her becoming a pastor as a journey.

Cameron grew up in Alabama, in a time and place where women weren’t ministers. That time is not necessarily distant as this month delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting voted to amend their constitution to say their churches must have “only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”

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John Fritze Jr. is a dedicated ham radio operator and a third-generation jeweler. He is passionate about both his avocation and his vocation — and on the cutting edge of each.

Hams have a saying as they try to inform the public that amateur radio operators use the latest technology: “We like to say, ‘It’s not your grandpa’s hobby anymore,’” says Fritze in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

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When Scott Abraham read about farmers committing suicide, he decided to do something about it.He read about families that had owned their farms for generations but couldn’t carry on. “It was just too tough … They can’t find help,” he says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

He started a farmers’ market in Guilderland, near where he lived, and has a second market in Albany.

It’s a vital need for the community, Abraham says, to support local farmers while getting fresh produce and knowing where your food comes from.

He opened the original Guilderland market in 2018. Five years later, Abraham is starting a new venture: Meet Your Neighbors Open Market started this month and will run every Sunday in June from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as a “test run,” he said.

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In the way most of us breathe air — an essential intake to sustain life — Leonard A. Slade Jr. breathes poetry.

He inhales the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Langston Hughes, and breathes life into their words as he recites them as naturally as if he were exhaling. Their words, entwined in his thoughts, his very identity, flow naturally in conversation.

Slade writes his own poetry, reams of it, imbued with what he has learned from a lifetime of reading literature but uniquely and personally his.

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