It's not the wildest week for birders. The shorebirds haven't quite arrived in large numbers, and it's a little quiet in the woods. So Alain Clavette got an update on a bank swallow project in Shediac.

It's been an especially challenging spring for many farmers in the region. First the flooding, then the frosty nights. Potato Lane Vegetables in Keswick struggled with both. The farm stand on route 105 was flooded - and some cucumbers and squash were lost to the frost. But operator Gary Stephens says the newly renovated farm stand opened yesterday.

A mother-daughter team are touring across Eastern Canada and the U.S. with their play about a homeless countess, and her friendship with a rebellious teenage girl. And playwright Victoria Goring is hiring performers along the way. She's still looking for actors to perform at the Fundy Fringe Festival in Saint John this August.

When Fredericton high school student Cameron Ritchie started his odd job business last year, he never dreamed it would be so successful. Now Homewurk is expanding.

The Sierra Club's Watch for Wildlife road safety program is expanding into New Brunswick.

Libraries are for everyone - at least now. But they weren't in Saint Andrews in 1815. In fact, the local library was a rather exclusive club.

We'll meet the man behind Mildred - one of the spectacular cars on display at the Atlantic National in Moncton.

Our birder, Alain Calvette, extols the virtues of birding from the water on a canoe.

We talk to two strawberry growers: Melissa Ashburn at the Gilbert Farm in Burton and Madeleine Céré of Les Petits Fruits de Pré-d'en-Haut in the Memramcook Valley.

People who live on the street or in rooming houses have difficulty getting out of the heat. Darcy Cormier of the Greater Moncton Homelessness Steering Committee tells us how local shelters are helping out.