My guests on this episode are Kelsey Brennan currently the farmer at Wakeman Town Farm in Westport Ct. She studied sustainable agriculture and development economics at the U of Conneticut and Christy Colasurdo – Events Director for the Wakeman Town Farm and author of The CT Farm Table Cookbook, a cookbook she co-wrote about 4 years ago paying homage to hardworking CT farmers and the talented local chefs who support them. She is the former co-chair of Wakeman Town Farm .

The Resistance panel interviews Dr. Gerald Horne, author and professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston, about lessons to be learned from the Civil War Reconstruction and the national conversation about reparations for slavery.

Panel: Scott Harris, Richard Hill, Ruthanne Baumgartner

Amy is upset about her daughter's relationship and another caller is wondering how to let go of damaging childhood issues

WPKN General Manager Steve di Costanzo speaks with Suzanne Kachmar and Delores Degage.

WPKN General Manager Steve DiCostanzo speaks with Jim Faith, producer of the Great South Bay Music Festival in Patchogue, NY

WPKN General Manager Steve DiCostanzo speaks with Jim Olsen, producer of The Green River Festival in Greenfield, MA

WPKN General Manager Steve DiCostanzo speaks with Ron Stein, President of the Board of Directors of the John & Alice Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, NY

My guest today on “Digging in the Dirt “ is Alexis Baden-Mayer and we'll be talking everything Glyphosate. Alexis is a  lawyer and activist who has worked in Washington, DC, as the political director of the Organic Consumers Association since 2005. She has contributed to some of the organizations most successful projects, including the Millions Against Monsanto campaign.

The OCA is an online and grassroots nonprofit public interest organization, and the only organization in the U.S. focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests of the nation's estimated 50 million consumers of organically and socially responsibly produced food and other products.

Refugee Humanitarian Crisis at US-Mexico Border Linked to Climate Change; Josh Fox, director, best known for his Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary, "Gasland;” Producer: Scott Harris

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Corporate Lobbyists Ramp-up Effort to Stop Medicare For All Eagan Kemp; Health Care Policy Advocate with Public Citizen; Producer: Scott Harris

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Broad Coalition Defeats Plan to Build Federal Prison on Former Mountaintop Removal Coal Site; Panagioti Tsolkas, Co-founder of the Prison Ecology Project; Producer: Melinda Tuhus

Host: Bonnie Lykes and engineer Sean Bigler

"What’s Happening New Haven speaks with dance visionary David Dorfman due to present his radically human choreography at Connecticut College. Also,

details from Poet Brandan Walsh for his amazing

Great American Poetry Crawl stopping in New Haven! Open

mike included! Guildford Arts Executive Director, Maureen

Belden will fill you in on the Guildford Craft Expo—set to go rain or shine.

To wrap up the hour—we have sultry southerner Marcella Simien of

Marcella and her Lovers set to serve musical swamp soul at the

Public Tavern later in the month. Get the terrific logistics right here !"