Gardener, artist, and writer Marc Hamer has a new book called Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens. In many ways, it's a guide book for a life well-lived, given up to love and forgiveness. Our conversation veers from spiritual to practical and back again, focusing on shade plants, the outdoors, books, and childhood.

Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around the Catskill Mountains of New York live from WGXC's Acra studio.