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Host Mayuko Fukino speaks with Anne Bloomfield, a field biologist at Hudson Valley Farm Hub in Ulster County, about their American Kestrel habitat management project, which developed strategies to empower hop farmers to incorporate bird-friendly practices. She also shares wisdom on optimism in environmental work, and how we each can bring our knowledge and expertise to the table, overcoming differences to get where we need to go. Also, tune in the WGXC Congressional Report today, with news of the past week from the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Congressional Districts. And tune in for an excerpt of the "Nature Calls: Conversations from the Hudson Valley" podcast from the Master Gardeners of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties. Listen this week to a virtual tour of Berkshire Botanical Garden, located in Stockbridge, MA, with Master Gardener Volunteer Linda Levitt. She provides a vivid description of the history of these gardens as well as an overview of what you’ll see if you stop by. Also, tune in for a conversation with scholar, rhythmanalyst, and music artist DeForrest Brown, Jr., about the upcoming world premiere of his performance "Speakers That Speak To You" at The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performance Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. "Speakers That Speak To You" operates as a musical successor to the ideas in his recent publication "Assembling a Black Counter-Culture" (Primary Information, 2021) and also as a jumping off point for the artist's next album, a project that he anticipates to follow the forthcoming Fall 2023 release of Techxodus with his music label Planet Mu. Plus, Jenny Ghetti and Amanda Lees, from the WGXC show "Dim The Lights" preview what is playing at local movie theatres.

The "WGXC Afternoon Show" features local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, a rundown of local and regional events, weather updates, and more about and for the community. The show is a place for a community conversation about issues, with music, and more. Saturday the emphasis is more on radio art, and art on the radio. Unlike shows by individual programmers on the station, the "WGXC Afternoon Show" is considered partially station-run. The Sunday version calls itself "Li Le, Le Tan." Tune in for local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regional events, with weather updates, and more about and for the community, made mostly through volunteers in the community through WGXC. The Catskill Makers Syndicate produce the "Better Weather" for the show. Rob Gelles produces the Columbia County history segment "Rob Around The County" and "This Month in History" for the show. Interview segments from Justin Maiman are often heard on this show, as our movie updates from Jenny Ghetti and Amanda Lees. Interviews by hosts of the "WGXC Afternoon Show" also get played back here occasionally. And Jack Sencabaugh contributes the "Backtracks in Time" segment about local history. Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show. The show begins each day with local headlines, weather, and previews of community events. Also tune in for national headlines from the Public News Service on WGXC. Sometimes national, state, or local press conferences, meetings, or events are also broadcast live here. WGXC is always looking for contributors who have an interesting idea for a recurring segment on either the "WGXC Morning Show" or the "WGXC Afternoon Show." Email your idea to info@wgxc.org.