Hi Everybody,

I am so happy to have rain!! I didn’t think I could say that after the rainy, cold Spring we had, but everything needed water, and I couldn’t keep up with faucets, hoses and sprinklers! This has been an exciting week at our homestead. Joe, my husband, harvested our first batch of honey, and I harvested my first batch of worm compost tea! The honey is so beautiful and delicious, I can taste the healing energy in it. Now I need to learn what to do with all of the wax by-product in my spare time. Any suggestions? Making compost tea from my worm castings was also a first! I have my worms in a large bin (with holes and screening in the bottom) filled with my kitchen scraps, leaves, and newspapers, sitting above another bin, that catches all of their waste and water. That is the worm compost tea I am talking about.?The tea was so dark and concentrated, that I diluted it with water, before feeding it to all of my plants and gardens. I could hear the plants thanking me! It was an auspicious moment!

My guest this week on the Progressive Radio Network is Nicholas Freudenberg, a distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the CUNY School of Public Health. He is a public advocate, working for over 30 years to promote policies that increase public health and reduce racial and socio-economic health inequalities. His latest book, “Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health“, focuses on the influence corporations have on public health, through their marketing and production of unhealthy foods and products, and how governments have stepped back from their responsibility to protect the public, by cutting funding and regulations that were meant to protect us. Please join me on Thursday, and learn about the connection between business-dominated politics, the push from food companies and pharmaceutical companies to increase their bottom line, the increases in health care costs, and what consumers can do about it.

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With love and gratitude,
Bhavani