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We find out what's wrong with local lilacs and even more wrong with local trees with Plant Pathologist Nick Brazee, head to Table & Vine to drink a much maligned grape with Michael Quinlan, and bring Franklin County's High Tea in for live music Friday.

We check out the local literary magazine Meat for Tea as they gear up for their quarterly Cirque, Hang out with Jonah Keane from Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary and Wallace Field who'll be playing the Arcadia Fold festival on those grounds next week, and drink the wine we abandoned for PInot Grigio with the Wine Snobs at State Street.

Academy award winning Ruth E. Carter comes by the studios before her appearance at the Art For The Soul Cafe, The folx behind the Cancer Connection's Bed-In fndraiser come by the talk about the event, and we do our weekly mcgoverning with Rep. Jim McGovern and a bunch of your questions!

We eat tasty treats at East Longmeadow's The Apple Place, delve into the evolution of the singular "you" with The Word Nerd Emily Brewster, and laugh for good causes with the folx of Comedy Cause 5.

We chat with Tim Garvin and Megan Burke, stewards of The Farm Resilliency Fund which raises money through Farm Stand today, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll weighs in on the creation of the fund, and we have a rundown of the mayoral candidates on the preliminary ballot in Springfield with Adam Frenier.

We view the juried sculpture show, now all ability accessible, at Park Hill Orchard with proprietor Russell Braen and accessibility advocate and wheelchair user Christos Palames, and take a Umass AI professor to Mike's Maze where this year's theme is artificial intelligence and the very nature of humanity.

Despite a city-wide emergency, we speak with 11th Hampden State Rep Bud WIlliams, Mr. Universe laments our lack of appreciation for comets, and we fish for animal verbs with The Word Nerd

CISA preps us for Climate Change and Farming week, Rep. Jim McGovern also laments climate change as we review the terrible weather incidents in his district this week, and UK Rockers Modern English join us in studio before they head to Greenfield and rock us all at Hawks & Reed this Saturday.

We discover the WIT festival happening next week in Lenox, bring the Wine Thunderdome to Franklin County (finally), and get a quick look at the Millpond series, which opens tonight in Easthampton

Local author/illustrator Grace Lin joins us to talk about her latest book, Mr. Universe eschews the mexican alien conversation to look at K2-18b instead, and Kaliis has to broadcast from home, which is a bit ironic, considering.