This Halloween episode of The Garden Lady starts off with a postcard from things that are spooky in the garden. C.L. talks about ghost pipe plants, stinkhorn fungi, and other creepy things that appear in our yards and gardens. Listeners call in with assorted questions about topics including transplanting hydrangeas, "lasagne bulb pots," African violet renewal, and watering spring blooming shrubs this fall.

A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists.

Steven Raichlen’s latest book is a memoir that follows his path, starting as a scholar of French literature and ending as a world-class BBQ expert.

Liz and Keith Martin started with just a few chickens in 2012. Now they've added ducks, alpacas, goats, a vegetable garden, and sugar maple trees.

After more than a year of unexplained delays, the National Park Service is allowing the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission to meet next week. On the agenda: defining the very essence of Cape Cod.

Democrats are putting up a fight in midterm races this year that went for President Donald Trump by double digits in 2024. Kentucky Public Radio's Sylvia Goodman explains what we can learn from one Kentucky district.

There was a mixed Halloween bag of economic news this week. GDP growth is up, but so are prices. For now at least, interest rates are staying the same. What does that mean for the midterm elections?

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, with a focus on economic and security challenges.