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(air date 10-17-22) You'll hear from Kevin Carr, the author of the new book, Musician’s Guide to Marketing: Why Your Band Needs a Brand. Get an update on the growth of the Boys and Girls Clubs of mid-Central Coast. President Roosevelt's grandson Ford Roosevelt meets with KCBX's Tom Wilmer aboard FDR's presidential yacht, USS Potomac in the Oakland, California harbor.

KCBX's Grape Nut, Betsey Nash, explores the bubbly business of sparkling wine. DignityMoves is a non-profit organization working with the County of Santa Barbara to develop interim supportive housing villages. One Cool Earth provides educational gardening for local schools.

Foraging for mushrooms is a fun way to get exercise while hunting for food. However, with California's lack of rain, there are more mushroom graveyards than there are mushroom fields. Some have taken an entrepreneurial approach and are growing them in their homes. Note: if you forage in the wild, be sure it's legal to do so where you are looking.

The siege on Ukraine is an atrocity playing out before our very eyes. How are local Ukrainians coping? Canadian-Ukrainian Annie Capelli makes Ukrainian Borscht for Fr. Ian as she describes the scene in Ukraine that her family and friends are endeavoring to endure.

During the George Floyd Black Lives Matters Protests, food blogger and podcaster Jaime Lewis decided to remove from her deed the restriction that read: No person of any race other than a Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot. She worked with Race Matters SLO to document the process in a film titled "Restrictions Apply". Jaime and Race Matters SLO Executive Director Courtney Haile share their journey of racial justice since the completion of the film over a dinner of salad, paella and apple empanadas.

Hard candy…it’s just sugar, water and flavors, right? Yes, it is…but…it takes some technique to turn it into what you want. But what if you want words inside your candy? It’s pretty simple, apparently. Craig Montgomery of Sticky Candy how simple playing with candy is.

This episode feature a celebrity on Playing With Food! PBS broadcast a new cooking show called Great American Recipe. 10 home cooks shared themselves, their recipes and their families with all of America for the judges. One of those contestants just happened to be from the Central Coast: Silvia Martinez from Morro Bay.

In the shadow of the iconic volcanic plug rising from the middle of Morro Bay, Lisamu or Morro Rock, are some farms hidden in plain sight. The Playing With Food Team visited the Grassy Bar Oyster Company’s farm, watched an oyster planting and tasted some of the produce.

Folk artist and musician Shari Elf shares her views on life in the desert with correspondent Laurie McAndish King

Sean O'Brien, owner of Pacific Coast Lumber visits with Tom Wilmer to share insights about the environmental advantages of utilizing windfall and fire damaged trees to mill beautiful wood for reuse.