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Mary Foster Morgan, co-founder of Drawdown East End, and co-columnist for East End Beacon’s Climate Local Now, talks about the amount of food wasted by America’s families when they could be turning their leftovers into compost. Listen as Mary takes us deeper into this story. (WPKN April 5, 2023)
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Mark MacNish, historian, fifth-generation North Fork resident and Executive Director of the Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council, talks about his family’s direct connection to the Orphan Train Movement and the Children’s Aid Society that moved children from America’s cities to rural areas for adoption and foster care between 1854 and 1929. (WPKN, February 5, 2025)
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Bob Jester, resident of Greenport, returns as North Fork Works guest for a third time, 11 years after he told us about being a chimney sweep, scientist and teacher and seven years since he talked about his terrible accident.This time he tells us what he has learned about pain management, including the use of narcotic […]
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Beth Young, journalist-founder of the East End Beacon website and newspaper and 13th-generation member of one of the North Fork’s founding families, talks to Hazel Kahan on North Fork Works examines the issues facing those who live and work on the east end of Long Island (Broadcast on WPKN December 4, 2024, 2021)
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Steve Wick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, formerly of Newsday and more recently editor of the Suffolk Times, talks about his earlier work, two new upcoming books, the importance of local journalism and emphasizes that, “if you want to get the present right, you have to get the past right” which means, he says, uncovering the […]
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Riverhead farmer Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht talks about the twenty years of growing her Garden of Eve Farm and advocating for organic farmers, most recently as Northeast Region Farmer Representative of OFA, the Organic Farmers Association. (First broadcast on WPKN, March 3, 2024)
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Nancy DePas Reinertsen and Ralph Reinertsen, retired educators who have recently launched the North Fork branch of ReWild Long Island with Sustainable Gardening at Custer Preserve in Southold, describe how, through collaboration and networking among several existing networks, volunteers can establish and expand flourishing sustainable landscapes and community gardens of mostly native plants in a […]
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Margery Daughtrey, PhD, plant pathologist in the department of Ornamental Pathology at Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center of Cornell University, talks about beech leaf disease (BLD), first identified in Ohio in 2012 but now affecting the viability of beech trees in several other states, including the east end of Long Island. Dr. Daughtrey describes […]
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Craig Jobes, Environmental Analyst at Southold Town, talks about his role in managing the overpopulation of white-tailed deer, as well as hunting and hunters, new State legislation and, now, the arrival of coyotes on the scene. (WPKN, February 7, 2024)
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Farmer-artists Agathe Snow and Anthony Holbrooke talk about learning to grow mushrooms on their farm Mattituck Mushrooms, why they believe mushrooms can help feed the world and how they have integrated mushrooms into their art. (WPKN, January 3, 2024)
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
