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In this episode of the local gardening series, contributors Julia Frid, Marilyn Mastine and Sharon St-Onge join host Julie Miller to chat about their favourite garden tools - the ones they just can't live without.  Besides rakes and hoes, there are some interesting implements tucked away in their gardening sheds!  Who knew that a subject like "Gardening Tools" could inspire such a great conversation?  Musical interludes this week are from Canadian composer and banjo player, Jayme Stone, drawn from his album "Room of Wonders"...and our feature song is none other than, you guessed it, "The Garden Song."  Happy listening! 

This is a mouth-watering episode, as regular contributors and green thumbs Sharon St-Onge, Marilyn Mastine, and Julia Frid are back to talk with host Julie Miller about their favourite vegetables to grow.  Pumpkins, eggplant, peas, tomatoes, spinach and more, including favourite varieties, a hull-less pumpkin grown in Nicolet,  and lots of anecdotes.  They'll give their opinions on the best, most reliable and most intriguing seed companies from which to order seed in Canada.  This episode's featured song is "Happiness Is," from Québec singer-songwriter Jason Lang's wonderful new album, Handled with Care, which truly is, simply, happiness.

For this second installment of our series about gardening,  host Julie Miller and contributors and green thumbs  Julia Frid, Marilyn Mastine, and Sharon St-Onge  share personal stories and thoughts about why they garden and what gardening means to them. You never know what is going to come up when gardeners sit down together for a chat! 

We're launching a new series which brings together passionate gardeners with green thumbs who have had their share of cracked pots over the years to share stories and discuss issues related to gardening, with a focus on experience in our own region, the Mauricie and the Centre du Québec.  In this introductory episode, you'll meet the series' regular contributors: Julia Frid, Marilyn Mastine, and Sharon St-Onge - and you'll find out that the MCQ V&V regular host Julie Miller also loves to garden! 

English/Welsh poet Zoë Skoulding will be appearing several times at the 38th edition of the Festival International de la poésie de Trois-Rivières.  In this chat with host Julie Miller, Zoë talks about her fascination with translation, her interest in both soundscapes and landscapes, how a visit to Montreal galvanized her to begin speaking French, and how a hidden river is at the heart of her recent award-winning collection of poetry, Footnotes to Water.  To hear some of Zoë's performances, you can look her up on SoundCloud:   https://soundcloud.com/zoeskoulding

This fall (2022) Anya Bussière-Filion entered her 3rd year of medicine at the University of Sherbrooke.   In a chat with host Julie Miller, Anya talks about the program and what brought her to study medicine in the first place.  Originally from Drummondville, Anya has grown up with both English and French, attending elementary and high school and also Cegep in English, before making the switch to full time studies in French at U de S.  She takes a look at how being "in-between" the two languages and cultures  has given her a particular perspective on life and Québec society. Anya is also a regional winner of the Dialogue McGill bursary, awarded to promising students in health and social services who have a proven track record of community involvement.