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Picking asparagus is stoop labor; the spear is cut right at the soil surface with a sharp knife. A deceased older friend said he preferred picking cotton to harvesting asparagus.

When I was first offered huge, fat asparagus, I demurred but after tasting them quickly converted to a super colossal fan. Since they are picked every day, large asparagus are just as tender but come from a larger root shoot.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Sylvia Szentpetery about new therapies for children with cystic fibrosis. Dr. Szentpetery is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a pediatric pulmonologist at MUSC Children’s Health.

This week on Walter Edgar’s Journal we offer a conversation recorded before an audience, live as well as virtual, at the Charleston Literary Festival in November of 2021. Walter Edgar talks with Stuart Bennett about his novel, The Charleston Gambit (2021, Evening Post Books) - a rousing tale of Revolutionary War South Carolina. Along with the battles, it gives glimpses of Charleston fashion and society, faces head-on issues of slavery and plantation life, and tells an engaging love story.Dr. Edgar and the author talk about Bennett's love of history, the novel's main characters, and the attitudes and personalities on both sides of the conflict that helped turn the American Revolution into a brutal civil war.

Adult mole salamanders spend most of their lives underground in burrows, either of their own making or abandoned by other animals.

Groundhog Day is a popular North American tradition observed in the United States and Canada on February 2. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day sees its shadow due to clear weather, it will retreat to its den and winter will persist for six more weeks; if it does not see its shadow because of cloudiness, spring will arrive early.

Operetta is light opera...or opera light. Its goal is to amuse: to be witty, charming, funny, not serious either in style or substance.

According to our next guest, almost half of her small business assistance organization’s clients are African American, yet these clients continue to struggle to obtain financing. Which is why she recently announced an initiative designed to uplift the economic prospects for these minority business owners and entrepreneurs. Mike Switzer interviews Michele Abraham, state director for the South Carolina Small Business Development Center in Columbia.

One of the nation’s largest wildlife art exhibitions is celebrating its 40th anniversary soon with a three-day event in downtown Charleston. Mike Switzer interviews John Powell, executive director of Southeastern Wildlife Exposition occurring Feb. 17th through 20th.

The financial markets have been showing signs of fatigue and worry lately. Are the old demons of rising inflation and interest rates finally starting to take their toll? Mike Switzer interviews Frank Hefner, Director Office of Economic Analysis and Professor of Economics at the College of Charleston.