Husband and wife Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg explore the rural byways within four miles of their home in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York State, and find local business owners working to promote healthy lifestyles that have a national impact. Listeners from ALL Parts of the country will benefit from this program. The show is not about the Catskills, per se. It is about healthy living that applies to every human being no matter where they live. Listeners will learn a lot from the food, diet and nutrition information, which makes up the bulk of the show. *** This is a stand-alone half-hour. There is a second half-hour that can be combined with it to make an hour-long program. It can be found at: http://www.prx.org/pieces/28296 This half-hour features: 1. SHELDON LUBLIN. Lublin has traveled the world, hitchhiked across the country, met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and recently retired from his successful psychotherapy practice in New York City. 2. DICK & PAT PETERS, owners of Peter's Market, in Napanoch, NY, on their journey to becoming a healthy alternative market. 3. JOHN HILLER & CAROL DEBBERMAN, makers of vegetarian Sunshine Burgers, in Ellenville, NY, sold at Peter's Market and in markets across the country. In the second half-hour found at http://www.prx.org/pieces/28296: 1. A collage of water sounds recorded in the Catskills. 2. Joe & Lorie meet Oleh and Nadia Maczaj, and their children. They are the owners of Rusty Plough Farm, a small family farm, growing certified organic vegetables, flowers and berries, as well as eggs from our free-range hens. Our farm is located in Ulster County, NY, nestled between the Shawangunk Mountains and the Catskills. It consists of 36 acres, including: crop fields; wild blueberry stands; woodlots; a pond; a maze of old stone walls; an old rusty plough; wild turkeys, deer, hawks, squirrels; the occasional bear; multitudes of frogs and newts; Sneakers & Sandy the barncats; and the house, barn, and greenhouse. Review of 'A "Healthy Living" LABOR DAY SPECIAL' Reviewed by David Swatling Adjectives: Engaging, Informational, Sound Rich The gentle rural pace of this special filled me with nostalgia. I grew up just north of the Hudson Valley where husband/wife team Joe & Lorie talk to their friendly neighbors - some natives and some transplanted New Yorkers. But all have found their way to the joys of healthy eating/living. There's lots of fun sound - especially when a persistent rooster does some serious scene-stealing - and the tone is always casual. (in half-hour part 2) All in all, laid-back Labor Day fare that should entertain both relaxed rurals and edgy urbanites.

Husband and wife Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg explore the rural byways within four miles of their home in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York State, and find local business owners working to promote healthy lifestyles that have a national impact. Listeners from ALL Parts of the country will benefit from this program. The show is not about the Catskills, per se. It is about healthy living that applies to every human being no matter where they live. Listeners will learn a lot from the food, diet and nutrition information, which makes up the bulk of the show. *** This is a stand-alone half-hour. There is a second half-hour that can be combined with it to make an hour-long program. It can be found at: http://www.prx.org/pieces/28296 This half-hour features: 1. SHELDON LUBLIN. Lublin has traveled the world, hitchhiked across the country, met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and recently retired from his successful psychotherapy practice in New York City. 2. DICK & PAT PETERS, owners of Peter's Market, in Napanoch, NY, on their journey to becoming a healthy alternative market. 3. JOHN HILLER & CAROL DEBBERMAN, makers of vegetarian Sunshine Burgers, in Ellenville, NY, sold at Peter's Market and in markets across the country. In the second half-hour found at http://www.prx.org/pieces/28296: 1. A collage of water sounds recorded in the Catskills. 2. Joe & Lorie meet Oleh and Nadia Maczaj, and their children. They are the owners of Rusty Plough Farm, a small family farm, growing certified organic vegetables, flowers and berries, as well as eggs from our free-range hens. Our farm is located in Ulster County, NY, nestled between the Shawangunk Mountains and the Catskills. It consists of 36 acres, including: crop fields; wild blueberry stands; woodlots; a pond; a maze of old stone walls; an old rusty plough; wild turkeys, deer, hawks, squirrels; the occasional bear; multitudes of frogs and newts; Sneakers & Sandy the barncats; and the house, barn, and greenhouse. Review of 'A "Healthy Living" LABOR DAY SPECIAL' Reviewed by David Swatling Adjectives: Engaging, Informational, Sound Rich The gentle rural pace of this special filled me with nostalgia. I grew up just north of the Hudson Valley where husband/wife team Joe & Lorie talk to their friendly neighbors - some natives and some transplanted New Yorkers. But all have found their way to the joys of healthy eating/living. There's lots of fun sound - especially when a persistent rooster does some serious scene-stealing - and the tone is always casual. (in half-hour part 2) All in all, laid-back Labor Day fare that should entertain both relaxed rurals and edgy urbanites.