With any luck, your veggie garden is producing tomatoes, zucchini, beans and cucumbers and your flowering shrubs and plants are weathering the drought.

Nantucket wakes most summer mornings wrapped in fog, yet the island is deep in drought. With a sole-source aquifer and no neighboring town to lean on, water restrictions have divided the island between lawns left to go golden and lawns kept impossibly green by private wells. A meditation on scarcity, privilege, and the strange beauty of a place learning to live with less water.

Jack Gallivan has a lot of questions while at his summer job. Produced by Mae Nagusky and Atlantic Public Media.

The Garden Lady started off with a postcard about mid-summer Lavender care. Callers asked about a multitude of garden problems including fungus gnats in a houseplant, growing cucumbers, wild grapes, hydrangeas and carrots.

The nearly eight-acre property would have three housing units for people in need of shelter, a building for wellness programming, a food pantry, a garden, and more. The nonprofit group behind the project is led by Aquinnah Wampanoag women.

Out of thousands of entries, several R&B artists stood out to the judges in the 2026 Tiny Desk Contest.

Rachel Lynn Solomon has a new book out titled, Extracurricular. She speaks with NPR's Juana Summers about the adult romance novel.

Eagle advocates say that the famous eagle-cam pair Jackie and Shadow are being threatened by a proposed housing development close to their habitat. Eagle researchers say it's not that simple.