This week on the Local Food Report, black trumpet mushrooms.

With the tourist hordes come the birds of summer, and they are worth leaving your home for, and maybe even crossing a town line or two.

My fun on the Cape is almost exclusively of the solitary kind. Exploring a new beach, taking my bike on the rail trail and stopping for ice cream at the Pleasant Lake General Store. Or making repairs to my cottage.

This time on Sittin' In, CAI's John Basile talks with singer Ella Mae Dixon about growing up in Wellfleet and making the move to New York where her career has taken off. They also talk about Dixon's new single, which takes a jazz classic in a new direction.

Do you remember how hot it was two weeks ago? Well, right now people are noticing the true toll that this took on some of their plants. This week on The Garden Lady C.L'.s talking about leaf scorch, browned flowers and other symptoms from the sudden 90 degree plus temperatures.

This week on the fishing news CAI’s John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff of On The Water magazine about the brown shark, also known as the sandbar shark

My friend Drew Locke is a seventh-generation farmer in Truro. He’s always trying new things — partly because he’s curious and partly because even though he comes from a long line of farmers, a lot of intergenerational knowledge has been lost in recent decades and he’s focused on relearning the old ways.

Many terns and gulls usually seen on Cape Cod beaches are still nesting in the Arctic. Meantime, those who are on the Cape are nesting in rooftop malls and buildings.

This week on the Fishing News, CAI’s John Basile talks with Kevin Blinkoff, editor in chief of On the Water Magazine about bonito, a species that’s made an early appearance in local waters this year.