July 13, 2026: Consumption

In Conway, we get to meet one of our most innovative farmers of an oft ignored crop. Windrow Farm is growing hay across several tens of acres, none of which are specifically belonging to the farm itself. We speak with farmer Jae Silverman about the importance of hay to the area, how he came to this particular business model, and get a chance to see how the knowledge of a century ago is still one of the better practices for feeding livestock in the area. This past week, the issue of lynching has once again re-entered public conversation, and there’s a Smith College professor who’s recently published a new book looking at the ways the black community has protested and made attempts to raise awareness about these tragedies. Assemblies of Sorrow: Performances of Black Endangerment in the Jim Crow Era is Samuel Galen Ng’s examination of those events, and we speak with him about their impact then and now. And when a star gets hungry, what does it eat? Turns out it’s the planets that are nearby, and Mr. Universe, Kainaat Studios' Salman Hameed, introduces us to a nearby system that may be able to show us between its star and brown dwarf, what’ll happen when we become a tasty morsel for our own star.