The year 2020 has taken plenty of well-deserved criticism, but its pumpkin harvest is actually looking pretty good. That’s according to Chris Eckert, president of Eckert’s, which operates pick-your-own operations in Belleville, Grafton and Millstadt, Illinois. The company's pumpkin picking season got going last weekend, with apple picking also well underway. And if you ask Chris Eckert, there’s “no better way to grocery shop” right now than going outside and choosing produce straight from the source.

The City of St. Louis has restricted playground access for months, even while bars and restaurants have reopened. The city's Department of Health director, Dr. Fredrick Echols, discussed what has driven the city’s playground policy.

Sept. 25 will be Sgt. Heather Taylor’s first weekday after her retirement. But rather than kick back, she’ll join St. Louis on the Air to discuss her final battle as a police sergeant, her 20 years with the St. Louis police and what she plans to do next.

Alex Garcia has spent the last 1,101 days living in a Maplewood church. In 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied Garcia’s request for a stay of removal from the United States, and the Honduran native still lacks a viable path to U.S. citizenship. Until he has one, he and his community of supporters have made clear, Christ Church is home.

“Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest" explores what it's like to be Black in cities and towns far from the coasts. Editor Terrion Williamson of the University of Minnesota discussed it on "St. Louis on the Air," along with St. Louis-based contributor Lyndsey Ellis.

Lynne Jackson sometimes struggles to find her great-great-grandfather’s grave. Located in north St. Louis’ sprawling and historic Calvary Cemetery, the headstone is just two and a half feet high. A cemetery map helps, and on it, his grave is indicated in the key, with the number 19 beside his name: Dred Scott. It’s a modest memorial, and it’s also “the most asked-for grave out there,” said Jackson, who last week launched a fundraiser in hopes of creating a nine-foot-tall educational memorial at the spot.

STL Sloup, the pop-up soup dinner that provides funding for good causes, returns to St. Louis this month after a five-year hiatus. Anne McCullough explains why, and how, on "t. Louis on the Air."

Holden Thorp, who is now the editor-in-chief of Science, said he has found it necessary to speak out in recent months about what he terms “an extreme attack on science that’s acute and forceful and very much in the news.” He doesn't mince words in his latest editorial for the magazine.

Host Sarah Fenske explores the latest Great Rivers Biennial exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis with Misa Jeffereis, the assistant curator at CAM who organized the show, and Rachel Youn, whose "Gather” gallery on display blends the lines between dance and worship.

Mitchell Rozanski was installed as the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis in September. He discussed his new job, and St. Louis the King, with "St. Louis on the Air" on Thursday.

Emerging ag-tech company Benson Hill opened a new headquarters in St. Louis on Monday. The business is attracting a lot of attention and forging a unique space in the ag-tech ecosystem. We talked on "St. Louis on the Air" with Benson Hill's CEO and president, Matt Crisp.

Some companies are welcoming workers back to the office. On "St. Louis on the Air," we talked with an architect about how companies are designing or retrofitting their spaces with COVID-19 in mind.