Millions  of people globally have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything from schools to states and countries have shut down to limit the spread of the virus. National parks have been temporarily shuttered in many places to protect visitors, staff, and surrounding communities. With all this going on, it’s hard to remember what day it is much less remember what is happening in the night sky! Why should we care about astronomy during a worldwide emergency? Shouldn’t we be focusing our energy elsewhere?

The coronavirus "safer at home" protocol is still in effect, so our gardeners are joining us once again via telephone.  Host Jill Spears & gardening gurus Lulu Vockhausen & Lance Swigart are deep into spring garden preparation and planting.

  Musicians around the world are getting creative about connecting with their audience during a time of social distance. Gathering for live, in-person performance is still unsafe. One local band in Moab, Utah is solving this dilemma – by bringing the performance to the people. KZMU's Molly Marcello has more.

Musician, producer and music teacher Joel Michael calls in to KVNF via Zoom from his home in Chiang Mi Thailand. Joel talks with Kori Stanton about his new conceptutal EP 'Returning to Leave' which comes out May 29, 2020 and shares several unreleased tracks.