CABOT CREAMERY
Vermont dairy farmers, cheddar cheese, buying local means Cabot Creamery Cooperative. New England's own makes some of the best cheese in the world. The Frugal Yankee talks with Roberta MacDonald for an inside scoop.

ORGANIC FOOD
In supermarkets, farmer's stands, even Wal-Mart, organic food is selling, but is it what we think? Has big business redefined organic? Are we getting what we paid for? The Frugal Yankees talk to Sam Fromartz, author of Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew.

THE MODERN TREASURE HUNT
Pinching pennies but splurging on luxuries, savvy, frugal, prosperous, educated women consumers have reshaped the American retail environment. Michael Silverstein's Treasure Hunt: Inside the Mind of the New Consumer is a revelation.

SEW WHO KNEW
Sewing machines, latest patterns, sewers sharing, classes, tips and techniques all at PatternReview.com. So, who knew sewing was becoming a big thing? Listen as the Frugal Yankees converse with Deepika Prakash, the driving force behind one of the most successful sewing communities on the web.

GETTING UNSCREWED
Consumers, rip-offs, strategies, value, moneysworth, shoddy merchandise: Unscrewed: The Consumer's Guide to Getting What You Paid for by Ron Burley is an essential tool for the modern consumer. Listen in as the Frugal Yankees fight 'churn' and get their money's worth.

RIPPED-OFF
Rip-offs, market pressures, lower taxes, big government regulation, big business, stealing money - how do all these mix? Tim Carney calls it The Big Ripoff.

THE BOX CHANGED IT ALL
Container shipping changed global trading. The world got smaller and the economy got bigger. How this happened and why, makes The Box something to open.

HARPOON BEER
Brewing beer is personal. Harpoon Brewery founder Rich Doyle shows how a small New England crafts brewery makes a potent potable, and has fun at the same time.

MICROBREWERIES
20 years ago the term microbrewery was hardly known. Today, microbreweries are thriving. Award-winning brewer, Aaron Mateychuk of Watch City Brewing discusses techniques, trends, growlers and why the beer tastes, well, so tasty.

BEING CRAFTY
Handy with your hands? Leah Kramer has taken her passion and created a unique book and a crafts community. Find out why the new craft movement isn't your grandmother's doily. And take a look at Leah's book, The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts: Fifty Fabulous Projects from the Fifties and Sixties. This book is fun!

LEAN MEAN RECYCLING MACHINE
Well, not really mean, but a new company is taking #5 plastic and reusing it. It's a cutting edge eco-business right here in New England, turning yogurt cups into consumer products. The Frugal Yankees have a chat with CEO Eric Hudson.

MAPLE SYRUP DANGER
Is there anything that says New England more than maple syrup? The Frugal Yankees tap into a conversation with Keith Dufresne, maple sugar farmer. The conversation will go from how it's done to why it's endangered.

CRANBERRY BOGS
At Thanksgiving we all recognize that little red berry adorning our tables. We're talking cranberries. A native American food which has changed as our tastes have changed. The Frugal Yankees take a trip to the cranberry bogs with farmer Eric Angle.

BIG DRUGS COMPANIES, BAD MEDICINE
Are big bucks creating bad medicine? Drug companies spend over $70 billion to influence doctors. Are you at risk? Dr.Jerome Kassirer says yes. He's former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and author of On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health