In the first hour of this week's C-Realm Radio broadcast, KMO and Silas welcome young, local farmer, Brian Stroffolino of Heartland Farms, to the WOOL.FM studios. Brian cultivates plants and raises animals, but he's largely in the business of building networks of personal relationships. In the second hour, Zora O'Neill, author of All Strangers are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World, calls in from her home in New York City. Zora has traveled extensively in Egypt and Syria, and she describes the dramatic changes she has seen in these two nations since the Arab Spring in 2011.