We're talking fun in the sun on this week's Growing Good! Alessandra Maria Iavarone is here to talk all about all of the hot spots along Rockaway Beach for your friends and family.

On this week's episode of Growing Good, Alessandra Maria Iavarone is joined in the studio by Bowie Barnett-Zunino and Jeff Barnett-Winsby of the Wassaic Project. The Wassaic Project is an artist-in-residency program in Wassaic, New York that focuses on community.

On this week's episode of Growing Good, Alessandra Iavarone is talking about Disney's decision to ban junk food advertisements in all of its media branches in order to fight against childhood obesity. But are the commercials the problem, or are parents to blame for the obesity epidemic?

On this week's episode of Growing Good, Alessandra Maria Iavarone is talking about forest schools. Are you looking for an alternative to traditional classroom learning for your child? Tune in to hear some of the benefits of forest school learning.

On this week's Growing Good, Alessandra Iavarone is sharing some of her ideas for inexpensive, do-it-yourself birthday parties! Mamassandra encourages you to get the whole family involved; have your guests make some potlucks, go to the park, and have a birthday that your child will never forget.

This week on Growing Good, Alessandra gives listeners some good information on lead poisoning and sources of lead in the household. Learn why so many commercially sold juices could be dangerous and how to protect yourself and your child from poisoning.

Growing Good gets spiritual and heady as Alessandra Iavarone is joined by friend and healer Augustine aka "White Flight". Together they discuss sound and light as a healing force and how integrated consciousness and music are so closely related.

This Growing Good baby Wally is in studio and mom and son go all-aboard the StoryTimeFunLand Express with musician and dad Michael Ahearn. Want to get involved in composting?

This week Growing Good takes on the important issue of hyrdrofracking in New York State with Jill Wiener head of The Catskills Citizens for Safe Energy, a grassroots organization.

On the debut episode of Growing Good, Alessandra Iavarone introduces the show by examining some of the vitamin supplements that have become commonplace for babies today.