gardening, the environment, green living and a lot of humor

Michelle Byrne Walsh from Chicagoland Gardening Magazine and State by State Gardening helps Mike and Peggy come up with green holiday gifts that are good, bad and just plain weird. Scott Stewart, director of the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park, waxes poetic on the fall/winter garden and explains how just five acres of land has transformed Chicago's lakefront. Sarah Surroz is the new executive director of Conserve Lake County and she explains her vision for utilizing both public and private lands in the service of nature.