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

Lee Buttala is the new executive director of the Seed Savers Exchange. The day before his first day on the job, he stops by the WCGO studios to talk about the challenges of being the guardians of 25,000 varieties of seeds. Allen Lawrance, Associate Curator of Entomology at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, reports on monarch sightings for 2017. Laura Barghusen, Openlands Associate Greenways Director, comments on the launching of Paddle Illinois Water Trails, the first comprehensive guidebook for the canoe and kayak trails of northeastern Illinois.