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

Author and herbalist Lisa M. Rose talks about her new book, Midwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 109 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness, and how you can use it to create your own backyard medicines. Doug Taron, Chief Curator of the Chicago Academy of Sciences at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, reports on late summer monarch butterfly spottings in the Midwest.