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Expect Great Growing in 2022

March 5, 2022March 7, 2022 Mike Nowak Chris Beytes, climate change, environment, Gardenary, Great Grow Along, green living, GrowerTalks, Kitchen Garden Revival, LaManda Joy, Nicole Burke, Peggy Malecki, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show

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With the start of the 2022 gardening season upon us, we look at the business end and the personal side of great growing. Chris Beytes from Ball Hort’s publication GrowerTalks reports on the state of the industry. LaManda Joy previews the Great Grow Along with presenter Nicole Burke of Gardenary and Rooted Garden.

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Green Tomatoes and Plant Trucks

September 1, 2019September 5, 2019 Mike Nowak Aldi, City Grange, Crate Free Illinois, environment, gardening, gestation crates, Get Growing Foundation, LaManda Joy, Peggy Malecki, Plant Truck, The Humane League, The Mike Nowak Show, Tony Abruscato

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LaManda Joy and Joan Murray from City Grange talk about fall vegetables and containers. Tony Abruscato of the Get Growing Foundation is bringing Plant Truck to underserved neighborhoods. Jessica Chipkin of Crate Free Illinois and Josh Richards of The Humane League are working to make meat purveyors more responsible for the products they serve.

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Live From City Grange!

April 20, 2019May 17, 2019 Mike Nowak City Grange, environment, gardening, Get Growing Foundation, LaManda Joy, organic gardening, Peggy Malecki, Peterson Garden Project, seed quilt, Shilin Hora, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, United We Blossom

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The Mike Nowak Show spends this holiday Sunday broadcasting from the brand spanking new City Grange on Chicago’s northwest side. Founder LaManda Joy joins us, along with staff members, who talk about the mission of this not-so-usual retail establishment. America’s Seed Artist Shilin Hora also stops by to talk about a seed quilt that she has created with students from Emerson Elementary School in Berwyn.

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April 8, 2018 – Anticipation…

April 7, 2018April 14, 2018 Mike Nowak Chicago Botanic Garden, Conserve Lake County, environment, fruits and vegetables, gardening, green living, LaManda Joy, Lisa Hilgenberg, Openlands, organic plant sale, Peterson Garden Project, The Mike Nowak Show

LaManda Joy from Peterson Garden Project promotes their annual Organic Edible Plant Sale. Sarah Surroz of Conserve Lake County talks about their new partnership with Openlands. The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lisa Hilgenberg answers spring veggie gardening questions.

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July 1, 2017 – A Tale of Two Counties

June 30, 2017July 7, 2017 Mike Nowak CAFOs, Community gardens, environment, factory farms, gardening, gnomes, Illinois Citizens for Clean Air and Water, Karen Hudson, LaManda Joy, Peterson Garden Project, The Mike Nowak Show, water pollution

LaManda Joy from the Peterson Garden Project previews GnomeDependence Day. Then Mike and Peggy follow up on factory farm issues in Illinois with Karen Hudson from Illinois Citizens for Clean Air & Water and farmers Craig Porter and Carrie Johnson.

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Aphids, energy and forest preserves

June 28, 2013 Mike Nowak Arnold Randall, Dutch elm disease, Forest Preserve District of Cook County, LaManda Joy, Midwest Renewable Energy Association, organic gardening, plastic bag bans, The Care of Trees, The Peterson Garden Project

June 23, 2013 Got aphids? LaManda Joy has your organic fix Sometimes I feel as though I’m just one small

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July 7, 2012 Mike Nowak coal gasification, Environment Illinois, Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois Environmental Council, Illinois Sierra Club, LaManda Joy, Peterson Garden Project, plastic bag recycling, Southeast Environmental Task Force

July 1, 2012 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly environmental laws coming out of Springfield [Note: The podcast of