Author: Mike Nowak

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October 28, 2017 – Miscellany Morning

Mike and Peggy cover a range of topics, including an oil spill in the Chicago River, a 10 million dollar

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October 22, 2017 – A Great Lake on the Brink

Lisa Hilgenberg from the Chicago Botanic Garden talks about planting spring bulbs. Molly Flanagan from Alliance for the Great Lakes

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October 21, 2017 – Keeping Food Slow

Jody Osmund of Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm and CSA returns to The Mike Nowak Show to talk about the practical

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October 15, 2017 – When Plants Fight City Hall

Nicole Virgil and Ron Cress each explain why they are fighting their town’s laws to grow, respectively, food and native

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October 14, 2017 – Bring Guns, Oaks and Art

Paul Coffey from the Art Institute of Chicago and Jeff Levrant of Homan Grown explain how the Oaks of North

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Podcast

October 15, 2017 – When Plants Fight City Hall

Nicole Virgil wants to grow vegetables in a backyard hoop house and Ron Cress wants to grow native plants on his lot, and they both find themselves fighting City Hall to make it happen. Michele Hoffman welcomes Dr. David Vaughan to the Science Desk to talk about his new growing technique that might give the world’s declining coral reefs a fighting chance.

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