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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Artist Shilin Hora describes her “Seed Museum works.” 2018 Beginning Farmer of the Year Yoram Shanan of Sandbox Organics talks about the new wave of farmers. Jodie Wiederkehr of Chicago Alliance for Animals (CAA) explains why she wants to put horse-drawn carriages out of business in Chicago.
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Mike and Peggy preview the 2018 Macy’s Flower Show, discuss how Go Green Oak Park is waging a battle against unnecessary pesticide use, talk to Michele Hoffman at the Science Desk about her upcoming voyage to Alaska to shoot more footage for the film Microcosm and how you can participate, and examine a victory for Crate Free Illinois in the fight against animal cruelty.
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Mike and Peggy broadcast live from the 2018 Chicago Flower & Garden Show. They talk to show president Tony Abruscato, The Rose Kings Chris VanCleave and Brian Puckett, Sandy Syburg from Purple Cow Organics, William Moss the Garden Boss, and Janie Grillo aka Butterfly Jane.
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Horticulturist Melinda Myers previews her appearance at the Chicago Flower & Garden Show. Openlands president and CEO Jerry Adelmann explains how one our most important environmental laws is at risk and how you can protect it. David R. Montgomery has a plan to regenerate our soils and he will be speaking at the Good Food EXPO.
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Mike and Peggy are on the road at the Greater Chicago Home + Remodeling Show in Schaumburg with show packed with guests–Jim Slama from the Good Food EXPO; Cam Davis, who is running as a write-in candidate for the MWRD; Kenneth Gallt of Foliage Design Systems of Chicago; genius recycler Tom Szaky from TerraCycle; and 16th Congressional District candidate Beth Vercolio-Osmund.
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Jim Nienhuis talks about the evolution of vegetables, his work helping women entrepreneurs in Central America, and his talk for the 2018 Great Lakes Bioneers McHenry County Speaker Series. Lisa Eldred Steinkopf has written House Plants: The Complete Guide. Mike and Peggy interview a couple of directors featured in the One Earth Film Festival, opening this week.
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The inimitable Christy Webber returns to talk horticulture, business and the Chicago Flower & Garden Show. Adam Federman from The Nation Magazine returns to report on the latest threats to what we thought were protected U.S. natural lands.
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Dr. John Ikerd, former chicken raiser Craig Watts, and activist/farmer Karen Hudson preview the annual meeting of Illinois Citizens for Clean Air and Water and the many issues surrounding industrial agriculture. Dr. Michael Schuck and Dr. Nancy Tuchman from Loyola University Chicago explain their open source online textbook called Healing Earth.
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Kylee Baumlee, author of The Monarch: Saving Our Most-Loved Butterfly, visits the WCGO studios, along with Carol Niec and Kerrie Rosenthal from The Seed Keeper Company. On a snowy day, Pat Skach fills in for meteorologist Rick DiMaio.
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