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

Mike takes a few minutes to reflect on the canceling of Our Town with Mike Sanders on Chicago's Progressive Talk. Tom Lupfer of Lupfer Landscaping explains how to make sustainability work in your own garden. Beth Botts reports that the waters have receded from the Morton Arboretum and that institution is open for business. Alan Shannon from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Linda Mallers from FarmLogix, Chef Steven Obendorf of the Latin School of Chicago and Dr. Bill Stone, owner of Brightonwoods Orchard in Burlington, Wisconsin, talk about how they have come together to support Farm to School food programs. Naturalist/author Joel Greenberg and film writer/producer David Mrazek promote their upcoming film, From Billions to None: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction, which will be released in 2014 in commemoration of the one hundreth anniversary of the death of the last passenger pigeon on our planet.