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Start the Best Fruits and Vegetables

February 26, 2022March 1, 2022 Mike Nowak Chicago Botanic Garden, Lisa Hilgenberg, organic gardening, Peggy Malecki, Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden, seed starting, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, The Orchid Show: Untamed

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Lisa Hilgenberg is horticulturist for the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden. There, she is responsible for some 50,000 plants, including 400 types of edibles. Today she has advice on when and how to get your seedlings started for the Midwest growing season. We also talk about The Orchid Show: Untamed at the Garden.

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TOMATOMANIA with KC and NC

June 1, 2019June 2, 2019 Mike Nowak American Public Works Association, Craig LeHoullier, environment, Fred Braun, gardening, heirloom plants, KC Tomato, organic gardening, Peggy Malecki, snow and ice removal, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, Village of Niles

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Tomato experts Craig LeHoullier, author of Epic Tomatoes, and tomato breeder KC Tomato (not his real name), join Mike and Peggy to talk about getting the tomato season started. Fred Braun, Director of Public Works for the Village of Niles, talks about how their snow and ice removal system just won an award from the American Public Works Association (APWA).

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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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Make Earth Day Count

April 21, 2018March 26, 2022 Mike Nowak Alderman Michele Smith, Emily Murphy, endangered species, environment, gardening, green living, Illinois Environmental Council, North Branch Industrial Corridor, organic gardening, Pass the Pistil, Scott Waguespack, The Mike Nowak Show

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Emily Murphy talks about her book Grow What You Love, Chicago Aldermen Michele Smith and Scott Waguespack explain why they want to create a 24-acre park in the North Branch Industrial Corridor, and Jennifer Walling from the IEC reports on a bill that would weaken the state’s Endangered Species Protection Board.

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