The Mike Nowak Show Archives

We Are the Champions

October 14, 2018February 2, 2019 Mike Nowak Chicago Excellence in Gardening Awards, environment, gardening, mulching, Natural Awakenings Chicago, Phyto Studio, plant communities, Shedd Aquarium, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, Thomas Rainer, University of Illinois Extension

Landscape architect Thomas Rainer offers some heretical advice on what makes plants happy. Peggy and Mike welcome some winning gardeners from the Chicago Excellence in Gardening Awards ceremony.

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Folk musician Mark Dvorak and Stephanie Schrodt stop by the studio to promote next week’s Folktober Fest in Oak Park. Holly and Joey Baird, The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener, have early fall tips. In the advance of the ILCA’s IMPACT Conference, Marcus de la fleur talks about the benefit of putting native plants in your home’s landscape, and the difficulty of finding companies that will maintain them.

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The Power of Dirt; Hydrangea Help

September 8, 2018September 15, 2018 Mike Nowak Angelic Organics Learning Center, Dirt is Good, Dr. Jack Gilbert, environment, gardening, germs, hydrangeas, Melinda Myers, microbiome, natural lawn care, shrub pruning, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show

Gardening expert Melinda Myers has late season advice for hydrangea care; Dr. Jack Gilbert, author of Dirt Is Good talks about why protecting your kids from germs might not be the best thing for them.

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Why Recycle? Hosta Finale

September 1, 2018September 7, 2018 Mike Nowak Adam Minter, conifers, environment, gardening, Hosta Happening, Mano a Mano International Partners, Marta Keane, recycling, Rich and Susan Eyre, Rich's Foxwillow Pines, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, Will County Green

Marta Touloumes Keane, Recycling Program Specialist for Will County, explains what can and can’t be recycled, and why. Rich and Susan Eyre from Rich’s Foxwillow Pines prepare for their Hosta Happening Finale next week.

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Seaweed Chronicles and Trout Tales

August 25, 2018September 1, 2018 Mike Nowak biodiversity, Chicago Public Schools, environment, gardening, over-fishing, Seaweed Chronicles, species depletion, Susan Hand Shetterly, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, Trout in the Classroom, Trout Unlimited

Susan Hand Shetterly, author of the just-released book, Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge, reports on how seaweed harvesting could be the next biological frontier and also an environmental battlefield. Trout Unlimited coordinator Marvin Strauch, and Chicago teacher Joe Lentino explain the Trout in the Classroom program.

The Mike Nowak Show

We Are the Champions

Mark and Marcus: Music and Sustainability

Midewin: Where the Buffalo Roam

Helianthus!

Chicken Enthusiasts and Monarch Supporters

The Power of Dirt; Hydrangea Help

Why Recycle? Hosta Finale

Seaweed Chronicles and Trout Tales

Roundup Loses in Court; Talking Trees with Skeet

An Infestation of Horticulturists