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Fall is for Planting Bulbs…and Votes

2018-10-21

Horticulturist Dan Kosta has advice about spring blooming bulbs. P.J. Miller tells you why Happy Leaf LED grow lights are a great way to jump start your seedlings. Mike and Peggy report on environmental issues for the 2018 elections.

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We Are the Champions

2018-10-14

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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Mark and Marcus: Music and Sustainability

2018-10-07

Folk musician Mark Dvorak and Stephanie Schrodt promote Folktober Fest. The Wisconsin Vegetable gardener has tips for your fall harvest. Marcus de la fleur talks about the difficulty of finding companies that will maintain native plant landscapes.

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Live from Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie!

2018-09-30

NOTE: SOME AUDIO BREAKUP EARLY ON. Mike and Peggy are live at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, just southwest of Chicago near Wilmington, Illinois, and talk to range of guests about one of the great restoration projects in the history of the planet.

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Helianthus!

2018-09-23

The cast and crew of Green Scene’s play “Helianthus!” talk about this theatrical history of the plant we call a sunflower. On the final day of Food Waste Weekend, Gary Oppenheimer of AmpleHarvest.org promotes distribution of excess food in America.

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Crazy About Chickens and Monarchs

2018-09-16

Members of the Chicago Chicken Enthusiasts promote the 2018 Windy City Coop & Eco-Yard Tour…and provide some musical entertainment. Doug Taron, PhD from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum reports on large numbers of migrating monarch butterflies.

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The Power of Dirt; Hydrangea Help

2018-09-09

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?

2018-09-02

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.

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Seaweed Chronicles and Trout Tales

2018-08-26

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

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Roundup Loses in Court; Talking Trees with Skeet

2018-08-19

Arborist M.D. Skeet from Bartlett Tree Experts talks summer tree issues. Carey Gillam, author of Whitewash: The Story of Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science, reports on a huge court judgment against the Monsanto and its weed killer Roundup.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 49.36MB - Duration: 1:46:07 m (65 kbps 44100 Hz)


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