Mike broadcasts from the Center on Halsted in anticipation of the 2012 Pride Parade Broadcast, which he co-hosts. Commissioner Debra Shore from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago discusses how the MWRD is addressing health and sanitary issues. Wes King of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance attempts to unravel the almost impossibly complex 2012 Farm Bill, now wending its way through Congress.

Local food advocate Debbie Hillman talks about her effort to inject food policy into the political dialogue in an election year.

Todd Jones promotes his successful Kickstarter Campaign for Every Last Morsel, which will be a website that brings together people who grow fresh local food with those seeking it. Carlos DeJesus, assistant principal at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, explains how students at the school helped to get a greenhouse built on the roof and how they continue to fight to bring fresh produce to that so called urban food desert.

Arborist Mark Younger from the City of Evanston Forestry Department responds to an inquiry about trees that have been wrapped with decorative lights, and whether or not those lights will compromise the health of the trees. Then Mary DiCarlo from the TREE Fund joins the conversation to talk about an event to support the 2012 STIHL Tour des Trees in Oregon later this summer. Debbie Hillman stops by the studio to talk about her Illinois Food Survey, which will attempt to help her put food issues front and center in the upcoming elections.