Guests: Joliet Junior College horticultural student Kathy Manow and Roger Phelps of STIHL Inc., who is also a board member of the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET), talk about the importance of the 35th Annual Student Career Days; Jim Slama, founder and president of FamilyFarmed.org, previews this year's FamilyFarmed Expo at the UIC Forum in Chicago; Bob Martin of the Pew Environmental Group explains how they are trying to "save antibiotics" by reducing their use in food animal production; "Good Growing" contributor Martha Boyd talks about the Expo's 6th Annual Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council Summit, and how groups like Advocates for Urban Agriculture are working with the City of Chicago to allow local farmers to prosper.

Guests: Though the interview wasn't scheduled, Mike gets Tom Shepard from the Southeast Environmental Task Force to talk about Wednesday's rally to persuade Governor Pat Quinn to veto legislation that would allow a coal gasification plant to be built in southeast Chicago; Max Muller from Environment Illinois explains legislation recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that attacks clean air and water statutes; Michele Owens, one of the Garden Rant blog writers, talks about her new book, Grow the Good Life: Why a Vegetable Garden Will Make You Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.

Guests: Fernwood Botanical Gardens Executive Director Carol Line previews next Saturday's Spring Garden Symposium with Mike and fellow presenter Chris Woods; Openlands President and CEO Jerry Adelmann talks about the newly-opened Openlands Lakeshore Preserve with preserve site manager Aimee Collins; The Local Beet's Rob Gardner has the lowdown on his website's 2011 list of Chicago area CSAs.

Guests: Don Fenwick from CruiseWorks, Inc. previews Mike's 2012 Caribbean Garden Cruise, which will feature stops at several remarkable tropical gardens; Organic Valley's Theresa Marquez talks about what happens to organics now that the USDA has approved genetically engineered alfalfa and sugar beets; in the Good Growing segment, Mike gets a report from local farmer Kim Marsin of Sweet Home Organics.