Guests: Faith Campbell , senior policy representative at The Nature Conservancy, on new regulations proposed by the USDA to keep non-native insects and diseases out of the country; Guy Sternberg from Starhill Forest Arboretum on the latest recognition of this downstate treasure; Connie Spreen, co-founder and executive director of Experimental Station, on the final days of the 61st Street Garden in the Lawndale neighborhood and a public meeting scheduled for November 12 on moving forward.

Guests: Commissioner Debra Shore of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on Cook County Watershed Management Ordinance Public Review; Jack Darin, director of Illinois Sierra Club on their 50th Anniversary Celebration; Rick DiMaio talks about harvesting woes for Illinois farmers.

Discussions on 350.org International Day of Climate Action and City of Chicago's backtracking on Blue Cart rollout. Guests: Urban Worm Girl Stepanie Davies, Compost Queen Lynn Bement, Shedd Aquarium horticulturist Christine Nye, and Charles Martin of Terra Biotics.

The 2010 STIHL Tour des Trees launch from Millennium Park, to benefit the TREE Fund. Guests: Scott Jamieson from Bartlett Tree Experts; riders Andrew Fittsley, Beth Buchanan, John Kirchner and Kristin Wild; Geoff Cowan from The Davey Tree Expert Company and Shawn Kingzette from The Care of Trees; Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Environment Suzanne Malec-McKenna; and rock icon and world class tree farmer Chuck Leavell.

Special Broadcast: "Our Community Garden" from Family Focus Our Place, 2010 Dewey in Evanston, sponsored by CEDA. Conversations about the Health & Wellness Fair and Community Garden Unveiling.

Special Broadcast: "Growing In Austin" from the Third Unitarian Church in the Austin Neighborhood of Chicago. A discussion of Urban Agriculture issues with a wide-ranging panel of experts: urban organizers and urban farmers.

Discussion about Chicago Marathon and how tree trimmers can fight gangs in Chicago. Guests: Ryan Richardson of Richardson Farm in Spring Grove, Illinois, home of the world's larges corn maze; Stacey Pfingsten of No Foam Chicago.

Guests: Photographer Ernest J. Schweit of Wisconsin Barns, Jamie Henn of 350.org, local organizer Dave Lloyd of 350 DuPage--Sights and Sounds for Climate Action, John Didier and Gene McMullen of 2009 Great Pumpkin Weigh off at Didier Farms

Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune writer and author of her own blogsite Growing in Chicago, co-hosts. Guests: Friends of the Forest Preserves Executive Director Benjamin Cox on Hinsdale land grab, conversation about the problems of harvesting plants and insects from the wild.

Guests: Monarch butterfly correspondent and member of Monarch Watch Bob Erlich, Morton Arboretum Community Trees Advocate Edith Makra, Safer Pest Control Project's Steve Pincuspy