Edith Makra, Director of Environmental Initiatives for the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus celebrates a milestone for the Greenest Region Compact. Tony Abruscato of the Chicago Flower & Garden Show, previews the 811 Chicago Garden at Taste of Chicago.

Edith Makra, Director of Environmental Initiatives for the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, explains how the GRC2, or Greenest Region Compact. is making the Chicago area more sustainable. Tony Abruscato from thel Chicago Flower and Garden Show previews the Humana Farm to Festival exhibit at Taste of Chicago, which features the 811 Chicago Garden.

Edith Makra, Director of Environmental Initiatives for the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, explains how the GRC2, or Greenest Region Compact. is making the Chicago area more sustainable. Tony Abruscato from thel Chicago Flower and Garden Show previews the Humana Farm to Festival exhibit at Taste of Chicago, which features the 811 Chicago Garden.

Author, lecturer and “farmden” cultivator Lee Reich talks about his new book, The Ever Curious Gardener. Folks from the Dearborn Garden Walk and the Bucktown Garden Walk come to the studio to promote their summer events.

Gardening expert and author Lee Reich talks about his new book, The Ever Curious Gardener: Using a Little Natural Science for a Much Better Garden. Andrew Keppel and Mike Provost from SavATree Tree, Shrub & Lawn Care answer tree questions following a hot, wet early summer. Nina Ganz and Mimi Winters preview the upcoming Dearborn Garden Walk/Diamond Jubilee, while Olivia Belmonti and Meredith Flagstad do the same for the Bucktown Garden Walk.

Gardening expert and author Lee Reich talks about his new book, The Ever Curious Gardener: Using a Little Natural Science for a Much Better Garden. Andrew Keppel and Mike Provost from SavATree Tree, Shrub & Lawn Care answer tree questions following a hot, wet early summer. Nina Ganz and Mimi Winters preview the upcoming Dearborn Garden Walk/Diamond Jubilee, while Olivia Belmonti and Meredith Flagstad do the same for the Bucktown Garden Walk.

Garden expert Melinda Myers talk searly summer gardening. Environmental attorney Albert Ettinger and Cindy Skrukrud from the Illinois Chapter of the Sierra Club explain their lawsuit with Chicago Trump Tower over its violation of the Clean Water Act.

Garden writer, lecturer, and media personality Melinda Myers returns to the show to talk early summer gardening, including what to when there's too much rain. Environmental lawyer Albert Ettinger and Cindy Skrukrud, Clean Water Program Director for the Illinois Chapter of the Sierra Club, discuss the lawsuit against the Chicago Trump International Hotel and Tower over its continuing vilation of the Clean Water Act.

Mike and Peggy hang out at the 47th annual Custer Street Fair in Evanston, Illinois. Tom Klitzkie of Evanston-based Nature’s Perspective Landscaping joins them to talk about the viburnum leaf beetle, which is beginning to cause misery in Midwest gardens. Meteorologist Rick DiMaio stops by to explain why it is so hot so early in the season, and has other climatological information.

Mike and Peggy are live from the Custer Fair in Evanston, Illinois, where they welcome Tom Klitzkie of Nature's Perspective Landscaping, meteorologist Rick DiMaio and more.