Lisa Hilgenberg, manager of the Regenstein Fruit and Vegetable Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden, has advice for fall gardening, including bulb planting. Molly Flanagan is vice president of policy for Alliance for the Great Lakes, and Tony Maas is manager of strategies for Freshwater Future and the Director of the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW Canada). They report on their organizations' battle against algae blooms in Lake Erie.

Jody Osmund of Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm and CSA returns to The Mike Nowak Show to talk about the practical and political achievements of the Slow Food Movement.

Jody Osmund, who, with his family runs Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm, talks about his experiences raising livestock sustainably and humanely, and his work as part of the worldwide Slow Food Movement.

Nicole Virgil and Ron Cress each explain why they are fighting their town's laws to grow, respectively, food and native plants. Michele Hoffman talks about a new growing technique that might give the world’s declining coral reefs a fighting chance.

Nicole Virgil talks about her family's fight with suburban Elmhurst to keep a hoop house in their yard under which they can grow vegetables. Then Ron Cress reports on his own battle to grow native plants in his DeKalb, Illinois yard. Michele Hoffman returns to the Science Desk to explain about a pioneering technique called microfragmenting that can rapidly grow corals and perhaps help populations rebound in certain parts of the world.

Paul Coffey from the Art Institute of Chicago and Jeff Levrant of Homan Grown explain how the Oaks of North Lawndale project will bring trees and art to that west side Chicago community.

Paul Coffey is Vice Provost & Dean of Community Engagement at the e School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). and Jeff Levrant is co-founder of Homan Grown, a wholesale perennial & tree nursery. They discuss a project called Oaks of North Lawndale, which will see the planting of 7,000 and accompanying art in that Chicago neighborhood.

Nicole Virgil wants to grow vegetables in a backyard hoop house and Ron Cress wants to grow native plants on his lot, and they both find themselves fighting City Hall to make it happen. Michele Hoffman welcomes Dr. David Vaughan to the Science Desk to talk about his new growing technique that might give the world's declining coral reefs a fighting chance.

Author and native plant landscaper Benjamin Vogt talks about his new book, A New Garden Ethic. Gale Community Academy Principal Augustine 'Augie' Emuwa and A Just Harvest’s Rev. Marilyn Pagan-Banks and Tonia Andreina a teaching students about growing food

Benjamin Vogt is a native plant landscaper and author of a new book, A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future, He and Jeff Swano from DigRightIn Landscaping preview the Impact Conference: Building Sustainable Landscapes, presented by the Illinois Landscape Contractors Association. Principal Augustine "Augie" Emuwa of Chicago's Gale Community Academy is joined by Tonia Andreina and Executive Director Rev. Marilyn Pagán-Banks  from A Just Harvest about using urban agriculture to create economic opportunity in the city.