The Mike Nowak Show

By Mike Nowak

Mike and Peggy cover ever a little bit of everything green under the sun—the environment, gardening, local food, sustainable living and more—in a style that is casual, accessible, entertaining, inform... more

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March 02, 2015 Will GMO Food Labeling Come to Illinois?
Mike talks to Jessica Fujan, an organizer for Food and Water Watch, which is working to get the Illinois Senate to pass a law labeling GMO food products in the state. After ballot initiatives failed in both California and Washington State, it represents a new tack by the anti-GMO forces.
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23min
February 28, 2015 The One Earth Film Festival Is Back
The Fourth Annual One Earth Film Festival runs from March 6 to 8 and features more than 35 films in 30 venues in and around Chicago. Mike sits down with three of the people behind this self-identified deep roots event--Cassandra West, Gina Robbins and David Holmquist--to discover how they choose the green films that are presented. In the middle of this conversation, Mike talks to filmmaker Marcy Cravat, who directed and produced the stunning and thought-provoking documentary Angel Azul.
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February 17, 2015 Why Tim Magner Wants to Create Nature's Farm Camp for Kids
Tim Magner has written children's books and created truck farms to introduce kids to where there food comes from. Now he is working with people like like Elena Marre and Nance Klehm to create Nature's Farm Camp, a place for kids to have fun while connecting with nature, food, each other and themselves. They're also in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign, which runs through February 22.
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21min
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February 08, 2015 Purple Leaf Farms Takes Another Step Forward; An Interview With Jessica Rinks
Mike talks to Jessica Rinks, owner and operator of Purple Leaf Farms, an organically operated operation that started in Forest Park, Illinois, moved to Elgin, and is now setting up operations on the south side of Chicago, thanks to its alliance with Growing Power Chicago.
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37min
February 03, 2015 Purple Leaf Farms Takes Another Step Forward; An Interview With Jessica Rinks
Mike talks to Jessica Rinks, owner and operator of Purple Leaf Farms, an organically operated operation that started in Forest Park, Illinois, moved to Elgin, and is now setting up operations on the south side of Chicago, thanks to its alliance with Growing Power Chicago.
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February 01, 2015 My Building Doesn't Recycle, An Interview with App Creator Claire Micklin
Mike talks to Claire Micklin, who, through a program called Open Gov Hack Night, is part of a team that created an app called My Building Doesn't Recycle. The app is designed to let people in multi-unit buildings in Chicago report if their building doesn't seem to have a recycling program.
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33min
January 31, 2015 Start a Community Food Garden...with LaManda Joy
LaManda Joy is one of the founding members of The Peterson Garden Project, arguably the most successful community gardening effort in Chicago since World War II. She has just written a book to help people follow in her footsteps. It's called Start a Community Food Garden, The Essential handbook. She and Mike chat about that, as well as the continuing success of PGP.
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42min
January 21, 2015 Mike Talks to Garden Writer and Show Host Kate Copsey
Kate Copsey is host of The Master Gardener Hour on America's Web Radio.com. She and Mike have known each other for more than a decade, and she even hired him for his very first garden talk. They discuss gardening in different parts of America--including hardiness zones, soils and other conditions. They even talk about Kate's celiac disease and how she has adapted to it.
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30min

FAQs about The Mike Nowak Show:

How many episodes does The Mike Nowak Show have?

The podcast currently has 1,410 episodes available.