Jessica Fujan, Midwest Organizer for Food & Water Watch; A. Bryan Endres, Associate Professor of Agricultural Law at the University of Illinois; and Megan Klein with the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council discuss Illinois SB 1666, which would require GMO food to be labeled in the state. Michele Hoffman Trotter talks about her documentary Microcosm, which looks at the mostly-unseen world in our oceans. Dan Kosta previews an upcoming Prairie State Bonsai Society show at the Morton Arboretum.

Mike talks about the aging farmer population in America, the new breed of organic growers who will replace them, and the institutions that are helping those young farmers get established. His panelists are Chris Prchal of Troggs Hollow CSA, Alison Parker of Radical Root Farm, Sheri Doyel of Angelic Organics Learning Center, and Mike Sands of Liberty Prairie Foundation.

Wally Schmidke, Garden Center Manager at Berthold's Garden Center, chats with Mike about garden problems, pesticide use and preparing garden beds for fall. Mike moderates a discussion about the future of organic farming in America with Chris Prchal of Troggs Hollow CSA, Alison Parker of Radical Root Farm, Sheri Doyel of Angelic Organics Learning Center, and Mike Sands of Liberty Prairie Foundation.

Michele Hoffman is a Chicago educator and now filmmaker, who is directing a documentary called Microcosm, which looks at our oceans and their most ubiquitous and, at the same time, perhaps their most vulnerable organisms.

Mike welcomes two experts from Chalet Nursery in Wilmette--Jennifer Brennan, horticultural information specialist and co-host of Dig In Chicago, and Bill Leuenberger, Soil and Turf Managment Manager--to talk about fall lawn care. Niki Jabbour, host of The Weekend Gardener with Niki Jabbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia, shares the airwaves with Mike in a half hour simulcast of their radio shows.