{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Good Growing","title":"Ep. 66 Talking Natural Disasters in the Landscape with Carrie McKillip","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3207,"description":"In this episode of the Good Growing podcast, we sit down with University of Illinois Extension educator Carrie McKillip to talk about disaster preparedness and things we as residents in storm-prone Illinois need to consider. Carrie is a Community and Economic Development educator who specializes in helping communities prepare and respond to disasters. We chat about how she does that, keeping an emergency kit, should we be worried about earthquakes in Illinois, and preparing for the disaster we are most likely to face. \n\nPlus we answer actual questions that came into the Extension office during past Illinois disasters.\n\nHow do you get debris out of the lawn following a tornado?\nWhat should you do about trees that are damaged during storms?\nCan you eat produce from a flooded vegetable garden?\nHow can we fix our lawn after being flooded for weeks?\nShould we knock the ice off of branches during an ice storm?\nHow can you make your yard more sustainable from drought?\n\nNative plant list from Indiana/Illinois Sea Grant https://iiseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1-ILLINOIS-NATIVE-PLANTS-FOR-THE-HOME-LANDSCAPE.pdf\n\nWatch us on YouTube https://youtu.be/uYxLlpKnASM\n___\nAny products mentioned during the podcast are in no way a promotion of these products.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/R8M4jy-2EktViSJpDBxEJL2IulcAlRJg8ktxlDJM3UA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNDE1LzE2ODk3/OTA0NTktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}