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Fresh Moves mobile food market hits Chicago streets

by Cassandra West June 22, 2011 Community
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In urban communities known as “food deserts,” fresh, healthy produce is often nowhere to be found. Processed meats, sodas and chips, well, those are available in abundance. To improve nutrition and curb digesting too many empty calories, residents in food deserts must have access to more fruits and vegetables. Now, there’s an option. Fresh Moves, [...]

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In thick of winter, seed swap season heats up

by Cassandra West February 7, 2011 Community
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The snow may keep coming down here in Chicago, but we know the growing season is coming, too. To help gardeners get ready, communities and organizations are hosting seed swaps this month. In the last few years, seed swaps have become popular in the U.S., and they’re growing trend in the U.K., where Seedy Sunday [...]

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Logan Square orchard project moves closer to reality

by Lori Rotenberk September 24, 2010 Community
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By Lori Rotenberk, Seeding Chicago staff Pocked and puddled, all that grows in this vacant site along the Blue Line at Milwaukee Avenue and Logan Boulevard is the amount of debris. Sodden paper, junk food wrappers, a cluster of spent tires set against a graffiti coated concrete wall. Yet, a sign of hope sprouts. Literally. [...]

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Add your input on America’s Great Outdoors Initiative

by Cassandra West August 27, 2010 Community

If you have time on Monday, Aug. 30 to attend this important event, you can offer input into President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative, a 21st Century agenda for conservation, recreation and connecting with the outdoors. Share your ideas with Amy Salzman, Associate Director for Policy Outreach, White House Council on Environmental Quality; Will Shafroth, [...]

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Food gardens help revitalize Chicago’s Englewood

by Editor July 19, 2010 Community

  By Susan Richardson Within earshot of the Green Line on a residential street in Englewood, Dip Ross sells chips and soft drinks and locally grown produce at his food stand. Bell peppers, onions, corn and squash are sold along with beef nachos and snow cones.  The produce comes from Rowan Trees Farm, a block [...]

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Shabazz Food Hub connects farms and cities

by Editor May 27, 2010 Community
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A young volunteer at Shabazz Food Hub Market Days By Susan Richardson The smell of mustard greens sautéed in olive oil with garlic fills the air in an auditorium at Betty Shabazz International Charter School in Chicago.  People browse and buy produce and seedlings on a Saturday afternoon. It is Market Day at the Shabazz Food [...]

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GREEN FESTIVAL REPORT: Benefiting from the Green Economy

by Editor May 23, 2010 Community

COMMENTARY By Susan Richardson As Nicholas Lemann explains in The Promised Land, the advent of the mechanical cotton picker in the 1940s displaced black sharecroppers, adding to the Great Migration of African-Americans from the South to the North. Technological changes have always had an economic, social and racial impact.  Today, as we face another economic shift – this [...]

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Hull-House farm (Episode 2): Some soup and signs of growth

by Cassandra West May 21, 2010 Community
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We promised a few weeks ago in a post about the Hull-House Museum urban farm that we’d return with regular updates on its 2010 growing season. We got back to the farm to record Episode 2 (see video below) this week after stopping in at the weekly (Tuesdays) Re-Thinking Soup lecture and lunch, a big [...]

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