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Gardening

It’s seed swap season around Chicago

by Cassandra West February 24, 2012 Chicago
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This is the time of year for seed swaps around Chicago. Several groups have swaps of all sorts planned this weekend and next. Chicago Botanic Garden Seed Swap Sunday, Feb. 26 2 to 5 p.m. Details: Featuring Diane Ott Whealy co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange and author of “Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver.” Diane [...]

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Suburban gardener maximizes her space for growing food

by Cassandra West August 15, 2011 Gardening

Debbie Kong, a master gardener and gardening educator in Chicago’s western suburbs, gave us a tour recently of her spread. Debbie decided this year to expand her “farmette,” as we fondly refer to her garden, and use more of her land to grow food. She and her daughter, who’s known as Little Green Girl, worked [...]

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Root Riot community gardeners’ work day in Oak Park

by Cassandra West July 21, 2011 Community gardening

If you have a garden, you’ve got to work it. Every gardener knows that or will soon learn it. Root Riot, a community garden in Oak Park with approximately 50 beds, held a workday on July 16 to pull up weeds and put down wood chips. The garden even inaugurated its newly built table and [...]

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Nothing better than food from your own garden

by Editor May 30, 2011 Gardening

By Nancy Traver Spring is getting on here in northern Illinois, and now is the time to get going on your garden. Your effort will pay off later when you’re enjoying the fresh lettuce, radishes and — much later — delicious tomatoes from your garden. There is nothing better than going into your yard, picking [...]

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