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Healthy food hub opens at Chicago’s Malcolm X College

by Editor October 8, 2010 black farmers
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Share By Susan Richardson Less than a year after opening its second food hub in Chicago, Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living recently opened its third hub at Malcolm X College on the city’s West Side. Through biweekly market days, the hub connects residents with fresh produce from regional and national farmers. The Center [...]

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Food gardens help revitalize Chicago’s Englewood

by Editor July 19, 2010 Community

Share   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 [...]

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USDA Report: Local Food Markets Growing, Effects on Health Still Unclear

by Editor May 29, 2010 environment

Share By Susan Richardson Farmers markets and other  direct sales of produce to consumers account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production, according to a new report by the Economic Research Service, a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  “For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage [...]

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Shabazz Food Hub connects farms and cities

by Editor May 27, 2010 Community
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Share 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 [...]

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GREEN FESTIVAL REPORT: Benefiting from the Green Economy

by Editor May 23, 2010 Community

Share 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 – [...]

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Healthy Food Bill Introduced in US Senate

by Editor April 13, 2010 Green movement

Share By Susan Richardson New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced a new bill Monday aimed at bringing healthy food to underserved communities.  The Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which is supported by the Obama administration, would invest $1 billion in grants and loans to build more than 2,100 new or renovated grocery stores, corner stores, and farmers’ markets [...]

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Trees are budding, but green movement in full bloom

by Cassandra West April 2, 2010 Green movement

Share As the first buds of spring start appearing on trees here in Chicago, we’re seeing just how vibrant the local agriculture scene is. It is blooming in so many directions and so many places. This year, we think, is going to be a watershed one. The growing green movement we’re trying to chronicle and [...]

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