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Garfield Park Conservatory teaches greener living

by Cassandra West August 15, 2011 Chicago
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Share The Garfield Park Conservatory on Chicago’s West Side is offering another series of workshops for those interested in greener living. We encourage you to check them out. Here’s what coming up next on the Conservatory’s “Growing & Green Living” schedule: How to Harvest, Use & Brew Compost Wednesday, Aug. 17, 6-7:30 pm $5 suggested [...]

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FAQs on proposed urban ag ordinance in Chicago

by Cassandra West August 4, 2011 Agriculture
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Share Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration is moving along with plans to define urban agriculture in Chicago as it tries to get an ordinance passed by the City Council. In late July, the Mayor’s Office released an FAQ on urban agriculture and a document on urban farms (commercial) and community gardens (non-commercial). One difference between an [...]

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Root Riot community gardeners’ work day in Oak Park

by Cassandra West July 21, 2011 Community gardening

Share 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 [...]

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Nothing better than food from your own garden

by Editor May 30, 2011 Gardening

Share 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, [...]

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A Sunday seed swap and seed starting demonstration

by Cassandra West March 7, 2011 Community gardening
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Share Having never gone to a seed swap, I had only a vague idea of what to expect when I signed up for the Forest Park Community Garden 2011 Annual Seed Swap and Seed Starting Demonstration. Would anyone be remotely interested in the garden-variety Burpee seeds I wanted to swap? Would the swappers be tripping [...]

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Woodlawn garden wins Chicago landscape award

by Editor October 20, 2010 Community gardening

Share By Susan Richardson The 65th Street and Woodlawn Community Garden recently won first prize in Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Landscape Awards in the vegetable garden category, competing against 13 other gardens. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office, which runs a vegetable garden at the County Jail, and the Fulton Street Flower and Vegetable Garden [...]

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USDA will expand support for school food gardens

by Editor September 7, 2010 Community gardening

Share By Susan Richardson Just in time for the beginning of the school year, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a $1 million pilot program to develop and manage community gardens at high-poverty schools in five states. Funded through the National School Lunch Act, the program targets schools where 50 percent or more of [...]

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Krafting a campaign to support food gardens

by Editor August 6, 2010 Community gardening

Share COMMENTARY By Susan Richardson A recent story about Chicago-area Kraft Foods is simply too delicious to ignore. The world’s second- largest food company – and maker of the nutritious Cheez Whiz (“Cheezy and Darn Proud of It!”) – is encouraging the consumers of its Triscuit wheat crackers to grow their own food. Some of [...]

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