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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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Backyard chicken enthusiasts unite to make chicken farming legal in Evanston

by Lori Rotenberk September 12, 2010 Chicken farmers
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Share By Lori Rotenberk Seeding Chicago staff They rise early, keep a low-profile and give tours at dusk. Some are professors and others laborers but all share a common stubbornness: “We’re keeping them whether it’s legal or not,” they say, referring to the chickens they keep in their back yards. Proponents of the urban farm [...]

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Crops on the corner: Hull-House farm a model for local production

by Cassandra West April 20, 2010 Community

Share [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi_FO6vG8zk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&hd=1] Standing inside a fenced-in space on the UIC campus, you can see Chicago’s tallest building, the Willis Tower (formerly Sears), a black soaring tube of steel and glass pitched stately against a cloudless sky. Cars, buses and trucks whiz by this barren patch on the corner of Taylor and Halsted streets in a [...]

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"Dirt! The Movie" screens @ Chicago Cultural Center

by Cassandra West March 19, 2010 environment

Share “DIRT! The Movie” explores the wonders of the soil and tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility. Chicago Community Cinema will present a screening of “Dirt!” 2 p.m. Saturday, March 20 Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington St. In the Claudia Cassidy Theater We hope you will come out [...]

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