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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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How does your garden grow: Make your own compost

by Cassandra West April 24, 2011 Composting

Share Composting was long sort of a mystery to me. Making soil? Your own dirt? I didn’t get it. Even after driving to Milwaukee and taking a tour of Will Allen’s big composting enterprise, Growing Power, I was still wondering what was the big deal about dirt and worms. Then my friend Nancy told me [...]

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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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Mixing it up with Erlene The Compost Queen

by Lori Rotenberk October 13, 2010 Composting
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Share One day last October as she readied to pitch a bag of food waste—fruit skins and peels—into the abyss of the trash bin, Erlene Howard had a whiff of an idea. Instead of tossing the bag she dropped her last name, Howard, and transformed herself into Erlene The Compost Queen, and in May launched [...]

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Building an ‘intentional community’ around permaculture

by Cassandra West July 25, 2010 Local food production
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Share As the local food movement grows, Chicago-area residents are developing more imaginative and creative ways to embrace it and make it work for them. Oak Park resident Estelle Carol is one of those people. An artist and designer, she wants to create an “intentional community” that revolves around transforming her suburban yard into a [...]

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Bee Balm buzz at Garfield Conservatory's Green and Growing Fair

by Cassandra West April 25, 2010 Community

Share We met Mr. Brown Thumb (shy guy wouldn’t let us take his photo) and many other urban gardeners and gardening enthusiasts at Saturday’s Green & Growing Fair at Garfield Park Conservatory. More evidence, we see, that urban agriculture’s roots are getting deeper. You don’t hear the word wholesome much these days, but that’s the [...]

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Looking for Chicago-area urban ag experts, speakers

by Cassandra West April 12, 2010 Community

Share Seeding Chicago wants to know who are the urban agriculture experts out there. Can you write or speak about various topics in urban farming? Can you discuss soil preparation and testing, growing and harvesting techniques, composting, garden design, pest control, irrigation practices or any other topics related to growing food in the city? If [...]

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