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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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How does your garden grow: Make your own compost

by Cassandra West April 24, 2011 Composting

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 about [...]

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Mixing it up with Erlene The Compost Queen

by Lori Rotenberk October 13, 2010 Composting
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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 Collective [...]

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Evanston City Council passes hen ordinance, 6-3

by Lori Rotenberk September 28, 2010 Chicken farmers
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By Lori Rotenberk, Seeding Chicago Raising chickens is now legal in Evanston, a move that makes it one of the many cities nationally that have passed laws allowing residents to keep hens. Before a 6-3 vote by the Evanston City Council in favor of the ordinance, local alderman approved additional amendments that include a $50 [...]

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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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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 movement, [...]

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