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Author Elaine Weiss: Women have rich history in local foods, urban gardening

by Lori Rotenberk October 5, 2010 Agriculture

Share The food movement as we know it today really isn’t that new. During World War I, the Women’s Land Army, also known as the “farmettes” and “soldiers of the soil” came together to help feed the nation. They helped harvest cherries in Michigan and cotton in Georgia. Their work and struggle is documented in [...]

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Hull-House farm (Episode 2): Some soup and signs of growth

by Cassandra West May 21, 2010 Community
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Share We promised a few weeks ago in a post about the Hull-House Museum urban farm that we’d return with regular updates on its 2010 growing season. We got back to the farm to record Episode 2 (see video below) this week after stopping in at the weekly (Tuesdays) Re-Thinking Soup lecture and lunch, a [...]

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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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