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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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Chicago-area Whole Foods Markets team with Family Farmed to sell more locally grown produce

by Cassandra West March 17, 2011 local agriculture
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Share During the winter months, many of the tomatoes in local Whole Foods Markets are imported from Mexico. This summer expect to find more Illinois-grown tomatoes in Chicago-area Whole Foods Markets. You can also expect more locally grown asparagus, melons, cucumbers and fruits, too. Through a partnership with FamilyFarmed.org, Whole Foods Markets has plans to [...]

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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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'Greenest Market' coming

by Cassandra West May 14, 2010 Community

Share Billing itself as Chicago’s “greenest” market, the new Glenwood Sunday Market in Rogers Park opens June 6 at 9 a.m., with a ribbon cutting at 8:30. Food produced by 11 farmers will be offered. All the farmers are and either certified organic or transitioning to organic and come from within 200 radius of Zip [...]

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Action Alert – Protect Your Right to Know Which Foods Contain GMOs

by Cassandra West May 4, 2010 environment

Share Please send this URGENT message to U.S. Government leaders to protect your right to know which foods are made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Click and send an email today to the Secretaries of State (Clinton), Agriculture (Vilsack), and Health and Human Services (Sebelius). Please try to do this before Wednesday, May 5, but [...]

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A full-service supermarket for the Near West Side?

by Cassandra West April 5, 2010 Community

Share Chicago’s Near West Side may be getting a 60,000-square-foot full-service supermarket by next summer if the city’s Community Development Commission approves the plan, Crain’s Chicago Business reported today. Pete’s Fresh Market, which operates six stores on the city’s South and Southwest sides and sells organic products, would construct a new store on the southeast [...]

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