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South Side gardens showcase Chicago’s green thumbs

by Cassandra West August 1, 2010 Community gardening
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Share SEEDING CHICAGO’S VIDEO REPORT ON THE SOUTH SIDE JULY 31 GARDEN TOUR City and suburban residents and foreign tourists piled into a yellow school bus Sat., July 31 for a tour of Chicago South Side’s urban farms and gardens. NeighorSpace presented the free tour in conjunction with the Chicago Park District. About 30 people [...]

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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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