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Food gardens help revitalize Chicago’s Englewood

by Editor July 19, 2010 Community

  By Susan Richardson Within earshot of the Green Line on a residential street in Englewood, Dip Ross sells chips and soft drinks and locally grown produce at his food stand. Bell peppers, onions, corn and squash are sold along with beef nachos and snow cones.  The produce comes from Rowan Trees Farm, a block [...]

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Summer at the Hull-House Farm: Episode 3

by Cassandra West July 13, 2010 Seasons
Hull-House Heirloom farm near downtown Chicago

We’re back with our latest episode on the Hull-House Heirloom Farm, located at the University of Illinois-Chicago campus. When we checked in July 1 with farm director Ryan Beck, he was in the middle of talking with a group of students visiting from Northwestern University, explaining the rewards and challenges of managing an urban farm. [...]

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This is what fresh looks like

by Cassandra West July 7, 2010 Local food production
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Those of us who are first-time urban farmers are always amazed at what we get from the soil. We go into this food-growing venture hopeful, expectant and not quite knowing what our efforts — and the Earth — will yield. So anything we harvest is a pleasure and a reward. I picked my first pepper [...]

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Will Allen on the urban farm revolution

by Cassandra West June 27, 2010 Economic development
Will Allen, Growing Power founder and CEO

CHICAGO — Even if you know only a little about urban agriculture, you’ve probably heard of Will Allen, the nation’s foremost local food movement leader and advocate. Allen, who founded the Milwaukee-based urban farm and education center Growing Power Inc., was in Chicago at Fourth Presbyterian Church Thursday (June 24) evening to talk about his [...]

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Philadelphia urban farm grows roots in old industrial neighborhood

by Cassandra West June 20, 2010 Economic development
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PHILADELPHIA — Farming in the city isn’t always a viable business model, those who attempt it will admit. Sometimes, though, an urban farmer gets it right—growing not only good, fresh food but building strong community ties along the way. That’s what Greensgrow Farm has done since opening a dozen years ago in one of this [...]

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USDA Report: Local Food Markets Growing, Effects on Health Still Unclear

by Editor May 29, 2010 environment

By Susan Richardson Farmers markets and other  direct sales of produce to consumers account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production, according to a new report by the Economic Research Service, a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  “For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage of [...]

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GREEN FESTIVAL REPORT: Benefiting from the Green Economy

by Editor May 23, 2010 Community

COMMENTARY By Susan Richardson As Nicholas Lemann explains in The Promised Land, the advent of the mechanical cotton picker in the 1940s displaced black sharecroppers, adding to the Great Migration of African-Americans from the South to the North. Technological changes have always had an economic, social and racial impact.  Today, as we face another economic shift – this [...]

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Financing Local Food: ‘Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is’

by Editor May 15, 2010 environment

By Susan Richardson From support for supermarkets in neighborhoods with more liquor stores than healthy food choices to efforts to increase the number of USDA certified organic poultry processors, philanthropic organizations are increasingly taking part in a growing movement for sustainable agriculture and access to healthy food.   “This is a time of convergence,” said Karen [...]

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