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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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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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Chicago food activists stand with Haitian farmers in rejecting Monsanto seeds

by Cassandra West June 1, 2010 Agribusiness

Share Since the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake, many Haitians came to see agriculture as the most practical and long-term solution to healing the land and the economy. Then in stepped big agribusiness, as always, with its own solution, designed more to help its bottom line than the Haitian population. Monsanto, the St. Louis-based agri-chemical company, [...]

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Building Community in Woodlawn

by Editor May 17, 2010 Community
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Share By Susan Richardson Seeding Chicago talked to Benjamin “Benja” Murphy, coordinator of the 65th and Woodlawn Community Garden, about the connection between gardens and community redevelopment. Share

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Wholesome Wave Foundation funds 'Link Bucks' at Farmers Markets

by Cassandra West April 28, 2010 Community

Share Link card users will get more beans for their bucks at Chicago Farmers Market this season thanks to a grant from the Wholesome Wave Foundation to fund a Double Value Coupon Program. Experimental Station and the City of Chicago announced last week a program to accept Link (food stamps) at five city-run farmers markets [...]

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5 Chicago Farmers Markets to accept EBT/LINK this season

by Cassandra West April 22, 2010 Community

Share Five Chicago Farmers Markets have been authorized to accept EBT/LINK cards when the selling season kicks off on May 13, the Mayor’s Office of Special Events announced this week. EBT/LINK service will be available on these days: Tuesdays at Lincoln Square; Wednesdays at South Shore in the ShoreBank parking lot; Thursdays on Daley Plaza; [...]

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A garden grew in Woodlawn…and produced this blog

by Cassandra West March 18, 2010 Neighborhoods

Share Seeding Chicago grew from many long dinner conversations between two friends in summer 2009. One friend, Susan, was a new urban farmer, excited by the prospect of growing her favorite vegetables on the 10 x 10 plot she rented in the Woodlawn Community Garden. The other friend, Cassandra, was intrigued by the idea of [...]

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