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Read MoreGrow lights are essential for healthy seedlings
My daughter bounded up the basement stairs today and jokingly asked, “Hey, Mom, are you growing marijuana down here?” She had spotted my grow light and the tiny green sprouts popping out of the pots of dirt on the basement floor. “No,” I reassured her, “it’s the beginning of my vegetable garden.”
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Read MoreOne Earth Film Fest serves up food films
Food is on the menu at this weekend’s One Earth Film Festival. Three films, “Ingredients,” “Food Patriots” and “Soul Food Junkies,” will take up issues related to the dark side of the food industry, the growing food justice movement and how activists, farmers and plenty of fed-up people are fighting back against a broken and unhealthy food system. Last we heard, plenty of tickets are still available...
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Read MoreChicago Food hubs connect producers, buyers
The U. S. Department of Agriculture has compiled the first Regional Food Hub Resource Guide, which lists these innovative business models across the country—from Amissville, Va., to Salinas, Calif. The guide will interest those looking for businesses that connect producers with buyers. “The Regional Food Hub Resource Guide is an important tool to help promote local and regional efforts to support...
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Grow lights are essential for healthy seedlings
My daughter bounded up the basement stairs today and jokingly asked, “Hey, Mom, are you growing marijuana down here?” She had spotted my grow light and the tiny green sprouts popping out of the pots of dirt on the basement floor. “No,” I reassured her, “it’s the beginning of my vegetable garden.”
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School gardens to take root with unused NATO funds
Students at 60 Chicago Public Schools soon will be getting lessons in growing food from a Boulder, Colo.-based nonprofit called The Kitchen [Community] (TKC).
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Chicago Food hubs connect producers, buyers
The U. S. Department of Agriculture has compiled the first Regional Food Hub...
Read MoreSuburban gardener maximizes her space for growing food
Debbie Kong, a master gardener and gardening educator in Chicago’s...
Read MoreGarfield Park Conservatory teaches greener living
The Garfield Park Conservatory on Chicago’s West Side is offering another...
Read MoreRoot Riot community gardeners’ work day in Oak Park
If you have a garden, you’ve got to work it. Every gardener knows that...
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