Tag: growing home
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Growing Home: Fresh Veggies for Everyone
Once again a sign of life has shown up in the form of food; delicious, locally grown food. I first mentioned the folks at Growing Home last fall when Maggie and I visited their rural farm. A “rural farm” may sound like an oxymoron, but Growing Home also has a couple of ingenious urban farms…
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searching for tomatoes in a food desert
My friend Esther Kang is the editor of Chicago Magazine online and recently sent me this fascinating article from the magazine about food deserts in Chicago. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, the article’s author says this about food deserts, A cluster of blocks without a corner grocery doesn’t by itself warrant the label; an…
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growing home: a day at the farm
This summer we have done some produce shopping at Chicago’s Green City Market, a huge outdoor farmer’s market in Lincoln Park. One of the organizations we’ve become acquainted with at the market (thanks solely to my wife’s inquisitive nature) is Growing Home. On Saturday we drove out to Growing Home’s farm for their Harvest Fest.…
David W. Swanson 