GROW (Garden Resources of Woodlawn)

03/07/2014

http://www.growwoodlawn.org/247-2/

An Invitation to Woodlawn Gardeners - Sat., Mar. 15, 2-4pm All Woodlawn gardeners, you are invited to the GROW organization 2014 kick-off event. GROW (Garden Resources of Woodlawn) is a group of Wo...

06/06/2013

http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/04/it-is-not-a-fairytale-seattle-to-build-nations-first-food-forest.html

Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking. Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different...

06/06/2013

http://hpherald.com/2013/06/05/k-a-m-seeking-gardener/

By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer K.A.M. Isaiah Israel and the Kenwood United Church of Christ are looking for a volunteer production manager for their two gardens in Hyde Park/Kenwood. The organic fruits and vegetables raised in the gardens are sent to soup kitchens and other hot meal programs o...

05/13/2013

This is how it happens

05/09/2013

http://www.chicagobotanic.org/ctl/evite/index.html?utm_source=Chicago+Botanic+Garden&utm_campaign=2e62a0b817-School_Gardening_04_30_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f8c61d87c3-2e62a0b817-41903993

04/18/2013

Wow, its amazing how quickly we get knee deep in the work of gardening each spring. There's quite a bit going on already. Planning a new garden for the 6400 block of Kimbark and assisting where we can with other garden efforts in the neighborhood.

03/27/2013

http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la.html

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."

03/27/2013

http://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/eat-pray-love

“Lawns have long seemed strange to me,” says architect and urban farmer Robert Nevel. Although perfect for baseball, he admits, grass is “silly and unsustainable as ground cover” and as a setting for a religious building, “profane.”

03/27/2013

Congrats to KAMII's Food Justice and Sustainability Program for the recognition of their efforts in the current display at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum:
http://www.naturemuseum.org/the-museum/exhibits/food-the-nature-of-eating

03/18/2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/17/emanuel-urban-farm-networ_n_2896417.html

Under a recently-announced new agriculture plan, vacant lots on Chicago's South Side could be transformed into thriving — and profitable — urban farms in just three years.