Showing posts with label local foods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local foods. Show all posts
Monday, August 2, 2010

Will Work for Food

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We started picking corn at 7:30 on a hot, humid Saturday morning in July. It was the kind of day where weather forecasters talk about dew po...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

Sprouting Kids' Interest in Healthy Food and Food Production

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Among the rows of the farmer’s “Market at the Square” of Urbana, pictures of a small chicken – a chick – peer out on shoulder-high signs. T...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

N. First Street Community Garden Aims to Feed Spirits, Minds and Bodies

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Sonya Lynch, program director at the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club , and her son stand in front of a vacant city lot in Champaign that will...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Provena Covenant Medical Center Donates Land for Garden for Eastern Illinois Food Bank

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The farmland in this picture isn't much to look at right now, but come July, dark green stalks of sweet corn will fill up 2.5 acres of t...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Rural King, ACES, Community Members Meet To Organize Free Community Garden

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Ten of us gathered around tables in a small banquet room at Ryan's restaurant on Thursday, drawn together by the prospect of a communit...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

New High Tunnels at Student Farm Will Allow Year Round Growing Season

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The earth was solid beneath my feet except for patches of mud that clung to my boots as I walked toward three greenhouse-like structures on...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Growing Hope!

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Just when the winter blues and economy woes had me in a headlock, I attended a panel on local foods last night hosted by CCNET and grew a n...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Urbana City Council Goals Promote Community Health and Wellness

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The draft 2009-2013 Urbana City Council and Mayor Goals represent core principles that will guide city governance and planning over the n...