Home and Garden
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Include cheat sheet with unusual veggiesOct 31, 2021 4:24 pm - Ever cooked a patty pan squash? Yeah, me neither. In fact, I'd never even seen one until one of the Giving Garden drop-off sites called and asked if I knew the origin o...
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Garden volunteers ever vigilantOct 31, 2021 4:24 pm - Some people fight with their tomatoes. No, really. It's often a battle just to keep them alive. This is not the case for 400 students who planted their garden this sprin...
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Man's passion helps grow church gardenOct 31, 2021 4:24 pm - Frank Peavy pondered a world without hunger over his fence line. The passionate gardener just knew his friends at church would help the community's neediest residents if...
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Budding gardeners learn a lesson about plantsOct 31, 2021 4:13 pm - Anne Nagro isn't one to turn away a tomato plant. What about 80 to the garden at Woodland Elementary West School in Gages Lake. tomato plants -- all presented by smiling...
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Sale of farm impacts pantry's collection effortsNov 18, 2021 8:35 pm - Sometimes, blessings disappear just as fast as they materialize. The departure, though, usually is more noticeable, which was the case this year at Naperville's Loaves a...
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Recognizing gardeners who giveNov 18, 2021 8:35 pm - Gardening takes effort. And getting tons and tons of fresh produce to area food pantries is no easy task. To accomplish that every summer, though, the Giving Garden prog...
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Fun and gardening goes hand in hand for studentsNov 18, 2021 8:34 pm - A group of boys squatted on the ground giggling and cheering as if they'd just found the world's coolest discovery. Perhaps they had. "Don't break it," one of them yelle...
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Plant what you love in a kitchen garden and don't forget to share your bountyNov 18, 2021 8:34 pm - Not so long ago, wild black raspberries grew everywhere in this region. Nowadays, a teeny store-bought container of red raspberries will set you back a pretty penny. Gro...
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Church grows food for needy families' shelvesNov 18, 2021 8:34 pm - Everything's coming up tomatoes at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Mundelein. There are little ones, big ones, plums, cherries, heirlooms, Big Boys, champions and Early G...
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Girl Scouts get in the gardening grooveNov 18, 2021 8:33 pm - The green beans Linda Koss and her daughter Anna, a Girl Scout, picked from the Naperville garden plot looked good enough to eat. In fact, they were deliciously tempting...