Garden pros ready to share a bumper crop of advice
Horticulturalist Katie Prochaska will lead a walking tour of the fruit and vegetable garden during the Daily Herald's Giving Garden Day at the Chicago Botanic Garden.FULL STORY
Gardening a badge of honor for Scouts
Sprouts and gardens go hand and hand.
Rarely do they include neckerchiefs. Or badges.
Grayslake is breaking new ground, though, by throwing Scouts in the mix with its vegetable-growing efforts.
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Produce donations help clients struggling to get by
Everything the Giving Garden program stands for starts with the people served by food pantries throughout the area.FULL STORY
Scout doing good garden deeds as part of project
Rarely do people credit the Easter Bunny with making surprise deliveries of fresh, nutritious food.FULL STORY
Include cheat sheet with unusual veggies
Unusual items like that frequently turn up as donations to participating sites in the Giving Garden program. And that's great.FULL STORY
Budding gardeners learn a lesson about plants
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 second-grade students?
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One man's passion
Frank Peavy pondered a world without hunger over his fence line.FULL STORY
Garden volunteers ever vigilant
Some people fight with their tomatoes.
No, really.
It's often a battle just to keep them alive.
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