Plant a Row for the Hungry totals
Here's how the agencies participating locally in Plant a Row for the Hungry fared this year, and the number of pounds of produce that gardeners donated this year and in 2003.
Adverse conditions don't deter Plant a Row gardeners
Forget the best of times: Most summer vegetable gardens in the area went through the worst of times.
A day for sharing
If there's any one thing common to gardeners, it is their never-ending quest to improve.
Plant a Row for the Hungry Day
The Regenstein Fruit and Vegetable Island at the Chicago Botanic Garden will be filled with experts next Sunday to help improve your home vegetable gardens.
Gardener provides campaign with steady supply of veggies
Chubby cucumbers are the veggies du jour in George Tresnak's Elburn garden. He doesn't grow skinny ones - just big chubby ones. And they grow in abundance.
Parishioners reap the fruit of their labors
St. Isidore is the patron saint of farmers, so it's fitting that his Bloomingdale flock works the fields. Tucked behind the Catholic church bearing St. Isidore's name is a prolific vegetable garden with a gracious purpose.
Prolific Palatine gardener shares abundance
At 4,500-square-feet, Tom Anderson's Palatine garden is larger than most people's homes. And with 40 tomato plants and 25 fruit trees among his vast collection, the eventual yield is much greater than his family can eat.
With a little help, young gardeners blossom
The little beds at the Green Earth Institute in Naperville are designed to help tomorrow's gardeners blossom.
Brownies get chance to use their green thumbs
Carl Lytle historically grows a large vegetable garden. He plants and his wife, Jean, cans the results. They make quite a tag team
Garden club producing for Plant a Row
Peppers, yellow squash, green beans and zucchini are veggies with a purpose.
Plant a Row a perfect place for extra produce
A farm girl at heart, Karen Belt loathes seeing vegetables rotting on the vine. Food is too important to waste.
Vegetables full of nutritional benefits
Participating in Plant a Row for the Hungry means helping ensure someone will get a fresh, nutritious meal.It's important, then, to choose wisely in the types of garden produce donated to food pantries participating in the local campaign sponsored by the Daily Herald and Northern Illinois Food Bank
Here's crop of Plant a Row workshops
Here is a schedule of Plant a Row for the Hungry workshops at the Morton Arboretum:
Don't let a tiny garden deter you from pitching in for Plant A Row
Forget the passe gardening excuse "I've got no room."If you've got a deck, balcony, patio or even a postage-stamp-sized yard, the Morton Arboretum can help you join Plant a Row for the Hungry.
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