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  • Rockwell 'Rocky' Meyer shows off his harvested tomatoes to Karen Harris, and others at the garden in a courtyard at the DuPage Convalescent Center in Wheaton.

    Convalescent Center contributes fresh produce to communitySep 18, 2010 12:00 AM
    Becky Behning has been making a steady recovery since arriving 17 years ago at the DuPage Convalescent Center in Wheaton - in a coma.

     
  • Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com Megan Hill and her family have created a giving garden in the front yard of their Arlington Heights home.

    Vegetable garden front and center instead of the backyardSep 11, 2010 12:00 AM
    Doug and Meghan Hill of Arlington Heights love to garden. No, really, they love gardening. One look at their front yard, confirms it. Yes, that's right. Their front yard.

     
  • From left, Kathy Tabak, Dicie Hansen and Christina Chopra Nemeth weigh some vegetables on the Smart Farm inside Beese Park in Barrington.

    Giving Garden: Core group of volunteers tend to the gardenAug 28, 2010 12:00 AM
    Soccer moms on the sidelines of next weekend's Barrington Classic Tournament will find an unusual diversion to explore in between games: an educational garden for the Barrington area, known as the Smart Farm.

     
  • Gilberts Cub Scouts harvest vegetables from the Giving Garden to donate to the FISH food pantry in Carpentersville.

    Harvest from Cub Scouts' Giving Garden growingAug 21, 2010 12:00 AM
    Boy Scouts are known for their resourcefulness - but who knew they had green thumbs? In Gilberts, Cub Scout Troop 1047 and Boy Scout Pack 1047 are working together to tend a Giving Garden, planted solely to provide fresh produce to their local food pantry.

     
  • From left, Judy Miller, Donna Calwas, Siri Laurin and Alan Greenland

    Church volunteers drawn to growing produce for pantryAug 14, 2010 12:00 AM
    A movement by members of a Palatine church to incorporate green practices into their lives has resulted in a more concerted effort in their garden.

     
  • The "Little Prince Eggplant" grows at the Master Gardeners' Giving Garden at Village Green Park in Glen Ellyn.

    Master Gardeners get back to community gardening rootsAug 7, 2010 12:00 AM
    A bumper crop of zucchini squash came up last month in one of the community garden plots in Glen Ellyn, leaving onlookers somewhat behind the 8-ball.

     
  • Pete Wesley and Del Haagen tend the garden where Barrington United Methodist Church members grow fresh vegetables to donate to the FISH Food Pantry.

    Congregation starts garden to assist those in needJul 31, 2010 12:00 AM
    Members of Barrington United Methodist Church have supported the FISH Food Pantry in Carpentersville for years, but this summer they have ramped up their donations with fresh vegetables.

     
  • Helena Klumpp of Evanston works in the garden at Baxter in Deerfield removing old dead plants and harvesting the produce which is donated to the local food pantries in the area.

    Gardening on, off clock satisfying for Baxter employeesJul 24, 2010 12:00 AM
    As a company, Baxter International in Deerfield has defined clear goals in reducing its carbon footprint and incorporating green principles into its company policies.

     
  • Marty Lundeen puts up flags at the Itasca Garden Club's garden plots to add a patriotic touch. He and other gardeners picked tomatoes and pulled weeds at the Itasca Garden Club's plot in Itasca Thursday.

    Itasca Giving Garden having its best year yetJul 17, 2010 12:00 AM
    From the trading pit at the Board of Trade to the community garden plots in Itasca. That's how far Marty Lundeen has come since walking away from his career as a bond trader. And he couldn't be happier.

     
  • Bob Elazan, a volunteer from Loaves & Fishes, shows off some of the produce he collected, which is donated from Mayneland Farm in Naperville.

    Working farm donates three times a weekJul 10, 2010 12:00 AM
    Officials with Loaves & Fishes Community Food Pantry in Naperville know the drill: They visit nearby Mayneland Farm three times a week to pick up donations of fresh produce, and when they do, they go up to house, and ring the farm bell.

     
  • Friendship Village residents Tom Carroll and Ruby Hirakawa help with the weeding at Herbert Hoover Elementary School in Schaumburg.

    Intergenerational group works together for Giving GardenJun 26, 2010 12:00 AM
    A dream of planting a vegetable garden for Schaumburg Township's food pantry drew an unusual group of constituents to the table: Hoover Elementary School students and Friendship Village residents, both in Schaumburg.

     
  • Food distributors Judy Micklos of Chicago, left, and Melissa Hermosillo of Pingree Grove prepare bags of food at the Willow Creek Care Center Food Pantry.

    Gardeners share their bounty with those in needMay 22, 2010 12:00 AM
    Volunteers at Willow Creek Community Church's Care Center in Hoffman Estates, which houses its industrial-sized food pantry, have made a familiar observation: numbers of visits are soaring.

     
  • Meg Humphrey, garden chair of the Come Grow With Us Community Garden in Batavia, holds a cabbage plant at the ceremonial first planting at the garden on Saturday.

    Batavia community garden taking shapeApr 25, 2010 12:00 AM
    There were no honorary, gold-painted shovels at the dedication ceremony for the Batavia "Come Grow With Us" community garden Saturday morning.

     
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