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  • Students at the Hoover Math and Science Academy gathered with parents and community members last month to plant $4,000 worth of donations from Lowe’s in Schaumburg before it closed its doors.

    Hoover students put academic talents to work in garden project Sep 26, 2011 12:00 AM
    Students and faculty members will gather on Monday for the dedication of a new concept within Schaumburg schools: the Hoover Math and Science Academy. The open-enrollment school aims to offer a unique learning environment for students. And it all starts with their innovative community garden project, started more than 18 months ago as part of an intergenerational project with senior residents at Friendship Village in Schaumburg.

     
  • Gardeners at Presbyterian Church of Palatine are learning how to grow a few new crops this year, including tomatillos, which can be used in salsa verde.

    Garden ministry keeps food pantry clients stocked with produce Sep 18, 2011 12:00 AM
    For six years, church members have tended the plot exclusively for the purpose of donating fresh vegetables to clients served by the Palatine Township Food Pantry. They have averaged donating 400 pounds each summer, but this year they expect to reach 500.

     
  • DuPage County Master Gardener Pam Kowalczyk collects produce from a garden for local food pantries. Master Gardeners this year are tending a garden near the Kraft plant in Naperville.

    Kraft garden project delivers produce to food pantry Sep 10, 2011 12:00 AM
    On the west side of the Kraft plant in Naperville where a variety of Nabisco brand crackers are produced, another type of food production goes on, thanks to the tender care by Master Gardeners. Nearly a dozen members of the University of Illinois Extension Service in DuPage County have been working the garden, coming twice a week throughout the summer.

     
  • Andy Knapik, left, and his son, Joey, of Wheeling, tend to the garden at St. Alphonsus, which helps feed 150 families served by the church's food pantry each month.

    Garden ministry at St. Alphonsus helps feed 150 families Aug 21, 2011 12:00 AM
    Parish members at St. Alphonsus Liguori Church in Prospect Heights have a catchy name for one of their hands-on ministries; they call it the Garden of Eatin'.

     
  • John Katz-Mariani of Vernon Hills tends the Mitzvah garden behind the Congregation Or Shalom community temple in Vernon Hills.

    Men’s club tends Mitzvah Day gardenAug 14, 2011 12:00 AM
    If you think that backyard gardening is a woman’s pursuit, think again.At the Congregation Or Shalom in Vernon Hills, it is members of the Men’s Club who have organized a garden, and already they are seeing the fruits of their labor.

     
  • Boy Scout Alex Boyle of Naperville planted a garden to grow produce for the Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry in Naperville for his Eagle Scout project.

    Eagle Scout project will turn out tomatoes, peppers Jul 28, 2011 12:00 AM
    Earlier this year, Boy Scout Alex Boyle of Naperville turned to the Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry for ideas about a potential Eagle Scout project. Their answer surprised him. They didn’t need help sorting donations or even refurbishing their space. Instead they came up with a more hands-on project: developing a garden to grow fresh vegetables for their food pantry clients.

     
  • George LeClaire/gleclaire@dailyherald.com Volunteer Alex Fosburgh, 11, of Arlington Heights picks weeds out of the new produce garden plot, cultivated by the Arlington Heights Neighborhood Association, in Frontier Park in Arlington Heights. The produce is donated to the Wheeling Township Food Pantry.

    Community garden helps provide for food pantry Jul 15, 2011 12:00 AM
    A historic neighborhood association near downtown Arlington Heights has taken on a new project this summer: a victory garden, with the goal of raising fresh produce to contribute to the Wheeling Township Food Pantry.

     
  • Deanna Bruckner, of Schaumburg, works on a garden for the Schaumburg Community Garden Club located behind Lord of Life Lutheran Church on Thursday. The vegetables grown in this garden are donated to the Schaumburg Township food pantry. The members expect to donate at least 1,000 pounds this year.

    Community gardeners grow fresh produce for local food pantry Jul 8, 2011 12:00 AM
    Members of the Schaumburg Garden Club work a plot of nearly 4,000 square feet out behind Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Schaumburg. They have been working together to raise fresh vegetables for more than 10 years now, and they contribute all of their harvest to the Schaumburg Township Food Pantry.

     
  • Malcolm Mazan, left, and Caroline Sharpe, both 8, fill the overflow barrel from the main rain barrel as students tend to the garden at Woodland Elementary School West in Gages Lake to benefit the Giving Garden.

    Woodland second-graders plant Harvest Garden to feed hungry Jun 19, 2011 12:00 AM
    Anne Nagro of Gurnee is a certified Master gardener, but even she had her hands full this month when she oversaw the planting of the Harvest Garden at Woodland Elementary School in Gages Lake.

     

  • Giving Garden: Where to donate your harvest to help the hungry Jun 10, 2011 12:00 AM
    Each summer, the Daily Herald sponsors the Giving Garden program where suburban gardeners can donate extra fresh fruits and vegetables to more than 50 local food pantries across Cook, Lake, Kane, DuPage and McHenry counties. Here's where you can donate.

     
  • Members of Cub Scout Pack 1047 in Gilberts plant the crops that will provide more than 1,000 vegetables to families this summer through the Daily Herald's Giving Garden campaign.

    Scouts help Giving Garden campaign continue to grow Jun 3, 2011 12:00 AM
    Every Cub Scout promises to “help other people” and for members of Pack 1047 in Gilberts, that means vegetable gardening.

     
  • Fresh vegetable donations help clients who can't otherwise afford produce at the grocery store.

    Giving Garden produce boxes overflow with fresh vegetablesSep 25, 2010 12:00 AM
    Vegetable gardening may be winding down this summer, but fresh produce continues to pour into area food pantries from those participating in the Daily Herald Giving Garden campaign.

     
  • 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.

     
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