Articles filed under Home & Garden
-
Produce donations help clients struggling to get byJul 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Everything the Giving Garden program stands for starts with the people served by food pantries throughout the area. It's all about the clients. Too often, those living...
-
Scout doing good garden deeds as part of projectsJul 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Rarely do people credit the Easter Bunny with making surprise deliveries of fresh, nutritious food. Chocolate and those marshmallow-y things, yes. Broccoli? Not so much....
-
Include cheat sheet with unusual veggiesJul 14, 2007 11:00 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...
-
Garden volunteers ever vigilantJul 07, 2007 11:00 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...
-
Man's passion helps grow church gardenJul 07, 2007 11:00 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...
-
Budding gardeners learn a lesson about plantsJun 19, 2007 11:00 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...
-
Recognizing gardeners who giveOct 15, 2006 11:00 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...
-
Sale of farm impacts pantry's collection effortsOct 15, 2006 11:00 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...
-
Fun and gardening goes hand in hand for studentsSep 10, 2006 11:00 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...
-
Plant what you love in a kitchen garden and don't forget to share your bountySep 03, 2006 11:00 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...