Home and Garden
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Here's crop of Plant a Row workshopsNov 18, 2021 7:40 pm - Here is a schedule of Plant a Row for the Hungry workshops at the Morton Arboretum: May 8: One Pot Gardening • Vegetables in a Pot, Mayo Underwood of Underwood Gar...
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Community plots give gardener room to growNov 18, 2021 7:26 pm - It all started with sod. That led, as it so often does, to a small home garden. Lured in by the simpler tasks surrounding his new Gurnee home, he found himself progressi...
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Weighing inNov 18, 2021 7:26 pm - We've got to hand it to you. You came through with a whopping 60,343 pounds of fresh produce during this summer's Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign. That's more than ...
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Nursery lends helping hand to Plant a Row campaignNov 18, 2021 7:24 pm - Getting back to gardening's roots means exploring a time when people worked the land they lived on and helped their neighbors through tough times. With that notion in mi...
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Daughter puts her plant training to good useNov 18, 2021 7:24 pm - Julie Schwartz didn't have much interest in working her family's vegetable garden. Just ask her mother. "Can we ever get her to help in the garden? Nooooo," Susan Schwar...
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Gardener grows into role helping the hungryNov 18, 2021 7:23 pm - What's the point of retiring if you can't do what you enjoy, Mel Zuehlke reasons. Working a full-time job never left him enough time to give gardening his undivided atte...
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Here's the lineup of speakersNov 18, 2021 7:22 pm - These are the participants in Plant a Row for the Hungry day, Aug. 3, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe: Pesche's Garden Center will display examples of conta...
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Island of plentyNov 18, 2021 7:22 pm - Few people have the luxury, or space, to maintain a small fruit orchard in their back yards these days. An apple tree here and there is more like it. Still, it would pro...
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Congregation's efforts reap harvest of plentyNov 18, 2021 7:22 pm - It's rather unusual these days to see a 1948 Ford tractor plowing a field in the heart of Mount Prospect. If you take a stroll past the South Church Community Baptist si...
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Now here's a class students really digNov 18, 2021 7:21 pm - Honors English classes rarely include gardening as a course assignment. Planting peas and squash, after all, doesn't usually further college-level analysis of literature...