A Food Security Look at Northeast IL

A Food Security Look at Northeast IL

This past week the New York Times featured a story on buying shares of local farms, highlighting Erewon farm and mentioning Angelic Organics right here…

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Responses to Crisis

Responses to Crisis

Hoarding by several nations is a major cause of the current food shortage (and no doubt increased prices), a recent NYT article shows. The article…

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Theater in the Garden

Theater in the Garden

This month I’ve been in two exceptional garden-performance settings, both of which have blown me away . Yesterday, at Ginko Community Garden, located a couple…

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Yes, We Have no Bananas

Yes, We Have no Bananas

Summertime is here.My mom served seedless watermelon, orange honeydew melon, and some gorgeous large strawberries for dessert last night. Yummy. The fruit was delicious. It…

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A not-very sophisticated poem

A not-very sophisticated poem

Lamb’s Quarters by Eve Bratman I know a secret about you. You’re not such a scourge after all. Scorned by others as a weed It’s…

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Vertical Farming...not as crazy as I first thought?

Vertical Farming…not as crazy as I first thought?

For my urban politics class, Amy F.’s final speech surprised me. She talked about vertical farming as the wave of the future, and how we…

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Chicago's Green Fest

Chicago’s Green Fest

Last weekend I was back home. In a city that purports, according to our mayor, to become the nation’s “greenest” city. Indeed, Chicago has done…

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Fertilizers and the Food Crisis

Fertilizers and the Food Crisis

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good map like this one must be worth at least 10,000. Fertilizer prices are up by…

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%$*! Restaurants, I'm Foraging

%$*! Restaurants, I’m Foraging

Yep, you heard me, Foraging. Restaurants be damned; foraging is really where food security takes on some interesting dimensions, especially in urban contexts. Michael MacDonald…

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Favorite Restaurants, part 2:Consuming African Food Without Consuming Africa

Favorite Restaurants, part 2:Consuming African Food Without Consuming Africa

The market demand for a certain menu that exotifies African food have largely come about in the past 10-15 years; namely, since Apartheid fell and…

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