Making Garden Compost
Making Garden Compost
The first step in making garden compost is selecting a site in the yard to work a compost pile. If there aren't any family pets in the yard, the pile can be made directly on the ground without a container. However, a compost bin looks neater and can be easier to manage. Compost bins can be purchased or made easily and cheaply with garden lattice.
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Compost Stink? Add Cardboard!
Compost Stink? Add Cardboard!
Compost has long been a staple of the green, treehugging lifestyle. As Josh explained in his post about seven reasons to compost (only seven?!), making compost reduces waste, cuts methane emissions, builds soil, promotes biodiversity, and gives you free, nutritious fertilizer.
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A Million Acts of Safety
A Million Acts of Safety
Each day you do things to protect yourself, your family, your coworkers and those important in your life. Here’s your chance to share these safety acts with the world. A Million Acts of Safety is about sharing YOUR stories and learning new ways to stay safe at home, at work and on the roads. Join the movement - with a million ideas - and let the world know that safety is important to you.
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Report: Chicago food desert shrinks 40 percent
Report: Chicago food desert shrinks 40 percent
On the eve of first lady Michelle Obama’s visit to a Chicago food desert neighborhood, a report out Monday shows Chicago’s food desert has shrunk by 40 percent in the past five years, but the number of adults and children still thirsting for healthy foods remains high.
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Chicago Farms and Projects
Chicago Farms and Projects
Assisting emerging Community Food Centers and urban and small farm projects in the metropolitan Chicago area. By bringing together food related activities that are typically dispersed, an urban farm as a community food center allows for an integrated approach to addressing food security, ecological, nutrition and public health issues.
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Michelle Obama Urges Mayors to Adopt Chicago’s Food-Desert Fight
Michelle Obama Urges Mayors to Adopt Chicago’s Food-Desert Fight
Michelle Obama returned to her hometown yesterday to implore mayors across the U.S. to follow the lead of Chicago, which has shrunk the size of its so-called food deserts, where families can’t easily buy healthy foods.
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Beans: Protein-Rich Superfoods
Beans: Protein-Rich Superfoods
More than just a meat substitute, beans are so nutritious that the latest dietary guidelines recommend we triple our current intake from 1 to 3 cups per week. What makes beans so good for us? Here's what the experts have to say:
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Cooking on a Budget
Cooking on a Budget
How do you give your family good quality, healthy meals each day but stick to your budget at the same time? Thanks to our wonderful members who have sent us their favourite recipes, we've amassed a great collection of meals that won't leave you rummaging through your children's piggy banks at the end of the week...and we don't mean chicken nuggets and pizza every day.
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True Nature Foods Rooftop Victory Garden
True Nature Foods Rooftop Victory Garden
Demonstrating the viability of sustainable concepts and practices in urban environments through research, education, and hands-on projects.
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GreenNet Chicago
GreenNet Chicago
GreenNet is a coalition of nonprofit organizations and public agencies committed to improving the quality, amount, use, and wide geographic distribution of sustainable, green open space in the City of Chicago.
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