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Your are invited: WBEZ: “Eating with Understanding and Gratitude: Rethinking our Relationship to Food”
“Eating with Understanding and Gratitude: Rethinking our Relationship to Food” Poet and essayist Wendell Berry strongly believes “small-scale farming is essential to healthy local economies, and that strong local economies are essential to the survival of the species and the well-being of the planet.” So what can we as city people do to address the…
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Seed Swap: 24 March 2013, Sunday 2-4
In case you hadn’t already heard, FPCG is hosting a seed swap in Forest Park this Sunday 2-4PM. Admission is free as long as people reserve themselves a ticket online prior to the event using eventbrite. We’ll also have a gardening workshop and a book swap! For more details see the eventbrite site here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5694504416 .…
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water! water! Root-Riot Madison cistern filled!
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You Root-Riot folks are amazing! GREAT effort these past several weeks at the garden. The place looks great for spring! Happy Growing
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Second 2012 Getting Started Meeting: When: Thursday, April 26, 7:00PM
Host: Root Riot Urban Network Location: Village Hall, Room 101123 Madison StOak Park, IL 60302 US When: Thursday, April 26, 7:00PM Root-Riot Regulars.Welcome! Welcome! You are invited to the second group meeting of the Root-Riot Regulars. We have two meetings set-up at Oak Park Village Hall… we will use…
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Root-Riot Starting for Spring of 2012
All, Clearly by the number of emails and phone call that have come in over the last week or so, we are itching to get going in the Root-Riot gardens! We are tracking down a large meeting room, for one meeting this month, and one meeting next month. Very similar to what we did last…
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Composting. Please help us.
The single most conversational issue in the garden at Root-Riot Madison has been the Compost bins. If you have been to the Root-Riot Madison Garden you know that big green tumbler is our well loved “bin”. While we have this entirely welcoming and engaging group of people contributing to composting by adding material, it seems like the…
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Root-Riot: Madison Street: June 2011
Root-Riot Urban Garden Network Madison Street 2011 Growing Season is Growing, Growing, Growing June, 2011 Things have really taken off this year! For “Charter” members, they will remember that by this time last year most of us only had their plants in the ground for a few weeks and we were wondering if they were…
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FamilyFarmed.org
There is lots of good information here! Conferences, learning sessions, etc. I get it as an email. You can sign up and get the email updates. (I just copied and pasted the email so if the links don’t work, here is a link to their FamilyFarmed web site.)–Amy Financing Farm To Fork: Funding Sustainable…
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Movie showing: Queen of the Sun: What are the bees telling us?
Just heard about this. I may try to go… If you are interested let me know. –Amy “Queen of the Sun: What are the bees telling us?” is playing at 8:00 pm on Friday, January 28th at The Gene Siskel Film Center. Queen of the Sun is a profound, alternative look at the global honeybee…
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