Gardening is an exercise in optimism – you plant, water, and cross your fingers that something grows. For the 16 young men living at the La Casa Norte’s Solid Ground residential facility in Chicago, that sunny perspective is nearly as foreign as finding fresh food on the dinner table. When a volunteer group from Glencoe […]
Repeat after us: This will be the year that you start an organic garden. Need an incentive other than the nice weather? How about your kids’ health? Researchers at Saint Louis University Preschool found that children eat more fruits and vegetables when the produce is homegrown. Don’t get scared off by the word organic. “Organic […]
For many of us, the organic awakening came when we read a book by Michael Pollan or saw the film “Food, Inc.” But Jeanne Pinsof Nolan of Glencoe recognized the importance of organics more than 20 years ago. In the late ’80s, Nolan walked into a health food store out-of-state and happened upon some […]
