Recent Posts Tagged With 'growing home inc.'

• What the heck is National Food Desert Awareness Month about?

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 09:00 in growing home inc., mari gallgher, national food desert awareness month

  There are no grocery stores in the food desert. When you're driving or walking past fast-food walk-up after fast-food drive-in hawking greasy burgers, chicken, fries and high fructose corn syrup (hfcs) colas, and there's not a grocery store or produc...

• Growing home with green jobs

  Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 09:00 in van jones, green jobs revolution, growing home inc., ella baker human rights center, urban organic garden

  For sixteen years, Chicago's Growing Home has been teaching homeless people to grow their own pesticide-free food. People living on the fringe grow new lives for themselves while working with the soil. They gain self-confidence and hope while they nu...