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Urban Growers Collective is a non-profit organization that builds urban farms, gardens, and provides fresh foods primarily in underprivileged areas in the West and South Side of Chicago. [2] The organization was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 2017 by Erika Allen and Laurell Sims.
BrightFarms is an American indoor farming company headquartered in Irvington, New York. [1] [2] It grows and supplies local, non-GMO, pesticide-free, and fresh salad greens to supermarkets. [1] [3] The produce is grown in computer-controlled hydroponic greenhouses. [4] [5]
SNAP is a U.S. Department of Agriculture anti-hunger program that boosts the food budget of low-income households. The Department of Human Services administers SNAP in Illinois, and participants ...
The Family Farms Preservation Act would increase the tax threshold to $6 million meaning fewer Illinois farmers would be subject to the tax Democrat, Republican lawmakers give support to ...
Doublemint gum, manufactured by the Wrigley Company since 1914 [1]. Since the 1830s, when Chicago enjoyed a brief period of importance as a local milling center for spring wheat, the city has long been a center for the conversion of raw farm products into edible goods. [2]
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The Greene County Almshouse is a historic poorhouse located in Greene County, Illinois, along a township road northeast of the city of Carrollton.The almshouse was built in 1870 in accordance with an 1839 state law which provided for each county to establish its own almshouse or poor farm for welfare recipients.
When Lu Ann Matejcak, of Homer Glen, was first approached to be on the Will County Farm Bureau Board, her first reaction was to laugh. “I’m like, I don’t think so,” Matejcak said. “I don ...