First off, why is this happening? Thoughts on La Nina, active solar storm season, and global warming all come to one’s mind. With solar storms …
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O’Hare Aeroponic Towers
I’ll be traveling in February and hope to see this at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, located between terminals 2 and 3. Food grown in the …
New Zones
This past week, the USDA announced a new map that lets you find your zone specific to your zip code. I’ve thought Chicago was all …
Friendly De-icing
With winter comes ice, a dangerous situation for pleasant pedestrians on your walkways. All de-icers, even the “green ones,” have a salt in them. The …
The Great Lakes
Living in the Midwest, we are blessed with the Great Lakes. A huge resource, that sometimes, we forget is here. Yesterday, on WBEZ’s 848 , …
Crazy Chicago Winter
It’s warm today, a high of 52 degrees…and it’s January 6th. My garden is confused. I’ve got daffodils shooting up, English Primrose with flowers budding, …
Catalogs
We just got snow last night and what perfect timing…all the seed catalogs seem to be coming my way with every winter day. I thought …