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Thursday, April 16, 2009

  Le Mars Daily Sentinel

Expert to introduce aronia berry crop to area
Aronia berries and high tunnel gardening are the wave of the future in Iowa, one expert says.

Dr. Eldon Everhart, horticulture specialist with Iowa State University (ISU), will lead an educational program on those topics Saturday, April 25.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

  Yes! Magazine

Growing Power in an Urban Food Desert
At the northern outskirts of Milwaukee, in a neighborhood of boxy post-WWII homes near the sprawling Park Lawn housing project, stand 14 greenhouses arrayed on two acres of land. This is Growing Power, the only land within the Milwaukee city limits zoned as farmland.

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