CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - Sep 25, 2012) - A year and two days after the City of Chicago amended zoning codes to allow local urban agriculture, the city of Chicago has moved to the forefront of urban ...
On Chicago’s far South Side, tucked into a postindustrial strip of Cottage Grove Avenue that hugs the Metra tracks, Sweet Water Foundation is farming fish in a former shoe warehouse. The story of ...
Amid the worst economy in decades, Andrew Fernitz, 23, thinks he can raise fish and organic produce for a living. While his classmates are searching for jobs at employment fairs and scrambling for ...
An old meatpacking warehouse in Chicago is being turned into an urban aquaponics farm. Called “The Plant,” the facility is already operating as a fish hatchery, hydroponic garden, commercial kitchen ...
In Chicago, where hungry mouths outnumber plots of soil, urban agriculture has boomed in recent years and extends across more than 230 community gardens and 60 urban farms. Still, not all eco-friendly ...
(CBS) – In Chicago and around the country, communities are trying to improve their look and get rid of blight while developing urban-farming techniques. Now, Chicago schools are learning how to grow ...
Chicago State University has completed a new aquaponics system. CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago State University has completed a new aquaponics system. Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture — or fish ...
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - Sep 25, 2012) - A year and two days after the City of Chicago amended zoning codes to allow local urban agriculture, the city of Chicago has moved to the forefront of urban ...