organic produce

Veggie Heaven

August 14, 2009
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We are overloaded with vegetables from our Organic Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) Vegetable Share. That doesn’t even include all the lettuce. While I love belonging to our CSA, Angelic Organics — one, because it encourages one to eat vegetables that are in season, and two, it also tends to push one beyond their usual comfort zone [...]

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Box of Rain*

July 10, 2008
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Earlier this spring we decided to try CSA: Community Supported Agriculture. We’re now in our fourth week of Veggie Nirvana. Every Wednesday we receive 3/4 bushel of organic produce from the farm we support. As a shareholder we received a cookbook, The Real Dirt on Vegetables by the farmer/owner of Angelic Organics, John Peterson. Besides [...]

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Local Harvest

April 18, 2008

We usually plant a few tomatoes in our yard, but we won’t be planting any vegetables at all this summer for a couple reasons: one, I’d rather concentrate the overall garden design this year and see where a small vegetable patch will fit in with it; and two, I just don’t feel like dealing with [...]

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Dining in Prairie Style

April 9, 2008
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One of my favorite fancy places to dine in Chicago is North Pond Cafe, nestled in the heart of Lincoln Park, and like the name, situated on the North Pond. It was built in 1912 as a warming hut for ice skaters, eventually becoming a storage shed for the Chicago Park District. It was remodeled [...]

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