In 2015, the city of Chicago passed amendments to Chicago’s compost ordinance that now allows community gardens and urban farms to accept and compost food scraps and other organic waste generated off-site. What does this mean for community gardeners? Under the new...
The UA zoning ordinance was NOT on the Zoning committee meeting agenda on March 3, and we don’t yet have word when they plan to address it, but we keep asking. See More Info below. We’ll talk about all of this at the 6th Annual Chicago Food Policy Summit...
For somewhere like Chicago, as we learned earlier today, urban farming may come to represent an important and sustainable source of food that’s attractive to consumers. So make your voice heard and tell the Department of Agriculture to take urban farming...
From Tim Wilson, Director of Urban Agriculture at the Resource Center: Tell your state representatives to vote YES to SB99 by Feb. 27. “Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Redefines the term “compost” to mean compostable material that has, by...
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