More Than Flowers
How community gardens build community and fight food insecurity Fact checked by Shannon Sparks Behind nondescript county buildings in Wheaton, a “secret garden” blooms. The garden — a quality-of-lifeprogram for residents of the DuPage Care Center — is more than a place to gather. It highlights how gardens can offer therapy and provide healthy food. […]
Food as Medicine
Chicago groups find creative ways to provide fresh food and build healthy communities On an unseasonably warm December morning, volunteers and staff from Advocate Aurora Health pull open cardboard boxes teeming with cauliflower, peppers, apples, greens, and string beans. The boxes are stacked in the Bethany Lutheran Evangelical Church parking lot in Chicago’s Calumet Heights […]