Urban Farm Marks One Year on Howard Street
The Talking Farm, an Evanston-based nonprofit, celebrates the one-year anniversary of a land use agreement with the Skokie Park District for a site at 3701 Howard St. in Skokie.
Standing on two acres of cleared land off busy Howard Street, Linda Kruhmin envisions a line of hazelnut trees; beds of heirloom tomatoes, peppers and eggplants; an orchard of dwarf fruit trees; and maybe even a rice paddy. That vision is the hard-won future of this land, where Kruhmin is the operations manager for The Talking Farm, an Evanston-based nonprofit. The group’s fledgling urban produce farm marks its first full year this June at 3701 Howard St. in Skokie, where a plot of pastoral activity is now taking shape among gas stations, auto body shops and rental storage facilities, just behind the Skokie Tot Learning Center. From the time members of the nonprofit began discussing the idea of an urban farm as part of the Evanston Food …
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Jennifer Fisher
10:04 pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Folks, I just got an update from the Talking Farm saying the Birthday Bash is cancelled. "Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are not able to hold our Birthday Bash on June 16th, but we will still have our Work Day planned. Help build and plant display beds in our demonstration garden." more ›