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Earlier this month, the Cook County Land Bank Authority awarded Elaine Bell-Quinn the deed to the land at 4738 W. Monroe St., which is next to her family’s longtime home at 4742 W. Monroe St. They’ll grow raspberries, strawberries, onions, peppers, asparagus, thyme, elderberries, gooseberries, turnips, beets, collards, kale, tomatoes and corn, helping to nourish their neighbors with fresh produce.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Wishing her good luck. My guess is people will steal the produce from her.
Gardening is not easy. I tried organic gardening for the first time last year, and my broccoli and brussel sprouts were destroyed by aphids, my cucumbers and squash caught the powder mildew, my tomato plants died after not being watered for two days, beetles decimated my blackberries, ants ate most of my herbs, borers destroyed my pumpkin stems, and slugs ate all my chard and lettuce leaves. The only decent crop I had were super hot peppers. So I have about 100 dried out hot peppers in my pantry but I only use maybe one or two a year.