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Roots & Wings CSA - 5 reasons to sign up today!

Angelic Organics Learning Center's Roots & Wings CSA is preparing for our 4th harvest season beginning June 21st! Join this Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program to get a 10-week share of fresh, organically grown produce. Youth and adult apprentices grow this produce while motivating, educating, and inspiring others to be leaders and role models in their community. Need another reason to join Roots & Wings CSA? Here are five...

Celebrating Good Food Advocates
May 16 2017 - 10:02pm
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By Jessie Crow Mermel

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The work of growing food for others offers many challenges, but rarely garnishes much in the way of recognition and acknowledgement. However, the work of two women farmers was celebrated at the recent Good Food Advocate Celebration on April 28, 2017. Andrea Hazzard, farmer and proprieter of Hazzard Free Farm and Ketura St. Fleurose, Roots & Wings Youth Leader, environmental activist, and high school student, were honored as the 2017 Good Food Advocates by Angelic Organics Learning Center. The award recognized the two women for their work in supporting the mission...

Roots & Wings builds hoophouses on Blackhawk Courts - and celebrates with Harvest Fest!
Oct 3 2016 - 4:03pm
Kathleen Bolin
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Hoophouse Build Roots & Wings Blackhawk Buddy House

Good things are growing in Rockford! Our Roots & Wings program now has hoophouses for year-round growing on Blackhawk Courts Farm & Garden. Check out our (national!) publicity and watch the video of the plastic going up! We also have photos from the Harvest Fest celebrating the new hoophouses!

Sometimes It’s Not Just About the Vegetables: The Tale of the Cat on the Stoop
Aug 18 2016 - 8:10am
Kathleen Bolin
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Rounding the corner from the garden I heard what everyone else knew. A scream. A wail. Mourning that accompanies the death of a loved one. The foreign sound came from a cat on the stoop of an apartment near the Buddy House, our meeting place at Blackhawk Courts...

Yatte Moore - Meet the man, the role model, the good food advocate
Mar 16 2016 - 12:58am
Kathleen Bolin
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Hi I’m Yatte Moore!
I’m the Farm Manager for the Roots & Wings Farm and Garden in Blackhawk Courts, Rockford IL. I've been farming for three years and I have learned how to properly grow organic vegetables, as well as the importance of healthy eating and...

February 26 is national CSA sign-up day - get yours today!
Feb 19 2016 - 7:44pm
Kathleen Bolin
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Eat healthy, support Rockford youth by joining Roots & Wings CSA!

The Roots & Wings Network of Angelic Organics Learning Center is pleased to join other farms from around the country for National CSA Sign-Up Day on Friday, February 26th. The day encourages food consumers to buy a share of their local farm’s harvest for the 2016 season, a buying model known as Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA.

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Chicago Groundbreaking Ceremony Inspires & Unites
Oct 8 2015 - 2:13pm
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Supporters from across Chicago and Illinois joined us on September 26 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Eat-to-Live Urban Incubator Farm in Englewood. It was a beautiful night filled with tours of ...

Young Professionals' Association Eat to Live Garden Day of Service
May 14 2015 - 11:15pm
Jessie Crow Mermel
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Join the Young Professionals' Association of Angelic Organics Learning Center in the garden for a day of service.

We will start with a tour of the space, where volunteers will learn more about the history of the site, the practices utilized, and the programs offered to the community. This will be followed by the group completing garden tasks. Wear weather-appropriate clothing and bring your garden gloves (tools will be provided).

Where: Eat to Live Englewood Urban Garden and...

Growing Pollinator Pastures
Apr 15 2015 - 2:48pm
Jessie Crow Mermel
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Creeping Charlie and henbit are two kinds of “ground ivy” in the mint family, with bad reputations for taking over lawns and gardens with their spreading stems. BUT they are also some of the earliest food sources for spring pollinators and beneficial insect predators looking for nectar. AND when you sit quietly and look closely, their flowers are delicate and gorgeous miniature trumpets, offering welcome color before most other plants have started to green up from winter.

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