Wishes granted: Making your summer dreams a reality
So, this was it. This was going to be the summer you finally made bold moves out back, where you do your outdoor living. You were going to carve out...
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Shabbat set links ceremony, artistry
If, as the great Jewish thinker Abraham Joshua Heschel teaches, Shabbat, or the Sabbath, is a cathedral of time, a window of holiness at week's end, then this museum-quality cast-bronze...
No pond? No problem. How to make your own water fountain
Maybe it was a rushing waterfall you had constructed in your head. Something to give Niagara a run for its money. Or maybe something soothing was more to your liking....
1 farm may diverge from a favorite poet’s family
For sale: Pedigreed-poetic, organic plot of 400-acre Shelby County farm. Includes two roads diverged in woods. Road less taken, still available. Could this be a farm with roots to the...
Nature never did betray the hand that moved her flowers
It is my annual affliction. Perhaps you suffer too. And, no, I don't mean what I call "the strawberry rash," the swath of fine pink bumps that covers me in...
Google goats? No kidding
Memo to Mayor Daley: Get goats. Never mind the noisy mowing crews that scalp the slopes of Lake Shore Drive and give Grant Park its weekly shaves. In Northern California,...
Welcome to The Comfort Zone
Sandra Soss doesn't wake up to the jangle of an alarm clock these days. "One of the luxuries of unemployment," she calls the not-so-rude awakening that, lately, stirs her from...
Vegetable gardening: Taking the mystery (and fear) out of first-time growing
Zig-zagging her cart past the wall of compost manure, around the few brave pots empty and shivering out in the late winter sunlight, Andrea Versenyi arrived, at last, at the...
Get started on a veggie garden
Zig-zagging her cart past the wall of compost manure, around the few brave pots empty and shivering out in the late winter sunlight, Andrea Versenyi arrived, at last, at the...
Learn more
Want to get started vegetable gardening but feel you need to know more? Here's where to turn. Web sites *"Watch Your Garden Grow" (urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies): The basics of vegetable gardening, from...