Urban farming is on the rise, and within this growing movement, Black farmers are playing a crucial role in revitalizing communities, improving food access, and promoting sustainability. One essential ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Bucket by bucket, Andrew Meland is helping make a difference in Chicago through composting. "If you asked me three years ago if I would be driving around in a car with 500,000 miles ...

Introducing the compact Vego Kitchen Composter, designed for efficient, odor-free composting in urban spaces. The Vego Kitchen Composter is revolutionizing how urban gardeners manage waste, providing ...

While death is not typically a part of life that many people consider beneficial, one crowdfunding project might have the potential to change that perception, and perhaps completely alter how society ...

Once a week, Alex Poltorak roams the alleyways of Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood hunting for white buckets stashed here and there crammed with banana peels, avocado shells, bits of onions and ...

If Katrina Spade gets her way, using decomposed corpses as fertilizer will be as common a practice as traditional burial and cremation. Spade is the founder of the Urban Death Project, an organization ...

Farmers Dan Heryer and Brooke Salvaggio wear matching gray rubber boots. They both have the hardy, outdoorsy look of people who eat a lot of organic vegetables—unsurprising, as they make a living ...