1. Bios
(Community/Commentary)

...rt Wayne Parks and Recreation Department’s Community Gardens, Diane Dickson and Angie Quinn are successful organic gardeners who produce enough food for themselves and more to share. They know how to ...

2. Lugar To Visit Fort Wayne
(Community/Commentary)

...rt Wayne Parks and Recreation Department’s Community Gardens, Diane Dickson and Angie Quinn are successful organic gardeners who produce enough food for themselves and more to share. They know how to ...

3. A Green Update
(General Information/About Us)

...sions reduction for VOCs and CO2 to be 60 percent and 20 percent, respectively, resulting in less-volatile organic carbon and carbon monoxide not being released to the environment. The City has also ...

4. Diane's Recommendations
(Community/Book Reviews)

The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control edited by Barbara Ellis and Fern Bradley Johnny’s Selected Seeds - If you’re lo

5. About Us
(General Information/About Us)

...owners doing remarkable things to save energy, people digging up their backyards to get the freshest local organic produce possible and people doing so many other great green things that it's impossib...

6. Understanding Our Place
(GLG-1/Living)

By Pamela Steinbach “We have to understand ourselves ‘in place’ — where we live — and in relationship to that around us.” Fort Wayne resident Laurie Proctor lives very near the St. Lawrence Seaway

7. Going Organic
(GLG-1/Living)

...h Photos By Linda Miller Farmer Dan Flowtow contributes to the health of our community by growing produce organically and selling it directly to a growing list of customers. Dan Flowtow knows well t...

8. Wind and Solar Energy
(GLG-1/Living)

...r it than “blissful”! The point is, be proud and push the green norms a little. Be the first to let your organic cotton briefs flap in the breeze! If you’re up against neighborhood zoning rules, you...

9. Energy To Move
(GLG-1/Living)

...’t rely on depleting sources of oil from unstable parts of the world. Get your calories from locally grown organic food, and you’ll be even more efficient. Look for a time when you can walk to do a c...

10. An Almost Good Gardener
(GLG-1/Living)

... to it than what she’d picked up as a farm kid. So she interned for two summers at Lonestar Farm, learning organic farming techniques before training to become an organic inspector. Yet, she said she ...

11. Happening in Indy
(GLG-1/Economics)

...the orientation of a house for passive solar gain, building tight and insulating right, using low volatile-organic-compound (VOC) paint, building with renewable materials, capturing rainwater and empl...

12. Welcome
('Uncategorised Content')

  We at Grassroots Green believe the energy and environmental challenges we face are enormous and that vigorous, creative and widespread action is both essential and urgent. Here’s a sam