Volunteers pay urban garden of Gary to "Black Friday of Earth" - Chicago Sun-Times

Aquaponics feeds the community - International Business Times» volunteers paid urban garden of Gary ' Friday black earth "-Chicago Sun-Timesposted 28 November 2011 |» By ccarlson@post-trib.com By Carole Carlson 25 November 2011 16: 03

Project physical education instructor Sandra Rodriguez, (from left) Derek Rawls of Chicago, as well as Melvin Ward of Gary trowel mulch as they have the above route of walking around the fringe of the Stewart House farm & urban orchard-gardens during 15, as well as in Massachusetts in Gary, Indiana Wednesday, November 23, 2011. | Stephanie Dowell ~ Sun-Times Media

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What: Urban farm in the House of Stewart as a fundraiser for gardens

When: 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 3

Where: Christ United Methodist Church, 201 w. Ridge Road

Donation: $10

Last update: November 26, 2011 1: 59

GARY: Small plateau of donated mulch had dotted the landscape Friday as volunteers rebuilding roads during the urban farm in the House of Stewart, as well as gardens. Workers jokingly called "Black earth". on Friday

Volunteers designed to turn the mitad-acre plant grass patch in a the area of the village covered in this ancestral site for 15, as well as Washington Street.

The area was once home to the House of John Stewart Memorial formed during 1501 settlement Massachusetts St. Sirvió as a guide to blacks who migrated to Gary during the 1920s. Established in 1924 by the Rev. Frank Delaney as well as Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, the allocation residence non-stop in 1925, as well as it was declared after John Stewart, the Wyandot Indian black companion in Northern Ohio.

The residence award is although supporters, along with the instructor of physical education plan Sandra Rodriguez, made the grassed superfluous area with fruit, as well as the later summer of vegetables. "You investigate to find out what grows in this land," said Rodriguez.

On Friday, the generalized paths of volunteers of mulch donated by county line in Hobart orchard. The Reverend Katurah w. Johnson of the Methodist Church United in Christ, which owns the property, helped with the work.

Johnson pronounced common cultivation of the process of Stewart House as well as technical with the families of displaced canned black. "When it became visible not configured it, you still to comply with the agreement of Stewart," said.

Rodriguez delivered there is a possibility of fundraising that arrive from 1 to 16 on December 3 in the Church of Christ, 201 w. Ridge Road Methodist.

Gardener Earl Ward, of Merrillville, suggest the seminar on aquaponics, the process of area tolerable grassed who grow fish such as plants. Fish such as tilapia, have risen so as only to markets internally, as well as fish waste is recycled as well as used as fertilizer healthy grassed area.