Forty young students from the Harte Elementary School in Hyde Park, Chicago learned about growing vegetables in urban spaces with no access to tillable earth. What a great way for them to celebrate Earth Day.
They are now on their way to discovering the many benefits of sub-irrigated planters through their hands-on experience with EarthBoxes.
It is appropriate that their learning session was on the entrance steps to the Chicago Museum of Science & Technology.
Some of these youngsters will perhaps be some of our future urban greenscapers. It will require some education but it will be a green job career worth pursuing.
Note that a generic name "earth box" is used for the brand name EarthBox. This is an interesting comment about availability.
Earth boxes can be purchased at most garden centers. You fill them up, plant your crop, and life is suddenly greener.
I don't know about Chicago but in New York if you shop garden centers looking for "earth boxes" you are not likely to find them. You will probably get a lot of quizzical looks instead. Most retailers are clueless as to what they are.
I don't know of any retail outlet where you can buy an EarthBox here in the Big Apple. The majority of them are purchased online from EarthBox.com, Amazon.com and HSN.com (Home Shopping Network).
These photos were captured from the ABCTV Chicago news video.
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