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  • GOOD Magazine – “A Former Chicago Meatpacking Plant Becomes a Self-Sustaining Vertical Farm.” Julie Ma, 4/23/12.
  • Today’s Green Minute – “The Plant: My Beer Feeds Your Fish!” Jim Parks, 3/28/12.
  • Great Lakes Echo – “Closing the Loop: Power System Will Capture, Reuse Heat on Chicago’s South Side.” Brian Bienkowski, 3/12/12.
  • WCPT Radio, The Mike Nowak Show – “The Plant Rises Up on Chicago’s South Side.” Mike Nowak, 2/26/12.
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Magazine – “The Plant.” Evan Venie, Winter 2012.
  • Popular Science – “Building a Vertical Farm in an Old Chicago Meatpacking Plant.” Julie Beck, 1/27/12.
  • WBEZ 91.5, Eight Forty-Eight – “Realizing the potential of Chicago’s abandoned buildings.” Tony Sarabia, 1/19/12.
  • WBEZ 91.5, Changing Gears – “Converting empty buildings: a template on Chicago’s South side?” Niala Boodhoo, 11/16/11.
  • WBEZ 91.5 – “At The Plant, entrepreneurs turn waste into jobs.” Robin Amer and Shannon Heffernan, 11/7/11.
  • Think Progress’s Climate Progress Blog – “Vertical Farming at The Plant: How a Former Meat-Packing Facility Became a Successful Farm.”  Cole Mellino, 10/31/11.
  • ABC-7 News, WLS-TV – “Local man turning warehouse into vertical farm.” Hosea Sanders, 10/21/11.
  • Tasting Table – “Well Spent: The many lives of mash from bacon cure to baker’s oven.” 10/21/11.
  • Sustainable Chicago – “New Ordinance Encourages More Urban Farming.” Jon Sedey, 9/28/11.
  • Chicagoist – “Chicago’s First Vertical Farm Secures $1.5 Million in Grant Funding.” Betsy Mikel, 9/21/11.
  • Time Out Chicago’s Out & About Blog – “The Nooner: Chicago’s vertical farm wins $1.5 million state grant.” Ruth Welte, 9/15/11.
  • GE’s Ecomagination – “Vertical Farms: Is ‘The Plant’ the future of agribusiness?” Betsy Mikel, 9/11.
  • Monocle – “Best Urban Farming Projects.”  Gabriel Leigh, 8/30/11.
  • Ivanhoe Newswire – “Future of Farming – Indoors and in the City.”   8/1/11.
  • Discover Magazine – “Vertical Farming in the Windy City.” Christina Couch, 6/27/11.
  • Chicago Tribune – “Farming on Water: Stackable, Sustainable, in the City.” Melissa Harris, 4/10/11.
  • Mindful Metropolis – “The Plant: A former meatpacking plant in Chicago’s historic Union Stockyards gets a sustainability makeover.” Brian Bienkowski, 3/29/11.
  • Time Out Chicago – “Vertical farming comes to Chicago.” Ruth Welte, 2/23/11.
  • Chicago Reader – “The Four-Story Farm: John Edel of Bubbly Dynamics is bringing vertical agriculture to the south side.” Mike Sula, 8/19/10.

News About Businesses Here

And here’s articles about the folks in The Plant:

312 Aquaponics

  • Chicago Tribune – “Aquaponics farming operation takes root.” Christopher Weber, 5/25/11.
  • Medill Reports Chicago – “Aquaponics redefines ‘locally grown’ while aiming for profit.” Gabriel Silverman, 5/12/11.
  • Medill Reports Chicago – “Welcome to the factory of the future: Fish farming.” Emily Gadek and Michelle Schaefer, 2/25/11.

The Living Well Brewery, producer of Arize Kombucha

  • Tasting Table – “Liquid Culture: A new source for local kombucha.” 9/12/11.
  • Time Out Chicago – “A local brewmaster brings handcrafted kombucha to the thirsty masses.” Jessica Herman, 8/4/10.

The Haymarket Gardens

  • Metropolis Coffee’s Notes from the Undergrounds – “A Curious Garden in a Parking Lot.” 7/1/11.

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