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11:09 am
Fri September 16, 2011

Sound Bites: Urban farmers bloom where they're planted

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Credit (Courtesy Sauce Magazine/ by Greg Rannells)
Natalie Semchyshyn, Amos Harris and their young daughter, Ember, atop the family’s downtown rooftop garden.
Credit (Courtesy Sauce Magazine/ by Greg Rannells)
Ember, Amos Harris and Natalie Semchyshyn's daughter, enjoys a farm-fresh tomato from the sky-high edible paradise.
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Urban agriculture has taken root in cities everywhere, including right here in the River City.  It comes in many forms: the community garden, the backyard vegetable patch, the rooftop bee colony.  But cultivating food in town can be complicated and wrought with challenges---so what is it that’s driving some city dwellers to skip the grocery store and get their hands dirty?   Libby Franklin reports in the next of our new series Sound Bites, created in partnership with Sauce Magazine.

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Preservation / St. Louis Board of Aldermen
5:33 pm
Wed June 29, 2011

Del Taco gets hearing before St. Louis Board of Aldermen

Credit Adam Allington / St. Louis Public Radio
Del Taco, Grand Boulevard
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A taco stand shaped like a giant flying saucer was the subject of heated debate at the St. Louis City Board of Aldermen on Wednesday.

The board’s Housing, Urban Development and Zoning Committee approved a tax abatement bill which could move North Grand’s Del Taco one step closer to demolition.

The iconic gas station turned fast-food joint has become a cause célèbre among local preservationists.

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