How urban agriculture is taking root and transforming lives
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Ravenswood Community Services
1757 West Wilson Ave.
(at All Saint’s Episcopal Church)
Chicago
PREPARE for the new season
LEARN about safe food handling
VOLUNTEER for one shift or several
RSVP your attendance to Les@NNCenters.org,
or 773-339-5915
Neighborhood Nutrition Centers
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St.
Chicago
Join us for city-wide seed and story swap where YOU will have an opportunity to exchange seeds, find new ones to grow this spring, check out a library card from the Hull-House Seed Library, share food and agricultural stories, and discover new ways to nourish a sustainable food system.
If you have seeds that you saved from last year, bring 'em along. Have no seeds? -- Come anyway and learn about saving, sowing, and growing seeds!
All are welcome: novice gardeners, expert seed savers, youth, families, and students.
No one will leave without seeds!
St. John Lutheran Church
305 Circle Ave.
Forest Park, IL
Anyone is invited, garden novice or expert. You can either bring your own seeds to swap or you can buy-into the swap for just 50 cents a packet.
Master Gardener Debbie Kong will present a winter seed sowing demo.
DePaul Center
1 E. Jackson, Room C-100
Will be discussing the newly revised urban agriculture ordinance proposed by Mayor Emanuel and CFPAC's partnership and participation in the Community and Regional Food Systems project.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted, Chicago
Panelists include Illinois Sen. Jacqueline Collins, (21st Dist.), sponsor of the Fresh Food Financing Initiative.
Additional information and to RSVP
6- 8 p.m.
Chicago Center for Green Technology
445 N. Sacramento Blvd.
Chicago Center for Green Technology
445 N. Sacramento Blvd., Chicago
Green Tech U Workshops registration
Billions of soil organisms are actively working to recycle organic matter and make plant nutrients available to your hungry plants. The role of these valuable organisms (soil critters) will be looked at and discussed. Discover how the soil foodweb works and get a better understanding of how you can use all these miraculous creatures in your next project. Lynn Bement will show you how to deliver exactly what your landscape needs.
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Oak Park Conservatory
The Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory annual fund raising plant sale will offer a huge variety of plants for every gardener's yard.
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Music Box Theatre
A profound, alternative look into the problems and solutions of the global honeybee crisis
Watch the trailer:
Working group
at the University of Chicago
Group members will discuss
current research
and ways to get involved
For more information, visit: eaf.uchicago.edu
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Washington Park Field House
5531 S King Drive
1909 W Division St., Chicago
A small, full-service grocery store in Wicker Park, specializing in mostly unpackaged organic, local, eco-friendly foods and products for the home.
During the summer of 2010, we chronicled the growing season at Hull House Heirloom Urban Farm in Chicago. Here are the videos, featuring farmer Ryan, who runs the farm on the University of Chicago-Illinois campus.
Episode 1: April 18 — What's growing this season
Episode 2: May 18 — Noticing some growth
Episode 3: July 13 —
Height of summer growing season
