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Your are invited: WBEZ: “Eating with Understanding and Gratitude: Rethinking our Relationship to Food”
“Eating with Understanding and Gratitude: Rethinking our Relationship to Food” Poet and essayist Wendell Berry strongly believes “small-scale farming is essential to healthy local economies, and that strong local economies are essential to the survival of the species and the well-being of the planet.” So what can we as city people do to address the…
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Harambee Goats featured on WBEZ
Carolyn Ioder was recently covered by WBEZ in a story about her backyard farm and inspiring vision for urban agriculture. Also featured in the story was Urban Chicken Jennifer Murtoff. You can read the extensive story on the WBEZ website. Congratulations to Carolyn, Jennifer and the wider Root-Riot community for helping to inspire this wonderful story.
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Garden Clean up and Pizza!!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone, Just a quick reminder that we are going to be doing garden clean ups at each of the three Root Riot Gardens followed by Pizza at Leona’s in Oak Park. This is a great way to get over your guilt or justify more over eating 😉 Noon- Clean up Root-Riot: Kuumba Tre…
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Goats in the City
Get a firsthand experience of the famous Harambee Goats. One of the earliest domesticated animals, goats have been providing for human beings for thousands of years. Join us for a chance to participate in a unique project that is exploring the role goats can play in both vacant lots and your own back yard. You…
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What’s on Your Plate?
A screening of the film “What’s on Your Plate” will be shown at the Austin Town Hall Auditorium, 5610 W. Lake St., Chicago, at 12pm on June 18th, 2011. Here’s a link to the trailer, http://www.whatsonyourplateproject.org/about/watch. This event is open to anyone, but is especially a great opportunity for parents and their children. It is…
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Beekeeping in Oak Park
Oak Parkers: Come to the aid of honeybees, and help your garden grow, too. For decades, Oak Park has had a ban on beekeeping–it’s considered a nuisance under village code. But that may change. Oak Park’s Village Board of Trustees will soon begin to consider amending the ordinance prohibiting beekeeping. As a gardener, you likely…
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The Hosta Happening; A Heifer Foundation Event
The Hosta Happening Rich’s Foxwillow Pines 11618 McConnell Rd., Woodstock, IL 60098 815-338-7442 or coniflora@aol.com Saturday, June 11, 2011 9:00 am to 4:00 pm The Hosta Happening has hundreds of varieties of hostas for sale to benefit Heifer Foundation. All hostas one gallon or smaller are $5.00! Heifer International (HI) is a non-profit, humanitarian organization dedicated…
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Health Check-up on Lake Michigan
Health Check-up on Lake Michigan Are Asian Carp in Lake Michigan? Will Alberta Tar Sands Refining impact the Lake? Come Hear the Head of Lake Michigan EPA speak at Oak Park Main Library May 4 at 7pm Judy Beck has managed the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Lake Michigan Team since October 1995. In this…
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GREEN COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Announcing a new web site to facilitate sharing of ideas, information and resources for building a more resilient and sustainable community! Green Community Connections is a new “electronic gathering place” for Oak Park, River Forest and surrounding communities, which is dedicated to helping us make the transition to a more environmentally sustainable way of living. Green…
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Green + Growing Fair, Sat April 30th
GreenNet’s 19th Annual GREEN & GROWING URBAN GARDENING FAIR, Saturday, April 30, 2011, 10am-2pm. A free event at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park, Chicago, IL, www.garfielld-conservatory.org. Root Riot Harambee Open House, Sunday, May 1, 2011, (1pm-4pm); an opportunity for people to visit, sign up, and early bird planting.
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