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Chicago Green Festival
11:00am - 6:00pm

Chicago Green Festival is a 2-day event: May 17 from 10am-8pm and May 18 from 11am-6pm.

 

Celebrating what’s working in our communities, Chicago Green Festival showcases more than 350 diverse local and national green businesses displaying and selling eco-friendly, fair trade, and sustainable products. More than 150 visionary speakers appear for standing-room-only panel discussions, presentations, and main stage speaking events.

 



You’ll also enjoy great how-to workshops, green films, a fair trade pavilion, yoga and movement classes, kids’ zone, delicious organic beer, wine and cuisine, and live music.

 



Stop by Angelic Organics Learning Center’s booth #330 to learn more about our work to build a healthy local food system and purchase our farm goods including handcrafted Just Milk Soap, local honey, and Farmer John’s Cookbook.

 

For more info or advance registration, visit www.greenfestival.org.

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Chicago Food Policy Ad...
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Join the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council for their quarterly meeting. Everyone is welcome.

 

The meeting agenda includes a "listening session" for the Illinois Local and Organic Food and Farm Task Force. Give your input about how to build a healthy local food system and increase local and organic food production in Illinois!

  

LOCAL AGRICULTURE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
"Chicago Listening Session"
Hosted by the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council, FamilyFarmed.org, Chicago Department of Planning and Development and DePaul University- this will take the place of the spring quarterly meeting for CFPAC.

 

For more info, visit www.chicagofoodpolicy.org. To RSVP, contact Lynn Peemoller at lynn@chicagofoodpolicy.org,

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Walking Tour of Angeli...
10:00am - 12:00pm
Join us for a tour and introduction to Angelic Organics, the Biodynamic vegetable farm in northern Illinois featured in the award-winning documentary film The Real Dirt on Farmer John. We will explore what makes this a Biodynamic and community supported agriculture (CSA) farm. Learn basic strategies for growing food without chemical inputs and see the seasonal work underway at the farm. Wear sturdy shoes (conditions may be muddy!) and clothes appropriate for the weather.
Kids with Cob
1:00pm - 4:00pm

Come cooperate with others to construct a mini eco-village while learning natural building techniques. Use your hands to build model homes using a mixture of clay, sand and straw, called “cob”, then use your imagination to create stories about people in the community. Children must be accompanied by adult. Ages 4 and up.

 

Price listed below is per family member.

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