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Roots & Wings CSA - 5 reasons to sign up today!

Angelic Organics Learning Center's Roots & Wings CSA is preparing for our 4th harvest season beginning June 21st! Join this Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program to get a 10-week share of fresh, organically grown produce. Youth and adult apprentices grow this produce while motivating, educating, and inspiring others to be leaders and role models in their community. Need another reason to join Roots & Wings CSA? Here are five...

Amy Randazzo of Grani’s Acres receives 2016 Beginning Farmer of the Year Award
Apr 6 2016 - 11:25pm
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Routes2Farm.org presented award at Good Food Festival & Conference, Chicago

The 12th Annual Good Food Festival & Conference brought farmers, chefs, educators, legislators, entrepreneurs, and consumers together at UIC Forum, March 24-26, 2016. It also hosted the 4th Annual Beginning Farmer of the Year award presentation on March 25. Originated by the Upper Midwest CRAFT farmer alliance, this award is now presented by Routes to Farm, a new project led by Angelic Organics Learning Center that connects both new and established farmers to farmer-vetted resources that help grow their businesses in the local and sustainable...

Farm Aid 30 - Music, Connections & Purpose
Oct 9 2015 - 2:31pm
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Our journey started early September 19. The Learning Center was one of many food & farm non-profits asked to set up shop in the “Homegrown Village” on Northerly Island. The prior week's rain made for muddy conditions, but the sun shone the entire time, as if to say...

Chicago Groundbreaking Ceremony Inspires & Unites
Oct 8 2015 - 2:13pm
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Supporters from across Chicago and Illinois joined us on September 26 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Eat-to-Live Urban Incubator Farm in Englewood. It was a beautiful night filled with tours of ...

Young Professionals' Association Eat to Live Garden Day of Service
May 14 2015 - 11:15pm
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Join the Young Professionals' Association of Angelic Organics Learning Center in the garden for a day of service.

We will start with a tour of the space, where volunteers will learn more about the history of the site, the practices utilized, and the programs offered to the community. This will be followed by the group completing garden tasks. Wear weather-appropriate clothing and bring your garden gloves (tools will be provided).

Where: Eat to Live Englewood Urban Garden and...

Chicagoans Flock to See City Critters
Mar 11 2015 - 1:08pm
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On Valentine’s Day 2015, a happy crowd gathered at the Chicago High School for Agriculture Sciences for the 3rd annual Urban Livestock Expo. Sponsored by Angelic Organics Learning Center with partners Advocates for Urban Agriculture (AUA) and the Chicagoland Chicken Enthusiasts, the Expo offered visitors intensive sessions on raising chickens, ducks, goats, rabbits, quails, honeybees, and solitary bees in their backyards.

    - Presenter Abe Lentner’s daughter Lucy showed off her ribbon-winning ducks.
    - Ryan Detwiler shared his enthusiasm for Coturnix quails (which he and husband Corey Gilson call “kitchen chickens”) while Corey greeted visitors eager...

    Learn & Share Farm Hacks at the Good Food Fest
    Mar 11 2015 - 8:53am
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    Grab your lunch and come join farmers from around the regional foodshed in an open session to share your best farm hacks: innovative techniques and tools that you've developed or discovered to save time, energy and, of course, money. From root washers to chicken feeders, discuss your best ideas and systems, and present your prickly problems to other farmers.

    Presenting the 2015 Beginning Farmer of the Year Award!
    Mar 3 2015 - 3:14pm
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    Jessica Rinks, Purple Leaf Farm, Beginning Farmer of the Year Awar

    Locally grown produce and agriculture has seen a recent surge in popularity. Consumers enjoy a fresh, sustainable, and often organic product that supports their local communities. This demand for local food has encouraged more young people to take up farming as a career. One of these farmers, Jessica Rinks of Purple Leaf Farms, will be recognized with the 3rd annual Beginning Farmer of the Year Award at the opening symposium of the Good Food Festival & Conference on Friday, March 20, 10:15 AM at Chicago’s UIC Forum.

    For the Love of Livestock: Urban Livestock Expo
    Feb 5 2015 - 11:06pm
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    Martha Boyd of Angelic Organics Learning Center and Billy Burdett of AUA

    In search of a fun and informative Valentine’s Day excursion? What says "I love ewe" better than taking your date to the Urban Livestock Expo? Angelic Organics Learning Center, Advocates for Urban Agriculture (AUA), and the Chicagoland Chicken Enthusiasts will present the 3rd Annual Urban Livestock Expo on February 14, 2015, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences (CHAS) at 3857 W. 111th Street in Chicago.

    The Expo offers new and experienced keepers of urban livestock the chance to learn about caring for a variety of animals, and to...

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