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The Edible Gardens

The Edible Gardens

The Organic Gardener’s flagship project—open to the public and welcoming more than 25,000 visitors annually—is The Edible Gardens, planted and maintained by Green City Market in the Lincoln Park Zoo’s Farm-in-the-Zoo presented by John Deere.

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Report: Chicago food desert shrinks 40 percent

Report: Chicago food desert shrinks 40 percent

On the eve of first lady Michelle Obama’s visit to a Chicago food desert neighborhood, a report out Monday shows Chicago’s food desert has shrunk by 40 percent in the past five years, but the number of adults and children still thirsting for healthy foods remains high.

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Chicago Farms and Projects

Chicago Farms and Projects

Assisting emerging Community Food Centers and urban and small farm projects in the metropolitan Chicago area. By bringing together food related activities that are typically dispersed, an urban farm as a community food center allows for an integrated approach to addressing food security, ecological, nutrition and public health issues.

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Michelle Obama Urges Mayors to Adopt Chicago’s Food-Desert Fight

Michelle Obama Urges Mayors to Adopt Chicago’s Food-Desert Fight

Michelle Obama returned to her hometown yesterday to implore mayors across the U.S. to follow the lead of Chicago, which has shrunk the size of its so-called food deserts, where families can’t easily buy healthy foods.

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Michelle Obama Plays It Safe with 'Let's Move!' Campaign

Michelle Obama Plays It Safe with 'Let's Move!' Campaign

Michelle Obama was in Chicago Tuesday to promote her “Let’s Move!” campaign for healthy eating and exercise. Rahm Emanuel played host to the First Lady in her visit to a South Side Walgreens that now stocks fresh produce and grocery staples—and then at Growing Power’s Iron Street Urban Farm.

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Executive Director’s Message

First and foremost I want to say thank you to everyone that has helped to make this a reality, from the Directors and Board Members to all those that have pitched in to help lend a hand. I have rarely been a part of something so fulfilling or been involved with such an amazing group of people.

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Here you will find a listing of informative resources about all the things Greenfeast.org cares about, and is interested in.  There are articles about food, policy, health, administration, activism, gardening, cooking, and much much more!

A Call to Arms

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Register with us and we will send you our monthly newsletter, keeping you up to date on all the new happenings here at Greenfeast.

One of the biggest ways to help fight hunger and offer other forms of relief is to raise as much money as possible for the fight. Our main fundraising engine is to partner with individuals and organizations that can help us conduct candy sale fundraising drives.

If you or your organization are interesting in conducting a candy sale or having a food or clothing drive, please go to our fundraising tab and send us a note, we would love to work with you in a way that may fits your availability. We will send you all the candy and materials necessary at no cost to you organization, all we ask is your help in selling the candy to raise the money.

On that note, we’d like to express our thanks to the many Masonic Lodges throughout the state of Illinois that we have been in contact with who have expressed a great interest in helping us out on this front, we greatly appreciate their willingness to step forth and lend a hand by engaging in candy sale fundraising drives to benefit our organization at large.

True Nature Foods Rooftop Victory Garden

True Nature Foods Rooftop Victory Garden

Demonstrating the viability of sustainable concepts and practices in urban environments through research, education, and hands-on projects.

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GreenNet Chicago

GreenNet Chicago

GreenNet is a coalition of nonprofit organizations and public agencies committed to improving the quality, amount, use, and wide geographic distribution of sustainable, green open space in the City of Chicago.

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