COMMUNITY SERVICE: EAT TO LIVE ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY GARDEN WORKDAY - JUNE 11, 2016
Join fellow Princeton alumni as we help the Eat to Live Englewood Garden/Farm project.
When: Saturday, June 11, 10:00 AM - 1:00 P.M.
Where: 7029 S. Princeton Avenue
Angelic Organics Learning Center welcomes your help to tend the Eat to Live (E2L) Englewood Learning Garden. This garden is the companion to an urban farm business incubator. The farm and garden learning and enterprise campus is located at 7029 S. Princeton Avenue, and is a partnership between the Englewood community, Angelic Organics Learning Center, and the City of Chicago.
Projects will include moving compost and woodchips, preparing growing beds, cutting brush and digging stumps, possibly also some planting of seeds and/or plants.
The garden will supply gardening tools, but not gloves. Please bring your own work gloves, water and be aware that there is no bathroom facility at the site. The nearest is the McDonald's at 69th and Vincennes.
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Eat to Live Englewood Community Garden
Chicago, IL
Click here to RSVP. Recommended age is 8 and up!
Important: Please note that this event involves gardening, so plan to dress appropriately. Orange and black gear encouraged!
Questions? Please contact Community Service Co-Chairs Paige Ponder '96 @ paigeponder@gmail.com, Lauren Sykora ’11 @ lsykora@alumni.princeton.edu.
Angelic Organics Learning Center builds sustainable local food and farm systems through experiential education and training programs in partnership with rural and urban people. We regenerate agriculture by building a healthy, green, fair, and culturally-expressed local food and farm economy. Established in 1999 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in partnership to Angelic Organics farm, we reach more than 5,000 people each year through our educational programs and urban growing sites in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. We envision a dynamic and enduring partnership between farmers and eaters who strive for economies, ecologies, and cultures that respect the land and honor the people who work it, know healthy food as a human right, celebrate the beauty and mysteries of life and the living earth, encourage authenticity and self-reliance and cooperation, and are sustainable over many generations.
The Learning Center’s "Eat to Live Englewood" project (E2L) builds a healthier local food system and economy in the neighborhood around Chicago’s E2L Learning Gardens & Incubator Farm. E2L’s two organic Learning Gardens grow food for neighbors and volunteers, and for the Institute of Women Today, home of the Vincennes Senior Center & Maria/Believe Shelters.
Neighbors and volunteers join staff in the Gardens to learn about plants, soil, bugs, seeds & more while growing fresh, healthy food and sharing in the harvest. The service activity (outdoors and weather dependent) involves moving compost and woodchips, preparing growing beds, cutting brush and digging stumps, possibly also some planting of seeds and/or plants.