Eat2Live Garden and Farmhosts
Community Harvest Dinner in Englewood
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
www.everythinggoode2l.org
Chicago - Real Men Charities, Angelic Organics Learning Center announced today the 1st Annual Community Harvest Dinner - a community dinner and public discussion to address topics of food and nutrition - on September 28, 2013, 4pm-8pm at The EAT2LIVE GARDEN (70TH & PRINCETON). All community members, growers, historians, and friends are invited to participate.
Eat2Live is a comprehensive neighborhood development project at 70th Place and Princeton Avenue, comprising a half-acre urban farm, an adjacent community and learning garden, and linked food enterprises and retail spaces. Growing out of efforts to invigorate green initiatives and improve health and food access in Englewood. The Eat2Live first Annual Harvest dinner is an interactive community event including demonstrations of freshly prepared vegetables from local growers, a film screening of Soul Food Junkies, followed by a public discussion designed to bring greater attention to the Englewood neighborhood and it’s importance in the food system in Chicago and region. This event builds on our recent efforts to engage, share, teach with families in Englewood and the surrounding areas the importance of health and food. Eat2Live’s hope is to encourage a large audience of Englewood residents and Chicagoans at-large to see the the growing interest in the local food and the connection to healthy living as a powerful vehicle through which people and neighborhoods can be transformed.
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Real Men Charities, Inc. presents Real Men Cook events as a national crusade to positively change the way the world views men in relationship to their families and the community.
Angelic Organics Learning Center is Angelic Organics Learning Center helps urban and rural people build local food systems. We offer opportunities to grow healthy food and a better quality of life, connect with farmers and the land, and learn agricultural and leadership skills.-
PRESS CONTACT:
Eat2Live Garden and Farm| 773-236-0763 | laseals@learngrowconnect.org