1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 6 PM
Join us for a neighborhood potluck!
We seek to share foods grown in community gardens and yards 🌱🥬 🍅 🥗 along with other things foraged from where you find them 🫐 🍓 🍄🟫 🛒 Bring leafy greens to combine in collaborative salads, finished dishes that showcase your ingredients, or anything edible that you’d like to share the story of where it is from and why you like it 🍗 🧀 🍩 🍿
We’re planning a do-it-together tasting circle, to heighten our feasting sensibilities. Sit down, wear a blindfold if you like, have a smattering of different tastes – then help the next person in line have the same experience 👅
We’re joined in this event by Edgewater Environmental Coalition – community members and environmental stewards, rooted in Edgewater, empowering people to build and maintain a more sustainable future through action, organizing, education, and advocacy.
Edgewater Environmental Coalition is part of a team of volunteer garden leaders running the Vedgewater Community Garden at Rosemont and Broadway, a Neighborspace Garden, on land donated by Loyola University. Community gardening has been happening at this location over the past decade.
The photo above is of the community garden that existed in the lot south of 1226-1234 W Loyola Ave. This image was shared with us by Bill Talsma, prospectively dated either 2005 or 2006. This community space was displaced when Loyola University demolished the building immediately to the east, and remains a vacant lot two decades later.
*This event is a part of Go forth and set the world on fire – a project that features contributions of tenants living at 1234 W Loyola Ave and individuals who have shared their work with Loyola University as artists, activists, and teachers. This project and tenants of 1234 W Loyola Ave have received vital support from the Crossroads Fund's Critical Response Fund grant.