SATURDAY, August 20 @ 9:00am – 11:00am Hermitage Site Volunteer Day Help claim a section of yard for additional garden area Weed and trim yard sections surrounding the NNC Garden Interested? E-mail Les@NNCenters.org for directions SUNDAY/MONDAY, August 21 & 22 First harvest collection and distribution Stay tuned for details THURSDAY, August 25 @ 6:30pm Building [...]

SAVE THE DATE To Benefit Neighborhood Nutrition Centers Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:30pm Red Lion, Lincoln Square

Executive Director Les Kniskern will be speaking on “Building a Local Food System” at the Greater Rockwell Organization Tuesday, August 2, 2011 7:30pm Luther Memorial Church, 2500 West Wilson Ave (at Campbell) BRING your own knowledge to share about gardening DISCOVER NNC’s One Square Foot program and how to become involved LEARN about COLE CROPS [...]

On a hot, hot July day in Chicago eighteen local residents and interested parties joined Executive Director, Les Kniskern, in discussing Building a Local Food System. The event was held at Beans & Bagels on Rockwell (at Leland) with generous support by Adam Snow. The hour-long event covered topics as: What is a Local Food [...]

There will be a community informational meeting on the One Square Foot program and building a local food system on Thursday, July 21 @ 6:30pm. For more information, view your invitation here: You Are Invited

Lovely notice on facebook for organic herbs supplied by Neighborhood Nutrition Centers to the local Red Lion: To follow the thread, click here.

We give up meat, he thought, contemplating the future of the world. We give up meat. He’d been reading a book entitled “Veganist” by Kathy Freston, and what caught his eye, what prodded him to sit down and write was the following discussion with Michael, MD, on Factory Farming and Superbugs in her book: “KF: [...]

Click on our link to receive your invitation to the GARDEN TEA OPEN HOUSE Sunday, May 15, 2011 Lincoln Square Community Garden 4811 N Western drop by between 11:00am-2:00pm click here: One Square Foot flyer- GARDEN TEA

Had the wonderful opportunity to man a table for Advocates for Urban Agriculture http://auachicago.org/ at the Garfield Park Conservatory http://www.garfield-conservatory.org/ for two hours today. Conversations ranged from what is AUA, to how do I start a garden, to my church group wants to grow food, to what happens if…? Everybody had a map, and at [...]