Become more aware of where your food comes from and how it was grown. Buy local/regional food. Read the labels. Bring your own bags to grocery (and other) stores.
Plan meals better. Minimize food scraps that wind up in a landfill. Use a garbage disposal. Consider “Tag-along” Evanston recycling program. Create your own compost.
What WE Are Doing to Accelerate Climate Action in Evanston
Demonstration Food Forest
The Edible Evanston Eggleston Park Food Forest demonstrates how utilizing permaculture principles to grow perennial crops can efficiently and effectively sequester carbon in soil and trees, while simultaneously feeding people.
Our Produce Sharing Program helps individual local growers get their excess fresh produce to people in need through Evanston food pantries. This effort improves resiliency by providing access to healthy food for economically vulnerable populations.
Edible Evanston teaches individuals about sustainable food growing techniques to allow more people to successfully grow their own healthy, local food. We also teach about the connection between growing food, a healthy planet, and human health.
You're Needed! Here Are Some Involvement Opportunities
Tour Our Food Forest
Watch for tours of the Food Forest in 2023 in the events list above. In the meantime, you are always welcome to visit on your own.
Take a New Gardener Class
New Gardener education classes will be rolled out throughout the year and class registration for each session will be open to all. They will be included in our above Upcoming Events list!
We have both planning and execution roles for all four of our initiatives: our demonstration food forest, produce sharing program, citywide education, and raised bed gardening.
Support our program by donating to Climate Action Evanston and earmarking your donation to support the Edible Evanston Program. And if you wish you can further earmark your donation to one of our initiatives.
