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Some Key Climate Actions YOU Can Take

Buy food thoughtfully

Seasonal produce will taste better and is usually more affordable. Notice how far your food traveled to get to you- often the further the trip, the lower the quality. Diets that focus on plants have a lower climate impact than meat based diets.
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Grow your own produce

Grow a garden in your yard or on your patio. Sign up for a community garden space. Attend Edible Evanston's gardening education programming. If you have ideas you would like to learn more about, send us an email and we will see if we can offer a class on that topic.
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Share food with others

Grow an extra row in your garden to support local food pantries. Donate what you grow through Edible Evanston's Food Sharing program.
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Eat all of it! Waste not!

Food waste is a major contributor to methane caused climate change. Reducing food waste starts with what we buy. Make a meal plan, and stick to your grocery list. If food does go bad, consider Evanston's “Tag-along” compost program, composting kitchen waste in a yard cart. Alternatively, create your own compost.
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Encourage others to take similar actions

Talk about your garden with your neighbors and friends. Include your compost pile when you show a new friend your yard. Post pictures of your green activities on socials. Be excited, and others will be too!
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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.
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Produce Sharing Program

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. Click "learn more" to watch the video.
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Citywide Education Programs

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.
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Raised Bed Gardening Program

Edible Evanston wants to spread to joy of growing your own food and eating a healthy diet, and we want gardeners to be successful.
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Our Calendar

Hard To Recycle Collection Event

Gather your hard to recycle STUFF and bring it on Saturday, June 28 to our first annual Collection Event for Hard-To-Recycle Items co-sponsored by Climate Action Evanston, Rebuilding Exchange, and Reduce WasteChicago.  We will be accepting hard-to-recycle plastic and styrofoam packaging, shipping materials, books, bikes and parts, Legos, phone cases, contact lenses and cases, dental products, light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, aerosols*, latex paints*, car seats*, highchairs*, strollers*,smoke and CO2 detectors*, small propane and MAPP canisters*, and MORE. (*signifies that a fee will be charged). Note: This event will be intentionally held on the same day as the City drop-off for electronics, paper shredding, and medications at ETHS. Please visit both!

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Jun 28
Sat
9:00 am
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2:00 pm
1245 Hartrey, Evanston — Please Enter from Dempster and Proceed South

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!

Volunteer

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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.

Donate

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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.

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