Community Listening Session and Brunch

Join us for a Staple Crop Community Listening Session Brunch at Fresher Together Farms in Beaverville, IL! Our goal is to help farmers expand the food supply chain and strengthen local and regional food systems to ensure fairness, resilience, equity, and addressing food and nutrition security through the production of grains and staple crops. This event is for everyone! Help us day dream about a better food system, enjoy brunch together, explore the farm, and take home some local grains.

At this community listening session we hope to: 

• Create a yummy fun social space on the farm to enjoy local grain and each other's company!

• Have Accessible our Browsing Library, Community Mill, Local Grain, and Resources

• Find spaces to share stories of what foods are staples to you

• Better understand what crops producers want to grow 

• Better understand the barriers that prevent them from growing, sourcing, or consuming said crops 

• Community input on our Sauk Village Heritage Grain build

• Guide participants, organizations and regional USDA offices in future support opportunities that will continue beyond the project’s three years 

Climate Workshop info coming soon!

Location: Beaverville Farm - exact location sent after RSVP

Date: October 4th

Time: 11am - 4pm 

Logistics: 

• Camping the night before! On farm camping is available if anyone would like to camp out at the farm in Beaverville the night of the 3rd!  

• Carpooling: Beaverville is about 1.5 hours out of Chicago. Carpooler’s can coordinate with this link we set up at https://groupcarpool.com/t/e95rqb

• Public Transportation: 

  • There is a shuttle from midway to Beaverville for $2, book online or pay cash on the shuttle! Let us know if you are commuting this way and we can coordinate limited pick up at 10:25am in Bourbonnais Metro Centre. If you chose this option, you will either need to coordinate a carpool back or take the metra after the event. This option is still about 40 mins from the farm.

  • A Metra line runs from Millenium to University Park. Let us know if you are taking this mode of transportation when you RSVP, we can coordinate limited amounts of pick ups and drop offs at certain times. This option is still about 50+ mins from the farm.