BLUU Havens Chicago Oct Gathering: October 16, 2021
BLUU HAVENS CHICAGO OCTOBER GATHERING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16TH 1:00-2:30 on Zoom
NEW: Join at 12:30 for Socializing or Just Hanging Out & Listening to Music!
We welcome you to join us for our October Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism Havens Chicago Gathering.
Our guests will be Clarence Smith, Founder of One Family Farms and Windy City Harvest Apprenticeship Alum (class of’20) alongside Kate Gannon, Windy City Harvest Youth Farm Manager, will be presenting a question and answer session.
Windy City Harvest Apprenticeship, a Chicagoland-based program, enrolls students in a nine-month classroom and hands-on certification course in sustainable urban agriculture that is accredited by the Illinois Community College Board for 31 continuing education credits.
At our last gathering we met Jim Embry, a Sacred Earth Activist, who spoke about the theory and practice of sustainable living while cultivating collaborative efforts at the local level with a focus on food systems.
Next we will hear how a local non-profit, Windy City Harvest, collaborates with individuals, wholesalers, institutions, and churches to: help feed people in the city of Chicago, produce fresh produce, help green the city, create social ties and jobs, and enhance the value of empty spaces particularly in black and brown neighborhoods.
As you will hear from the triumphant story of Clarence Smith, developing a sustainable urban food system movement is not without its challenges. His work and story is about redemption from his past and economic and racial liberation from systemic oppression, all on the road toward creating a beloved community.
If you’d like to learn more about Windy City Harvest Apprenticeship (WCHA), see below:
https://www.chicagobotanic.org/urbanagriculture/apprenticeship
We look forward to seeing you there, Alice, Curtis, Betty, Shannon, and Lecretia.
This will be a Black Only Sacred Space.
To request a zoom link please email: BLUUHavenChicago@gmail.com