Featuring Robin Greenfield, Activist & Forager
Join The Conservation Foundation, North Central College, and activist and forager Robin Greenfield for “Strengthening Local Food Systems & Living Sustainably” on Saturday, Nov. 1. Presentations will take place from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in North Central College’s Stevenson Hall, second floor of the Wentz Science Center, 113 Loomis St. in Naperville.
Greenfield believes the Earth can provide us with everything we need, and is putting this love and devotion for Earth into bold action. For one year, he will be foraging every bite of his food and medicine. “Nature” will be his garden, his pantry and his pharmacy.
To bring this message to the people, he is traveling from his homeland of Northern Wisconsin, speaking in communities across the country. He will embody a relationship of reciprocity with Earth during his community visits, bringing a spotlight to the food and medicine that is growing freely and abundantly all around us, as well as enthusiastically inviting communities to join him in a grass-roots, collaborative effort to plant 1 million Community Fruit Trees over the next decade.
This event will also include a presentation by Naperville-based nonprofit The Conservation Foundation about their work creating a place where local farmers, community members, and local organizations who value responsibly grown, healthy food come together to do their part to support local farming, increase food access, connect with the land, and delight in exploring the seasonal, certified organic harvest.
After the presentations, Greenfield will be signing copies of his book, “Food Freedom.” The book will be available on a donation basis.