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FACT SHEET THE URBAN AGRICULTURE SOS GREEN MOVEMENT PAVILION

Friday Sept 2- Monday Sept. 5; TIME: 10:00 AM 9 pm A Pavilion within the African Festival of the Arts Washington Park- at 51street between King Dr, & Cottage Grove SPONSOR: Real Men Charities Organizers: Yvette Moyo-Gullard and Jeanette Foreman Contact: 773 846-8797 o 404 290-2175 c jfc1220@gmail.com PLANNERS: Respected Chicago Urban Agriculture Industry Professionals DATE: PLACE: BACKGROUND Urban Agriculture in Chicago, the production and consumption of locally grown food, is gaining ground as a movement to address public health disparities in Black, Brown and lower income neighborhoods .It also is providing underserved urban residents with new opportunities for green jobs, job training and the development of food based self employment in entrepreneurial businesses. It is enriching the k thru 12 curriculums and expanding youths skill sets, interests and career opportunities. Local Colleges and local governments are becoming important partners in expanding opportunities for residents across age, income, and life challenged profiles. Finally, Urban agriculture has important community cohesion and violence prevention benefits. Learning in the field also includes how environmental and energy issues can be applies to the same uses. GREEN SOS PAVILON Theme-

"USING THE URBAN AG. MOVEMENT TO SAVE OURSELVES (SOS)

The Green Urban Agriculture SOS Pavilion will educate, entertain and enable visitors to learn practical information that will enable them to take charge of themselves and work with others to resolve some of the serious issues of health, unemployment, poor education and youth motivation, neighborhood blight and violence in many of their communities. They will see gardens, meet farmers, find out about nearby school and church gardens from whom they can learn and collaborate and come away with action plans, connections and resources to start their gardens, raise, eat or sell their own food or food products, start a food or green businesses or find related jobs in this growing industry. Best of all, they will come away with a sense of hope and ideas for how to work with neighbors and others to create a better community. 3. Features The Pavilion will feature community and school based gardens, urban and rural nature centers for family learning, local small and large scale organic farms, youth involvement in green education, programs and careers building opportunities, job training from beekeeping , farming and honey making, self employment like vending and mobile food trucks, interactive story telling about cooking healthy, cooking soulfully with organic food, using herbs and food for health, the healing power of gardens, raising fish, gardening indoors and out in the off season, developing a business plan and finding funds to start your food business.

At the URBAN AG SOS GREEN Pavilion you will learn:

how eating fresh food can be used to restore your health, addressing diabetes, high blood pressure, colds, obesity and many other maladies. where food and "green" jobs and job training are for everyone regardless of age, education or life challenges; how to create your own local jobs- in your own food entrepreneurial business how school based gardens, environmental education, and curriculums can positively transform our broken Chicago area-neighborhood and charter schools; how community based gardens /urban ag. can connect and change neighborhoods into places of stability, safety, well being and true community; about the connection between gardening and mental, spiritual health.

At the URBAN AG SOS GREEN PAVILION you will see and meet:

self employed business people and learn how you can start and run your own business Chicago children and teen who have learned to grown and cook food, love it and prosper from it retirees, church groups, block clubs, teachers, large and small farmers who are doing it now, right in your neighborhoods local resources to get you started and keep you going all year long: Chicago experts who will break down what you can do, how, why and when. video clips and hear first hand about how to raise fish, bees or chickens in the city for fun and profit- and meet some of the chickens. Many amazing south side and west side gardens, farms, inner city Nature Center

4. Important Presenters include: La Donna Redmond- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy- on why our communities should get involved with food sustainabilityFresh Moves- Mobile Vegetable and Fruit Sales in Black food desert neighborhoods Naomi Davis, Blacks in Green- Building Green Walk-able "Villages" using history, asset mapping and collective self empowerment to restore and thrive neighborhoods Growing Home- Job Training and Fresh Food Growing in Englewood Carolyn Thomas, God's Gang- Youth Urban Ag. Learning, growing, cooking and canning organic produce and raising chickens North Lawndale Employment Network Bee-keeping and harvesting honey job training for ex-offenders ; production and sales of products made from honey Glenn Ford- Praxis Marketplace- Establish Locally owned small groceries supported by the neighborhood SBDC- and ACCION Where micro loans are for starting small businesses Beth Minkel Institute for Justice Learn the benefits and barriers to food vending business and using certified food kitchen to cook and sell. food products Chef KoKo- Learn the healing qualities of herbs and foods Orin Williams- Center for Urban Technology. learning about many non-food related jobs and businesses in the Green Movement Black and Brown people can reach for.