From Oak Park Public Library:

The documentary The Biggest Little Farm will be the feature for the theme of Earth. (92 minutes) (2019)

Filmmaker and novice farmer John Chester chronicles the eight-year quest he and Molly Chester went on when they traded city living for 200 acres of barren farmland in the foothills of Ventura County and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature in this heartwarming film. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chester's unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.

Register: https://oakpark.librarycalendar.com/event/february-films-earth-love-four-elements-earth-biggest-little-farm-63026

For One Earth members only; become a member here.

We welcome June and Angie Provost of Provost Farm, featured in, among other things, the Pulitzer Prize winning "The 1619 Project," developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones and writers from The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. Provost Farm was founded as an agricultural and activist hub to preserve the ancestral legacies of South Louisiana's Black and Indigenous sugarcane farmers.

We'll have an engaging online discussion with Angie and June around the themes of food justice, regenerative agriculture, and food heritage.

Thanks so much for your support for the One Earth Film Festival. If you know anyone who would be interested in attending, encourage them to become a member here!

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-justice-harvest-celebration-with-june-and-angie-provost-virtual-tickets-428785437787

From One Earth Film Fest:

Raj Patel and Zak Piper/2021/74 min/Climate Change, Environmental & Social Justice, Sustainable Food-Agriculture

FILM DESCRIPTION: Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to America, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill to help Americans free themselves from a logic that is destroying the Earth.

Tickets available to U.S. viewers only.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ants-the-grasshopper-watch-party-tickets-254533686107

Post-film discussion with Facilitator:

• Susan Lucci, Soulful Facilitator and Purpose Guide; Co-Founder, Global Purpose Guides and FeelReal

Panelists:

• Akilah Martin, Soil Scientist and Consultant, AM Rootbuilders and Chicago Grows Food

• Nateo Chelem Carreno, Cicero Community Farm

From One Earth Film Fest:

In accordance with CDC guidelines for congregate settings, a well-fitting mask is required at this event.

Raj Patel and Zak Piper/2021/74 min/Climate Change, Environmental & Social Justice, Sustainable Food-Agriculture

FILM DESCRIPTION: Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to America, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill to help Americans free themselves from a logic that is destroying the Earth.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ants-the-grasshopper-chicago-public-library-austin-branch-tickets-269045912567

Post-film discussion with Facilitator:

• Susan Lucci, Soulful Facilitator and Purpose Guide; Co-Founder, Global Purpose Guides and FeelReal

Panelists:

• Akilah Martin, Soil Scientist and Consultant, AM Rootbuilders and Chicago Grows Food

• Nateo Chelem Carreno, Cicero Community Farm

Ines Sommer/2019/83 min/Sustainable Food & Agriculture, Climate Change

FILM DESCRIPTION: For a quarter-century, Henry Brockman has worked alongside nature to grow delicious organic vegetables on his idyllic Midwestern farm. But farming takes a toll on his aging body and Henry dreams of scaling back. While his former apprentices run the farm, Henry spends a “fallow year” with his wife Hiroko in Japan. But things don’t turn out as planned, and Henry must grapple with the future of farming in a changing climate on personal, generational, and global levels.

Key Program Participant:

• Discussion Facilitator: Karen Kitto, Educator & Facilitator

Resource Panelists:

• Ines Sommer, Director-"Seasons of Change on Henry's Farm" (Filmmaker/Panelist, Action Partner)

• Additional Action Partners: FamilyFarmed (Bob Benenson), The Urban Canopy (Alex Poltorak)

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

From PlanIt Green:

Join PlanItGreen for this exciting webinar on local food resiliency featuring Star Farm, the Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign and the Illinois Harvest of the Month Farm to School Program. There will be opportunities to connect to each of these initiatives as a consumer, an advocate or as an investor.

About Our Speakers

Stephanie Dunn, Executive Director

Star Farm Chicago is a women-led non-profit urban farm and landscaping company with 4 years of CSA service, backyard garden builds, and farm dinners. Rooted in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, Star Farm works to build food sovereignty and opportunity for women, children, and adults and youth with disabilities through vocational training and horticultural therapy, while supporting local schools and food pantries to grow their own food.

Molly Gleason, Communications Director

The Illinois Stewardship Alliance is a statewide non-profit organization that brings together farmers and eaters across Illinois to solve problems in the food system. Through community organizing, we work with farmers across the state to create and champion farmer-led policy solutions, and we work with eaters to use their purchasing power and political power to support farmers and drive policy change. In 2019, the Alliance brought together a coalition of food and farm organizations across the state to launch Buy Fresh Buy Local Illinois, a statewide promotional program to support local food. The Buy Fresh Buy Local Illinois program aims to grow the local food economy by making it easy for shoppers to find and support local farms and the businesses that carry their products.

Diane Chapeta, Farm to School Program Manager

Seven Generations Ahead (SGA) is a statewide non-profit dedicated to its mission of being a catalyst for sustainable and healthy communities. Illinois Harvest of the Month – one of two SGA farm to school programs - helps school districts, feeding sites, and early care centers source and celebrate seasonal, local food. Each month, registered participants highlight a different local item on their cafeteria menus or in their school gardens. Illinois Harvest of the Month brings more money to local farmers, healthier food to the cafeteria, and educational opportunities for students about healthy eating.

Please RSVP to Lisa at admin@sevengenerationsahead.org

Please join this meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/213406901

You can also dial in using your phone.

United States: +1 (872) 240-3212

Access Code: 213-406-901

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.

Each winter, from November through April, Faith in Place partners with faith communities throughout Chicagoland to host a series of indoor farmers' markets on Saturdays and Sundays. The farmers' markets provide an additional source of income for local vendors during the off-season, promote sustainable farming methods and economic justice for regional farm families, encourage healthy, wholesome eating, and support the building of relationships between producers and consumers.