CLIMATE CHANGE and a CHICAGO PUBLIC FOOD FOREST 11Th Annual KAM Isaiah Israel MLK Food Justice & Sustainability Weekend

CLIMATE CHANGE AND A CHICAGO PUBLIC FOOD FOREST 11th Annual KAM Isaiah Israel MLK Food Justice & Sustainability Weekend

SATURDAY & SUNDAY JANUARY 18-19, 2020 at KAM Isaiah Israel 1100 E. Hyde Park Boulevard Chicago, IL 60615

PRESENTED BY THE FOOD JUSTICE & SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE OVDAERYV 1IEW | KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Program

The KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Program is, at its root, a social justice program. Access to nourishing, wholesome food, clean air and water, healthy soil — these are basic human needs and rights. Since our program’s start in 2009, we have addressed these issues through urban farming (transforming lawns into food producing micro-farms, growing fruits and vegetables, and distributing the harvests to those in need) and by educating and advocating for food and eco-justice through our annual MLK weekend and Farm and Food Forest School.

In addition to this ongoing work, we are also constructing, as a counterpoint to our row cropping, food forests and pollinator walls in heretofore underutilized and unproductive urban areas. Just as with the micro-farms, the idea is to transform unproductive spaces into productive ones. We pursue this work in order to establish ever more sustainable and secure sources of food. The first such project was installed in 2015 along Hyde Park Boulevard, just outside this building. Three others, one at a nearby elementary school and two more at KAMII, have been installed since that time.

Food justice and sustainability drives our growing, connecting that work to climate change drives our education and advocacy work. At the 2015 MLK weekend we announced that climate change would be the theme of every MLK weekend through 2021. “Climate Change and Civil Rights” was the theme that launched this effort and set forth our belief that climate change is one of the central social justice issues of the day.

“Climate Change and A Chicago Public Food Forest” brings us together this year at KAMII. Our goal for the weekend is to provide you with powerful tools for change, a heightened motivation to work toward a greener, more equitable and sustainable world, and an opportunity to see old friends and make new ones, to reinforce coalitions and partnerships, and to build new ones. Welcome.

Robert Nevel, KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Program Founder

2 11th Annual KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend PROGRAM COMPONENTS DAY 1

Growing Food for Those in Need (Owen Needham, Farm Manager) KAMII micro-farm KUCC micro-farm Reavis School micro-farm Pair of Pears micro-food forest Three Apples micro-food forest Star micro-food forest Reavis School micro-food forest

White Rock Gleaning Program

High Holy Day Fresh Food Initiative/HHDFFI (Emilie Pulver, Coordinator)

Edible Bima Program (Gloria Needlman, Coordinator)

MLK Weekend (Crystal Johnson, Coordinator)

Reavis Elementary School Environmental Educational Initiative

Farm and Food Forest School

Fruit and Nut Tree Planting Initiative (Robert Nevel, Coordinator)

PROGRAM GOALS

Provide, annually, for those in need in our community ±6,000 pounds of produce through our micro-farms and food forests, White Rock Gleaning, HHDFFI, and Edible Bima Program.

Teach urban agriculture and sustainability skills and advocate for healthy, local food systems and responsible energy, land and water use through our annual MLK Weekend, and Farm and Food Forest School.

Increase, annually, the Chicagoland urban orchard by 30-40 fruit and nut trees. kamii.org/foodjustice 3 DADYA Y1 |1 Saturday, January 18

4:00 PM | COMMUNITY DESIGN WORKSHOP: TRANSFORMING A 470 ACRE FORMER INDUSTRIAL SITE INTO A PUBLIC FOOD FOREST

SARAH COULTER Executive Director Calumet Collaborative

ANNAMARIA LEON Co-founder Homan Grown

ANDREW MARGENOT Assistant Professor of Soil Science, Crop Sciences Department University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

OWEN NEEDHAM Farm Manager KAM Isaiah Israel

JOHN TANDARICH Adjunct Professor, Physical Science and Engineering Department Wilbur Wright City College of Chicago

JEN WALLING Executive Director Illinois Environmental Council

ROBERT NEVEL (moderator) Architect and Founder KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Program

6:30 PM | RECEPTION

4 11th Annual KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend DAY 1 DAY 2 | Sunday, January 18

10:00 AM - 2:45 PM | WORKSHOPS Session 1 | 10:00 - 10:45 AM OPTION A Did the Lorax Get it Right? Chapel DORIANE MILLER, MD Director, Center for Community Health and Vitality, Urban Health Initiative, University of Chicago Medicine OPTION B A Natural Approach to Ecological Restoration Youth Lounge in Your Backyard JOHN TANDARICH Adjunct Professor, Physical Science and Engineering Department, Wilbur Wright City College of Chicago OPTION C Baking With Fruits and Nuts: Kitchen Exploring Traditional Food Preservation JP McINTYRE Personal Chef OPTION D The Cost of Food for the Small Farmer Library DAVID DURSTEWITZ Farm Lead, The Urban Canopy and JANA KINSMAN Bike-a-Bee

Session 2 | 11:00 - 11:45 AM OPTION A Saturated Media Extract Testing for Protected Library Culture and Intensively Composted Soils ZACHARY GRANT Extension Educator, Local Food Systems, and Small Farms, University of Illinois Extension

OPTION B Building Power, Building Relationships: How To Get Things Youth Lounge Done For the Planet Through Public Decision Makers JEN WALLING Executive Director, Illinois Environmental Council OPTION C Food, Mood, and Mind: Keeping Your Chapel Emotional Health On Track Through Nutrition GEETA MAKER CLARK, MD, ABIOM Integrative Family Medicine, Director, Integrative Nutrition and Advocacy, Co-Director, Culinary Medicine Project, Clinical Assistant Professor, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago

OPTION D What's In Your Soil? Classroom 13 JAMES MONTGOMERY, PhD Associate Professor Department of Environmental Science and Studies, De Paul University kamii.org/foodjustice 5 DADYA Y2 |1 Sunday, January 19

12:00 - 1:00 PM | COMPLIMENTARY LUNCH

Session 3 | 1:00 - 1:45 PM

OPTION A GMOs: What You Need To Know Chapel TERRI REARDON Outreach Coordinator, Illinois Right To Know GMO OPTION B Mapping Soil Lead Across Chicago Classroom 13 GEORGE WATSON MS Student and ANDREW MARGENOT Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

OPTION C Plant Troubleshooting Library MIKE McMAHON Floriculturalist, Chicago Park District

OPTION D Water Youth Lounge MAIKY IBERKLEID Farmer, KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Program

Session 4 | 2:00 - 2:45 PM

OPTION A Space Is The Place: Agroforestry Ideas For The Chapel Climate-Challenged Chicago of Tomorrow DAVE COULTER Horticulturalist, Osage, Inc. OPTION B Local Food: Hoop House Goes to State Classroom 13 NICOLE VIRGIL Hoop House Activist

OPTION C How Much Lead Can Vegetables Take Up From Soil? Youth Lounge Evidence-based Risk Assessment, Using Chicago Soils GEORGE WATSON MS Student and ANDREW MARGENOT Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

OPTION D Using Urban Ag as Safe Placemaking for Women, Library Children, and LGBTQIA: A "Farminist" Approach STEPHANIE DUNN Founder and Executive Director, Star Farm Chicago

6 11th Annual KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend DAY 1 2020 KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL MLK WEEKEND PRESENTERS

GEETA MAKER CLARK, MD, ABIOM | Integrative Family Medicine, Director, Integrative Nutrition and Advocacy, Co-Director, Culinary Medicine Project, Clinical Assistant Professor, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago

DAVE COULTER | Horticulturalist, Osage, Inc.

SARAH COULTER | Executive Director, Calumet Collaborative

STEPHANIE DUNN | Founder and Executive Director, Star Farm Chicago

DAVID DURSTEWITZ | Farm Lead, The Urban Canopy

ZACHARY GRANT | Extension Educator, Local Food Systems, and Small Farms, University of Illinois Extension

MAIKY IBERKLEID | Farmer, KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Program

JANA KINSMAN | Bike-a-Bee

ANNAMARIA LEON | Co-founder, Human Grown

ANDREW MARGENOT | Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

JP McINTYRE | Personal Chef

MIKE McMAHON | Director, Center for Community Health and Vitality, Urban Health Initiative, University of Chicago Medicine

DORIANE MILLER, MD | Director, Center for Community Health and Vitality, Urban Health Initiative, University of Chicago Medicine

JAMES MONTGOMERY, PhD | Associate Professor Department of Environmental Science and Studies, De Paul University

OWEN NEEDHAM | Farm Manager, KAM Isaiah Israel

ROBERT NEVEL | Architect and Founder, KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Program

TERRI REARDON | Outreach Coordinator, Illinois Right To Know GMO

JOHN TANDARICH | Adjunct Professor, Physical Science and Engineering Department, Wilbur Wright City College of Chicago

NICOLE VIRGIL | Hoop House Activist

JEN WALLING | Executive Director, Illinois Environmental Council

GEORGE WATSON | MS Student

kamii.org/foodjustice 7 KADMAYII F1 OOD JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM PARTNERS

For partnering with us on the High Holy Day Fresh Food Initiative, thank you Experimental Station, 61st Street Farmers Market, Ellis Family Farm, and The Urban Canopy.

For partnering with us on growing, distributing, and preparing the food, thank you Chicago Housing Authority, Door of Hope, Kenwood United Church of Christ, St. Martin de Porres, TRC Senior Village, Reavis Elementary School, and Good Shepherd Senior Village.

For partnering with us on our Fruit and Nut Tree Planting Initiative, thank you Gethsemane Garden Center.

For partnering with us on our growing, thank you Johnny’s Selected Seeds. Since 2011 you have been our supplier of seeds and materials.

And finally, thank you to all of our presenters and to our financial supporters. Your generosity sustains us.

8 11th Annual KAM Isaiah Israel Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend DAY 1 2020 KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL MLK WEEKEND SPONSORS

Cedars Mediterranean Kitchen Medici

Giordano's Native Foods

Healthy Soil Compost, LLC Open Produce Community Compost Program Piccolo Mondo Hel's Kitchen Pizza Capri Hyde Park Produce The Sit-Down Cafe Jolly Pumpkin Snail Thai Kimbark Beverage Shoppe Trader Joe's Leona's

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______D2A0Y2 01 KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL MLK WEEKEND PLANNING COMMITTEE

Reuben Ayres Gloria Needlman Alex Broda Robert Nevel Rebecca Callcott Donna Peace Maiky Iberkleid Maria Popovetskiy Kineret Jaffe Deb Pratt Crystal Johnson Emilie Pulver Aidan Kaplan Karen Shyne Aaron Levine Edna Weiss

DAY 1 THE PLANNING COMMITTEE THANKS

Corey Caver Bet Dolo Gina Tarullo Phillip Watson