Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Create an eco-print with fall leaves and make your own plant press around an outdoor fire.
Help restore our natural habitat and hone your plant ID skills. Supplies and refreshments provided. Ages 13 & up.
Build your own walking stick using buckthorn, an invasive species. Ages 12 & up.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Features a screening of two short films: "Street Food: New Orleans" and "Can Food Be Political?"
All Ages!
For people who live, work, volunteer, go to school, or worship in the Austin community on the West Side of Chicago.
Wear your favorite hoodie! This will be an outdoor event, weather permitting.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for dinner bites from three local Austin chefs, cider, s’mores, garden tours, and tabling activities by community organizations focused on health, food, culinary arts and small business resources.
Join Reduce Waste Chicago for our fourth annual Sustainability Market! Discover eco-focused local small businesses, artists and organizations dedicated to helping us all live more sustainably. Drop off items for reuse, repurposing and recycling with five collection organizations. Connect with and create community in a shared mission to reduce waste in our homes and our communities. See you there!
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Winning films will premiere interspersed by short chats with the filmmakers who share the stories behind their work. Adam Joel of Aggressively Compassionate will host.
Doors open 9:30 a.m. for check-in/registration
Program begins promptly at 10 a.m. Central Daylight Time
Program ends 11:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time
Free popcorn
Free beverage
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Enjoy our FREE “creative-reuse carnival” with games made from repurposed materials! Win prizes, learn about local plants and animals and more.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Hosted at Swallow Cliff Woods Pavilion, learn how to make your paper with recycled materials. Supplies provided.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Our market connects residents with local farmers offering fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other farm staples. This market takes place EVERY Thursday Rain or Shine from June 12th - October 30th 1-6 PM.
Hosted by Oak Park Public Library:
Wish you knew more about how to keep your bike operating smoothly between bike shop checkups? Bring your bike to this drop-by family friendly event in celebration of National Bike Month to learn more about the ABCs of basic bike maintenance. Volunteers from Working Bikes will be on hand to show you how to do basic upkeep of your air, brakes and chain. Keep an eye out for cameo appearances from other friendly local bikes and organizations.
Hosted by Oak Park Public Library:
In celebration of World Migratory Bird Day, drop by the Idea Box for tours of the exhibit CROSSING PATHS: Migrating Birds and You, led by Oak Park Elementary School District 97 students in the Brooks Environmental Action Team (BEAT).
Learn more about their process and about the human-made obstacles birds face as well as inspiration for actions people can take to help them on their journeys.
Join this junky jamboree to celebrate MOTHERS of all kinds: Mommas of humans, Mother of our Earth, and all the mother-junking artisans who transform materials into one-of-a-kind wonders.
There is no other market that offers a "Participatory Production" experience! What does that mean? Not only can you shop for upcycled home goods, art, planters, fashion, body care, and oddball stuff, you can also drop off household supplies to the artisans for their future creative projects. Plus, other hands-on activities.
Hosted by Oak Park Public Library:
Did you know that Chicago is a major flyway for over 200 species of migratory birds that fly from Central and South America to breed in the northern United States and Canada every year? This exhibit in the Main Library Idea Box celebrates the incredible migration paths these birds travel.
And, because bird populations have plunged due to habitat loss and human actions, this exhibit also spreads awareness of how we can protect these birds as they fly through our community in spring and fall.
Hosted by Oak Park Public Library:
It's Earth Day! Celebrate by making something new from something old by repurposing recyclables. We'll provide a variety of art materials and recylables and we'll have ideas to help you get started!
For ages 4-11. Young children require adult supervision.
Do you enjoy crafting and giving back to the community? If so, please join us in this upcycled bird making workshop that will help contribute to raising awareness about bird collision deaths.
The birds made will be part of the Idea Box exhibit Crossing Paths: Migrating Birds and You, created by the Brooks Earth Action Team (BEAT) led by Laura Stamp. After their stay in the Idea Box (May 1-12), the birds will be mailed to artist Holly Greenberg to become part of her project to make 10,836 birds.
Hosted By EcoShip:
Join us on Saturday, March 29th between 10am-3pm as we welcome Earth Month. We'll be hosting a neighborhood clean-up and 8 sustainable organizations and businesses based in Chicago who will be sharing their missions. Enjoy complimentary light bites and N/A beverages throughout the event and enter for a chance to win some goodies!
Join Tina Muir for a pre-race plogging event at 12 p.m. CT on Saturday, March 22 in Grant park after The Mile at the Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle. Plogging is a combination of the Swedish term plocka upp (to pick up) and the English word jog. Individuals who join us for the 3K/1.86-mile run/walk will learn more about plogging and how we can pair our passion for running and walking with environmental stewardship to enhance our communities. As we look for more ways to take care of the planet and the people on it, this is an easy and fun way to do our part.
Hosted by Oak Park Conservatory: Children and their caregivers will be delighted with stories, lessons, and hands-on crafts led by our Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory education volunteers. (Ages 18 months-5 yrs)
Register Here: https://app.amilia.com/store/en/park-district-of-oak-park/shop/programs/101251?subCategoryIds=5299733
Hosted by Oak Park Conservatory: This event takes place on the first Wednesday of every month. Enjoy a bilingual (English and Spanish) story time, plus songs and finger play led by our Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory volunteers. (Ages 18 months-5 yrs)
Register Here: https://app.amilia.com/store/en/park-district-of-oak-park/shop/activities/5330701
From Forest Preserves Cook County: Learn about creative reuse methods and mending techniques. Give items a second life by turning them into an ornament, decoration or bird feeder. Supplies provided or bring your own.
