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Saturday, November 01, 2025
Strengthening Local Food Systems and Living Sustainably
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
North Central College Stevenson Hall 2nd Floor of Wentz
131 S Loomis St
Naperville, IL, 60540
Join Robin Greenfield, activist and forager, for an afternoon on living in harmony with the Earth and building community resilience. Learn about his year of foraging every bite of food and his mission to plant
1 million community fruit trees. Presented by The Conservation Foundation & North Central College,
this event also features additional speakers highlighting local efforts to support organic farming, food access, and sustainable living.
This event is being held at North Central College and features speakers from:
North Central College
The Conservation Foundation
City of Naperville
Illinois Food Scrap and Composting Coalition
Will County Green (Resource Recovery and Energy Division of Land Use)
Robin Greenfield
Please register at https://theconservationfoundation.org/event/strengthening-local-food-systems/
Event Schedule
1:00pm Doors open - Explore resource tables
1:30-1:35pm Welcome
1:35pm - 1:55pm Dreams of a Just Web of Life: The Resonant Visions of Kate Raworth andRobin Wall Kimmerer Presented by Dr. Shelley L. Birdsong, Professor of Religion, Department ofEnvironmental Studies at North Central College Sustainability envisions an alignment of the spheres of ecology, economy, andequity. This alignment requires a radical culture shift, catalyzed by alternativenarratives and images that move away from individualism, consumerism, andlinear thinking and toward kincentric values, reciprocity, and systems thinking.Dr. Birdsong will share holistic approaches for living sustainably in ways thatsupport all living beings.
1:55pm- 2:15pm Growing Food in Concert with Nature – Healthy Land, Healthy Food,
Healthy Communities Presented by Jennifer Hammer, Vice President of Land & Watershed Programs
at The Conservation Foundation. The Conservation Foundation operates a 60-acre certified organic farm in
Naperville, growing healthy food surrounded by wetland and prairie in concert with nature. We are building a broad community connecting people with nature and food at the McDonald Farm through programs like farm share subscriptions, a farm stand, kids summer camps, and our newest Farm to Pantry initiative
providing over 25,000 pounds of food to local pantries each year.
2:15pm- 2:35pm Living Sustainably in the City of Naperville Presented by Ben Mjolsness, Sustainability Manager at the City of Naperville City of Naperville staff will provide a brief overview of the City’s sustainability priorities and how the City engages residents through incentives, creative programming, and strategic partnership. Staff will discuss how residents can get involved and make a difference, highlighting the City’s Food Scrap Composting Program and Conservation@Home partnership with The Conservation
Foundation.
2:35pm- 2:50pm Feed People and Soils, Not Landfills Presented by Amy Bartucci, Administrator at the Illinois Food Scrap & Composting Coalition. Learn about statewide efforts that are increasing climate action strategies and strengthening communities. Healthy, resilient soils and people rely on coordinated wasted food action and collaboration. Attendees will be able to “see” themselves in food recovery and composting
and better understand how every community can help prevent wasted food and advance the diversion of all organics, at all scales, in Illinois. Sign up to take home a FREE kitchen countertop compost pail after the event.
2:50pm-3:05pm Recycling: A Simple Way to Save Resources Presented by Marta Keane, Will County Recycling/Solid Waste Coordinator atWill County GreenWillCountyGreen.com is a website created in 2010 to provide 24-hour accessto a variety of reuse, recycling, composting, energy and water conservationpractices. Recycling, one of the foundations of sustainable living, has becomevery confusing for most people due to changes over the past 20 years andmedia attention on failures in the system. Together, we can rebuild confidenceand make our efforts count.
3:05pm-3:15pm Break / Explore resource tables
3:15pm - 4:15pm Earth Provides Us with Everything We Need Presented by Robin Greenfield, Environmental Activist & Forager Robin Greenfield is foraging 100% of his food and medicine for an entire year!Is it possible to eat in harmony with Earth and live in reciprocity? Join us for aneye opening exploration of food sovereignty through the food and medicinethat is growing abundantly all around us. Now is the time to embracecommunity, grow our relationships and develop our skills!
4:15pm - 4:30pm Robin Greenfield Q&A
4:30pm-5pm Post-event Robin Greenfield book signing and explore resource tables
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