FresherTogether

08/26/2026

How do we move beyond restrictive wellness paradigms to build deeply accessible, nourishing food systems in Cook County? Join us virtually for a transformative 90-minute conversation bringing together nationwide leaders who are actively disrupting dominant narratives around nutrition, foodways, and what it means to be well. Grounded in cultural heritage and food sovereignty, this panel explores what it takes to feed our local communities in an accessible, liberatory way. If we are truly committed to transforming our regional food systems, we must shift how we talk about food together.

Join Fresher Together and Policy Research Collaborative on September 2nd from 6 - 7:30pm CT for Nourishing Communities: A conversation breaking down how we talk about nutrition, food access and striving towards our liberatory food futures.

Register through the link in our bio or at https://tinyurl.com/nourishpanel



Check out our panelists:

Moderator: Fresh Roberson Fresh Sharonmelissa Roberson
Dalina Soto Dalina Soto MA RD LDN | Latina Anti Diet Dietitian
Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson PA Williams-Forson
Gloria Lucas Glo V.
Denee Bex Denee Bex I MPH, RD, CDCES

This event was organized by Roosevelt University in partnership with the CCDPH (CCDPH) and supported, through ARPA award ALN 21.027 granted to Cook County by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and allocated to CCDPH.

08/25/2026

How do we move beyond restrictive wellness paradigms to build deeply accessible, nourishing food systems in Cook County? Join us virtually for a transformative 90-minute conversation bringing together nationwide leaders who are actively disrupting dominant narratives around nutrition, foodways, and what it means to be well. Grounded in cultural heritage and food sovereignty, this panel explores what it takes to feed our local communities in an accessible, liberatory way. If we are truly committed to transforming our regional food systems, we must shift how we talk about food together.

Join Fresher Together and Policy Research Collaborative on September 2nd from 6 - 7:30pm CT for Nourishing Communities: A conversation breaking down how we talk about nutrition, food access and striving towards our liberatory food futures.

Register through the link in our bio or at https://tinyurl.com/nourishpanel

Check out our panelists:

Moderator: Fresh Roberson Fresher Together
Dalina Soto Dalina Soto MA RD LDN | Latina Anti Diet Dietitian
Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson PA Williams-Forson
Gloria Lucas Glo V.
Denee Bex Denee Bex I MPH, RD, CDCES

This event was organized by Roosevelt University in partnership with the CCDPH (CCDPH) and supported, through ARPA award ALN 21.027 granted to Cook County by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and allocated to CCDPH.

07/16/2026

Our first round of 2026 BIPOC Harvest Bags are here! We’re partnering with FEOM Expressions a local retailer and health and wellness space, to offer a South Side pick up location on Tuesday July 21st and Tuesday July 28th from 12:30 - 2:30pm. 

Purchase a Harvest Bag or sponsor a Solidarity Share for a neighbor  through the link in our bio. 

Fresher Together’s BIPOC Harvest Bags are curated bags of fresh produce, value added products, honey, herbs, and more from local farmers and producers. This CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) style program creates an easy way for community members to get their grocery needs while supporting our farm and other local  Black, Indigenous, and People of Color farmers and producers.


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06/26/2026

Save the date! July 18th and 19th we’ve got a farm get away for you! Our July 19th workday falls the day after Rehoboth Blueberry Farm’s Blueberry Festival on July 18th in Pembroke. Come down on Saturday to enjoy the festival, camp out at our farm, and then join us for our Sunday workday! 🫐✨

RSVP through the link in our bio!

06/12/2026

06/03/2026

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Castanea immersions are a unique combination of playground and laboratory, spaces where leaders fine tune the balance of rigor and joy in their work. Immersions are the soft ground onto which fellows can collectively settle, take a deep breath, and find the rest needed to dream big and build boldly.

According to the Center for Creative Leadership, the most effective leaders are defined less by their individual brilliance and more by their ability to “connect, influence, adapt, and create the right conditions for others to thrive.” In other words, to lead is to build resilient communities and fashion new worlds.

Leadership already lives abundantly in the hands of our fellows. Yet under the current systems dehumanizing and destabilizing our communities, fellows are exhausted and stretched thin; distanced from their source of collective power.

Immersions are opportunities to renew and re-link. They rekindle fellows’ imagination toward what they can create together to replace a food and farm system that benefits only a wealthy few.

06/03/2026

Fresher Together is hosting a Farmer Mobility and Muscle Recovery Workshop in partnership with JAH Hall and with space support from Chicago Food Policy Action Council in person this Friday June 5th from 1-4pm. RSVP is required as space is limited. https://events.humanitix.com/farmer-mobility

Join us on Friday June 5th from 1-4pm for a mobility workshop with JAH Hall, a personal trainer and healer who will guide us through releasing pain and healing injuries.

This is an approximate 3 hours in person, hands on workshop where we will work through ways to take care of your body and support injury prevention and recovery. Please bring a yoga mat if you have one and any therapy ball or foam roller. We will have some items for people to use as well.

Everyone will leave with a free gift of a lacrosse massage ball. And all attendees will be entered to win our door prize of JAH's Freedom Kit!

What to bring:

yoga mat (we will have a very limited amount to loan out)

water bottle

comfy clothes

Optional: Money or your digital payment - There will be a Freedom Kit Giveaway that all attendees are entered in as well as additional kits available for purchase on site. At a super special workshop only price!

Optional but suggested if you have : foam roller, therapy/massage balls, we will give you a lacrosse ball to keep and will have some loaner products.

Where: must register to get the room details.

Chicago Food Policy Action Council

231 S LaSalle St, Chicago, IL 60604, USA

RSVP Required! https://events.humanitix.com/farmer-mobility

Let's take care of our bodies this season!

05/08/2026

🫛🫜Join us for our 2026 Beaverville Farm Community Work Days! Link in Bio

June 14th*, July 19th*, August 9th or September 27th*

*starred events = come camp on the farm the night before volunteering! Let us know if you plan to camp out in your RSVP.

Once you RSVP we’ll follow up with our exact Beaverville address. For planning purposes, we are 2 minutes away from Willow Slough Fish and Wildlife Area (https://maps.app.goo.gl/6VXJeeDSt9YPiwN68)

05/05/2026

Check out the new shirts!! We made some awesome progress on bed clearing and potting up this weekend. Catch y’all at our next volunteer day on June 14th ✨🌀

05/01/2026

Cover Crops and Climate! Join us for a hands-on workshop at the farm on all things Cover Crops. We’ll follow up in person after the virtual Cover Crops: Why and How? event on May 13th with an afternoon of presentations, farm tours, demo plantings, seed giveaways and more!

We’ll be joined by staff from the USDA to share resources on conservation funding that can cover crops on your farm.

will be distributing a soil health toolkit, that includes a cover crop zine, a thermal composting zine and a nutrient management guide.

This event is part of a collaboration called Deepening Relationships to Staple Crops with Fresher Together, and support of , FONDY, and MIFFS. Huge thank you to the Comer Crops Farm for hosting!

When: May 14th 2026 3:30pm - 7pm

Where: Comer Crops Farm 7200 S Ingleside Ave, Chicago IL 60619

Know before you go:

Bring a water bottle

Wear closed toed shoes/boots that can get muddy

There are bathrooms on site (while the youth center is open)

Check out the virtual event Cover Crops: Why and How? that AUA, Loyola, and The Comer Crops Farm are hosting on May 13th from 5 - 6:30pm

We’re Deepening Relationships to Staple Cropswith the support of FONDY, and MIFFS. The Staple Crop Growers Network is a project of Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, in partnership with Fresher Together, the Fondy Food Center, and Michigan Food and Farming Systems. This collaboration is supported by funding from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.