FresherTogether

09/21/2026

Join us for a Staple Crop Community Listening Session Brunch at Fresher Together Farms in Beaverville, IL!

Our goal is to help growers and farmers expand the food supply chain and strengthen local and regional food systems to ensure fairness, resilience, equity, and addressing food and nutrition security through the production of grains and staple crops.
We’ll start our day at the farm off with a community brunch and hear about your relationship to staple crops and grains.
🌾At this community listening session we hope to:
- Better understand what crops underserved producers want to grow
- Better understand the barriers that prevent them from growing, sourcing, or consuming said crops
- Gather community input on our Sauk Village Heritage Grain build
- Guide participants, organizations and regional USDA offices in future support opportunities that will continue beyond the project’s three years

Location: Beaverville Farm - exact location sent after RSVP
Date: October 4th
Time: 11am - 4pm

09/18/2026

It’s our last work day of the season! 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. RSVP link in our bio!
What to Bring:
- water bottle for hydration
- Sunscreen & bug spray
- check the weather to see if you’ll want layers and please wear close toed shoes
- a snack or two is also suggested in case you need it and we’ll bring along some goodies as well
- gloves or garden tools if you want as well but not required
- and anything else you need to take care of yourself. You can bring a chair if you would like, but it’s totally not necessary
Want to wake up on the farm? Let us know in your RSVP if you want to camp out the night before!

Date: Sunday, Sept 27th, 2026
Time: 10:30AM - 4PM
Location: Fresher Together - Beaverville, IL

09/16/2026

Please consider joining us at our next MVEG Field Day in Beaverville, IL, to learn about building out farm infrastructure in a hands-on learning format led by farmer Fresh Roberson of Fresher Together, alongside educators from Farmers Rising & the Carey Center for Agrarian Learning at McHenry County College. If you are in the process of planning out your farm’s building needs, looking for more resources on equipping your farm, want to hear others’ personal experiences with farm infrastructure, or just seeking connection with other farmers — come on out!

This event will be held rain or shine from 2:30-5 PM on Tues. Oct. 6 with optional hang-out time following the education & farm tour. BYOB to linger, chat, & network with other participants; snacks & hydration will be provided! Free to attend, though please RSVP so we can plan for the appropriate number of guests. Link in Bio!

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!