Evanston Food Exchange | Setting Evanston’s Table

Setting Evanston's Table

Thanks to all our efforts, FSUAP came in 6th in the Jackie Mack Funding Award competition: https://www.facebook.com/JackieMackJSIR/.

We are being awarded $500.

Woo hoo!

We will stretch each dollar to help our youth experience another season filled with employment, entrepreneurship, organic growing, & service experiences!

Thank you again for supporting our youth to develop skills & confidence that will serve them for the rest of their lives – all while providing free fresh produce to our community.

See below for inspiring photos & heartwarming updates from our stellar 2019 season.

Thank you for your support!

Our program is absolutely a community effort, & you help make each opportunity possible for our kids!

We at Evanston Food Exchange are celebrating a successful 4th season of our partnership with Family Focus: the Foster St. Urban Agriculture Youth Program, an employment & entrepreneurship skill-building program for our brilliant Evanston youth.

A few highlights from our summer:

Our teen Camp Counselor employees collaborated with our 3rd-6th grade campers to:

Grow, prepare & enjoy healthy produce-focused meals, including:

cooking right in the garden with our very own Chef Q Ibraheem.
collaborating with Chef Q to cook a gourmet produce-focused Farm to Fork Dinner for their families & our supporters.

Practice their public speaking skills by Emceeing our Farm to Fork Dinner.

Market & sell their produce at Evanston’s Farmer’s Market.

Personally donate their produce to community members each Wednesday.

Our teen Counselors built additional key employment & entrepreneurship skills through:

Putting their entrepreneurship skills into action.

Each teen independently found a recipe that incorporated garden produce, independently baked the recipe, & collaborated to price, market, & sell their baked goods at the farmer’s market.

Learning about employment & entrepreneurship opportunities in the booming “farm to fork” industry through both:

A field trip to Uncommon Ground rooftop farm/restaurant.
An entrepreneurship workshop with successful entrepreneur Chef Q Ibraheem.

Identifying 2 key professional skills each teen wanted to build through our program, & giving/receiving weekly professional-level feedback on their progress toward building the skills they had identified. Skills built included: