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Community Incubator Kitchen at Greater St. John Bible Church is Complete!
Faith in Place Green Team site, Greater St. John Bible Church in the Austin neighborhood in Chicago has completed the construction of...
Aug 23, 2023
Faith in Place Distributes $175K to 25 Houses of Worship and Faith-based Non-profits!
Faith in Place is proud to announce it has distributed 25 grants, funded through the Chicago Region Food System Fund, to Houses of...
Apr 15, 2022
Reimagining Our Sustainable Food & Land Use Programs
After ten incredible seasons hosting indoor Winter Farmers Markets around Chicagoland, we have made the difficult decision to end the...
Aug 5, 2020
They Paved Paradise and We Created a Garden Lot
Faith in Place connected a historic Baptist church on Chicago's West Side with a congregation on the Near North Side to create an...
Jan 14, 2020
It’s Our TENTH Winter Farmers Market Season! Hooray!
2019 is special not only because we are celebrating 20 years of Faith in Place, but also because we’re marking our tenth anniversary of...
Nov 4, 2019
Farewell to Another WFM Season Rooted Throughout Chicagoland!
Despite the occasional spring shower turning into a snowy flurry, we at Faith in Place know that winter is truly behind us now that the...
Apr 30, 2019
Expanding Local and Healthy Foods through Community Incubator Kitchen Project
Has your faith community ever considered allowing local residents to use the kitchen to run small-scale food businesses, such as baking...
Mar 15, 2019
Black History Month Winter Farmers Market
February 3rd was an exciting day to kick off Black History Month with special events at Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church,...
Mar 7, 2018
Four Houses of Worship Collaborating for Black History Month Celebration & Winter Farmers Market
Press Release - January 23, 2018 Four congregations in the East Garfield Park and North Lawndale neighborhoods are organizing a Black...
Jan 23, 2018
St. Mark's Episcopal Church: Community Voices for Sustainable Change
The process of building a community's regard for values of sustainability and Earth Care begins with a voice of advocacy for those...
Sep 5, 2017
A Groundbreaking Garden
More than 40 giant fabric bins filled with soil are the home of a unique new garden at Wesley United Methodist Church (UMC) in Urbana....
Jun 2, 2017
Meet Cyndy Ash of Jubilee Farms
Farmer Cyndy Ash greeted me as I turned off the road near Clinton, at the base of a gentle hill, "Welcome to Jubilee Farms!" I parked the...
Jun 7, 2016
Food for Thought: Workshops at Food Justice & Sustainability Weekend
This week we welcome a guest blog post from Marcia Z. Nelson, who is studying for her Masters of Divinity degree from the Earlham School...
Jan 26, 2016
