Solidarity Gardening Forever: Reflecting on Working Class Connections to the Land

A one-day conference presented in collaboration with Perennial City: Experiments in Urban Gardening (March 19 to Dec. 18), an exhibition at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum that reveals how working people — past and present — have used gardening as a tool for creativity, care and community action.

The daylong gathering of artists, growers, scholars, organizers and University of Illinois Chicago partners from UNAM-Mexico City will explore the transformation of land from industrial use to food production; the preservation of local seeds and the conservation of animal species; the documentation and transmission of agricultural and culinary knowledge; the creation of alternative food networks for distributing and sustaining local crops; and the collective organizing required to defend these systems that nourish us all.

This event is free and open to the public.