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SUMMARY:Green Corn Festival
DESCRIPTION:The American Indian Center and Global Gardens Chicago are excited to invite you to our Green Corn Festival on Sunday\, November 2nd from 1-6pm. Events will take place at the farm at 4815 N Sacramento as well as the AIC at 3401 W Ainslie St\,. The Green Corn Festival is a historic indigenous festival to celebrate the first corn harvest\, so come and enjoy the bounty with us! The days activities will include:\n\nNative seed saving guided walk\n\nCorn husk doll making\n\nTree tours\n\nFall pollinator scavenger hunt\n\nCanning your crops workshop\n\nPumpkin smash composting station\n\nCommunity meal + story time by the fire\n\nThroughout the day\, we will have optional ticketed workshops. To purchase tickets to the workshops\, please click the ticket link below. Read below for more info on the ticketed workshops:\n\nU-pick (Every half hour from 1:00 4:00 PM)\n\nMeet one of our refugee market farmers as they guide you into their garden plots to help you pick your own fresh vegetables. Each person will get to decide which 5 vegetable bunches they would like depending on varieties available. Tickets are $30.\n\nGrab your tickets here: https://aicchicago.app.neoncrm.com/.../neonevents/events...\n\nFermentation & Canning Workshop (1:00 2:00 PM)\n\nCome learn how to can and ferment your garden fresh veggies to prepare for winter with Vargo Brother Ferments. Tickets are $15 and cover supplies and vegetables. Learn more about Vargo Brother Ferments here: https://www.vargobrotherferments.com/\n\nUkwakhwa: Our Foods with Becky and Steve Webster\n\nBecky and Steve Webster are enrolled citizens of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and founders of Ukwakhwa: Tsinu Niyukwayay^thoslu (Our food: Where we plant things)\, a ten-acre homestead dedicated to teaching traditional Haudenosaunee foodways. Through their nonprofit and YouTube channel\, they share knowledge about planting\, harvesting\, seed keeping\, and preparing traditional foods as acts of cultural reclamation and sovereignty.\n\nCorn Mush Class (2:00 3:30 PM)\n\nIn this hands-on workshop\, participants will learn the traditional process of making corn mush from pounding corn into flour using wooden corn pounders to sifting it through black ash baskets. The class will end with cooking corn mush sweetened with maple syrup for everyone to enjoy a warm taste of this traditional dish.\n\nKanastohale Class (3:30 5:00 PM)\n\nThis session invites participants to make kanastohale\, a traditional Haudenosaunee corn dish that can be prepared either savory (with beans) or sweet (with berries and maple syrup). Participants will learn shaping methods for loaves\, dumplings\, or turtle molds\, and explore traditional wrapping and cooking techniques using fresh corn leaves or dried husks.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The American Indian Center and Global Gardens Chicago are excited to invite you to our Green Corn Festival on Sunday\, November 2nd from 1-6pm. Events will take place at the farm at 4815 N Sacramento as well as the AIC at 3401 W Ainslie St\,. The Green Corn Festival is a historic indigenous festival to celebrate the first corn harvest\, so come and enjoy the bounty with us! The days activities will include:
\n\nNative seed saving guided walk
\nCorn husk doll making
\nTree tours
\nFall pollinator scavenger hunt
\nCanning your crops workshop
\nPumpkin smash composting station
\nCommunity meal + story time by the fire
\n\nThroughout the day\, we will have optional ticketed workshops. To purchase tickets to the workshops\, please click the ticket link below. Read below for more info on the ticketed workshops:
\n\nU-pick (Every half hour from 1:00 &ndash\; 4:00 PM)
\n\nMeet one of our refugee market farmers as they guide you into their garden plots to help you pick your own fresh vegetables. Each person will get to decide which 5 vegetable bunches they would like depending on varieties available. Tickets are $30.
\nGrab your tickets here: \;
https://aicchicago.app.neoncrm.com/.../neonevents/events...Fermentation &\; Canning Workshop (1:00 &ndash\;2:00 PM)
\n\nCome learn how to can and ferment your garden fresh veggies to prepare for winter with Vargo Brother Ferments. Tickets are $15 and cover supplies and vegetables. Learn more about Vargo Brother Ferments here: \;
https://www.vargobrotherferments.com/Ukwakhwa: Our Foods with Becky and Steve Webster
\nBecky and Steve Webster are enrolled citizens of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and founders of Ukwakhwa: Tsinu Niyukwayay^thoslu (Our food: Where we plant things)\, a ten-acre homestead dedicated to teaching traditional Haudenosaunee foodways. Through their nonprofit and YouTube channel\, they share knowledge about planting\, harvesting\, seed keeping\, and preparing traditional foods as acts of cultural reclamation and sovereignty.
\n\nCorn Mush Class (2:00 &ndash\; 3:30 PM)
\nIn this hands-on workshop\, participants will learn the traditional process of making corn mush &mdash\; from pounding corn into flour using wooden corn pounders to sifting it through black ash baskets. The class will end with cooking corn mush sweetened with maple syrup for everyone to enjoy a warm taste of this traditional dish.
\n\nKanastohale Class (3:30 &ndash\; 5:00 PM)
\nThis session invites participants to make kanastohale\, a traditional Haudenosaunee corn dish that can be prepared either savory (with beans) or sweet (with berries and maple syrup). Participants will learn shaping methods for loaves\, dumplings\, or turtle molds\, and explore traditional wrapping and cooking techniques using fresh corn leaves or dried husks.
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LOCATION:Global Gardens 4815 N Sacramento Avenue and American Indian Center 3401 W Ainslie Street
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