Chicago Botanic Garden

World Environment Day Programs

 Garden Chef Series

PHOTO: Cleetus Friedman cooks up organic and local food

PHOTO: basil

Join Chef Friedman at one of our Farm Dinners. Register online for a Wednesday evening feast July 13, August 17, or September 7.

Find more information about City Provisions at their website, www.cityprovisions.com.


Cleetus Friedman of City Provisions

Fruit & Vegetable Garden
1:30 and 2:30 p.m.

Join chef Cleetus Friedman in the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden’s open-air amphitheater as our Garden Chef Series featured chef prepares recipes with local garden-fresh ingredients.

Chef Friedman is the driving force behind City Provisions Delicatessen in Chicago, which is known for its mission of offering local, sustainable, and delicious food to their Ravenswood neighborhood clientele. Friedman is the perfect chef to complement our World Environment Day lineup of presentations on sustainable and ecologically sound growing practices.

The Garden's tool man, Sam Darin, will also be on hand between presentations to show you how to sharpen your kitchen tools. We welcome you to stop by for one of this afternoon's presentation to hone your cooking skills and your cutlery!

Make sure you pick up your heirloom tomato seedling while at the Fruit & Vegetable Garden, and don't forget to round off your visit there with a tour and discussion of sustainable vegetable gardening practices with horticulturist Rick Belding.