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The Irving Park Community Food Pantry hosts the 23rd annual Hunger Walk, which benefits food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that are member agencies of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, Saturday at 9:30 AM (registration begins at 8 AM). Walkers leave from Montrose Harbor for a five-kilometer stroll along the lakefront; they’re encouraged to collect at least $50 each in donations.
Locavore was declared the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, but if you’re still not clear on how to be one, Robert Gardner, founding member of LTHForum.com (where he’s known as Vital Information), explains in Be a Locavore, Put More Local on Your Table, Saturday at 10 AM at Kendall College (900 N. North Branch). He’ll cover not only what to look for at farmers’ markets but also how to find local produce once the markets close for the winter. $2.
Our Daily Bread, a 2005 documentary by Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter about food production in a world of high-tech agriculture, screens Monday at 7 PM at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum as part of its free Labor Film Series. A discussion follows.
