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The Evolved Network Wraps Podcast Season with Urban Ag Leader

  • Writer: Bob Benenson
    Bob Benenson
  • 2 days ago
  • 2 min read

Chef Sebastian White's Interview with Growing Home's Janelle St. John


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Local Food Forum writes often about Chef Sebastian White and his impactful non-profit, The Evolved Network, which provides underprivileged Chicago youths with food education, culinary training and life skills. One of its latest projects is a video/podcast series titled By Accident, Choice or Grace, which just ended its first nine-episode season.


Sebastian wrapped up Season 1 chatting with Janelle St. John of Growing Home, a non-profit urban farming operation in the Englewood neighborhood in Chicago with a long history of providing access to healthy food for local residents facing food insecurity, and providing job training and opportunity to ex-offenders and others with employment challenges.


The episode is titled The Flavor of Familiarity and the Risk of Openness. The Evolved Network's website explains:


"Janelle reflects on the meaning behind familiar flavors, the tension between honoring heritage and staying open to what’s unfamiliar, and how food can both root us in identity and invite us into growth. Drawing from her leadership at Growing Home, she shares how cultivating food and dignity often happen side by side — through structure, stability, and the simple act of tending the soil. Together, they explore what it means to nourish not only bodies, but imagination and possibility."


Click below and watch the episode:



We also recommend these previous episodes that we think are particularly on-topic for Local Food Forum readers:


Episode 2: The Invisible in Food Education with Alexandra DeSorbo Quinn of Pilot Light (Click here)

Episode 3: The Myth of the Food Desert with Selma Sims of Gardeneers (Click here)

Episode 4: The Etiquette of Care with Chef Sarah Stegner of Prairie Grass Cafe (Click here)

Episode 6: Soul Food, Community, and The Wretched with advocate Nick Davis (Click here)

Episode 8: Where Healing Grows with Letisha Steele of Green City Market (Click here)



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