The Evolved Network Check-In #2

Unconditional care through a holistic and therapeutic approach that functions to build a foundation for impoverished youth through their creation of a farm to table dining experience. A means to comfort the soul through their service.

The Evolved Network seeks to unleash the passion people can have for food from growing to serving. They value creating sustainable experiences of radical hospitality through the giving and receiving of nurturance, patience, togetherness, respect, stewardship, practical skills, depth of consideration, justice, commitment and hope. They are currently working with 12-18 year olds from the South Side of Chicago through virtual after school learning opportunities. The Evolved Network is currently working towards a restaurant location that will be called Evolved Kitchen and Garden. This new facility will offer gardening and culinary training, therapeutic intervention, employment opportunities, and financial literacy courses.

The Evolved Network said, "The Evolved Network was created to honor the transformative power of brokenness into redemptive hospitality for both those offering it and for those receiving it.Knowing that the strongest tissue is healed scar tissue, and that the broken are the evolved, we believe that youthful lives left with the scratch of a shattered existence can start from such scratch and create culinary masterpieces of their ways of being in the world through the farm to table event, such that they come to see themselves as unique gifts offering unique gifts to others."

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