The Eco Flamingo

05/29/2026

📣 IMPORTANT 📣

TOMORROW, Saturday, May 30th is the last day our cafe will be open! We’d love to see you if you have time to stop by in our last week of service ♥️

📣 ALSO! The General Store will be CLOSED for renovations June 1st-5th as we are making room to incorporate our most loved market products! If you need to restock on anything, please come by before the 1st!

CSA start in June and the first pickups will be on Wednesday, June 3rd as scheduled. Those will be available in the cafe space instead (just for that week) as we get our General Store ready.

Thank you all for your understanding and continued support! We look forward to seeing you June 6th in our updated space 🤩

05/27/2026

Because most of what we sell is compostable, it can be hard for us to find colorful merchandise to put in the windows. We're asking our customers to make us upcycled flowers from hard-to-dispose-of items we have lying around, or you have lying around. There is a box of colorful plastic, broken lids, and miss-made bamboo lids at the front of the store that you're welcome to use in this endeavor. We'll be accepting upcycled flowers to display in our windows after we reopen on 6/5 or 6/6. Kids are encouraged to participate. Flowers can be returned to the makers after the display comes down, if desired. Just be sure to have your name on it and give us your contact info.

05/23/2026

📣 IMPORTANT UPDATE 📣

Saturday, May 30th is the last day our cafe will be open! We’d love to see you if you have time to stop by in our last week of service ♥️

The General Store will be closed for renovations June 1st-5th as we are making room to incorporate our most loved market products! If you need to restock on anything, please come by before the 1st!

CSA start in June and the first pickups will be on Wednesday, June 3rd as scheduled. Those will be available in the cafe space instead (just for that week) as we get our General Store ready.

Thank you all for your understanding and continued support! We look forward to seeing you June 6th in our updated space 🤩

05/21/2026

TONIGHT!

Join us for an evening of conversation and community with other sustainability enthusiasts. This month we have guest speaker Adam Schwartz of Chicago’s !

The Urban Canopy is pioneering the local food cycle to create a more sustainable and equitable food system in Chicago. They are growers, distributors, composters and community members who seek to positively impact our city’s environment, people’s health, and local economy.

Free to attend, we hope you can join us!

05/11/2026

We still have lots of events lined up for May! Check out the schedule ⬇️

• Monday, May 11th - FREE Writing + Drawing Meet-up ✍️
• Tuesday, May 12th - Folk Skills Workshop: Aging Well and You (Why Fermented Foods) with 🫙only a few tickets left!
• Thursday, May 14th - Visible Mending Basics with 🪡
• Sunday, May 17th - FREE Open Mic 🎤
• Monday, May 18th - FREE Baby Clothing Swap ♻️
• Thursday, May 21st - FREE Community Social with guest speaker from 🌱
• Saturday, May 30th - Folk Skills Workshop: Topical Infusions and Salves with

RSVP and ticket info can be found on our website or link in bio!

05/07/2026

Closing at 5pm today!

We have a few events happening tonight that we need to prepare for.

If you got tickets for the Rockwell route of the Spring Wine Stroll, we’ll see you there 🤗

We also have an amazing event tonight at the making bouquets for a cause with benefiting 🌷

Normal hours resume tomorrow. See you soon, friends!

05/03/2026

“The Eco Flamingo Story” in State of Change.

We filmed this PBS documentary last summer and it’s now available to stream on YouTube (full segment linked in our bio) It will soon be streamed on WTTW!

What an incredible journey it has been so far! Thank you all for being a part of it 🌎

📍: The Eco Flamingo - Chicago, IL

🎥: / .t_productions

04/30/2026

This Friday The Eco Flamingo and the Market Cafe will be open for normal business hours.

As much as we would like to close for the general strike, and support and admire everyone who can, closing for the day would be very difficult for both our team and for us.

If you need to shop on Friday, we encourage you to only shop small, local, and use cash or Zelle. We will donate 10% of our Friday sales to the ICIRR and we encourage our shoppers to pay for purchases at any small business who accepts them with cash or Zelle. The money we save on transaction fees on Friday will also be donated to ICIRR. Eliminating transaction fees keeps money in our communities instead of big corporations.

Please show kindness to those who have to take action differently and thank you for understanding 💗

04/24/2026

01/29/2026

Taking into consideration the needs of our team’s livelihoods and the realities of running a small business, we’ve made the decision to remain open tomorrow. In solidarity with our immigrant and refugee communities, we will be donating 15% of tomorrow’s sales to the National Immigrant Justice Center.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who chooses to walk through our doors. Your support allows us to continue our mission and sustain the livelihoods of our team.

We remain committed to supporting and protecting our communities in meaningful ways.