Mayor Emanuel visits Growing Home

We were honored to welcome Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to our Wood Street Urban Farm! He came out to see the great work we’re doing in Englewood, meet our staff and interns, and to check out the site for our new hoophouse, which will be bringing even more local produce and job training opportunities to […]
GH Wins Outstanding Community Strategy of the Year Award

It is with great pleasure that we would like to announce that we have been named the winner of the 2013 Chicago Community Trust Outstanding Community Strategy of the Year Award! This respected honor, part of the 19th Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards, recognizes the past success and future potential of Growing Home’s innovative job […]
Thoughts from Director Harry Rhodes

Growing Home is honored to be selected as the winner of the 2013 Chicago Community Trust Outstanding Community Strategy of the Year Award. We would like to thank the Chicago Community Trust, LISC, and all the supporters of the Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards for this tremendous recognition of our work. Our community strategy focuses on […]
GH Director Wins Prestigious CCT Fellowship

Growing Home’s Executive Director Harry Rhodes was selected as a 2013 Chicago Community Trust Leadership Fellow! The award recognizes his contribution as an outstanding leader in the Chicago nonprofit sector and will allow him to pursue some great professional development opportunities. Thank you to the CCT for supporting this excellent program recognizing and cultivating individuals making an impact […]
Why I’m proud to be a Growing Home Graduate

“Mere words are inadequate in trying to articulate my boundless gratitude for such a phenomenal program.” Last summer, Allencia graduated from Growing Home’s job training program. Since graduation, she has expanded her interest in horticulture and organic farming, and because of her talent and passion, Growing Home was able to hire her on […]
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About Us

Growing Home is the leading social enterprise focused on empowering people and communities with Chicago’s first USDA-Certified Organic, high-production urban farms. With farms in the Englewood and Back of the Yards neighborhoods, as well as the 10-acre Les Brown Memorial Farm in Marseilles, Illinois, Growing Home seeks to operate, promote, and demonstrate the use of organic […]

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Growing Home Wood Street Farm July 31, 2009

Without our supporters, we couldn’t grow thousands of pounds of organic produce, provide job training to 40 people each year, or achieve a 93% job placement rate like we did in Cohort 2 of 2013! Thank you for being part of our mission to change lives through organic agriculture. People like you make it possible […]

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Our 10th Anniversary

See how we’ve grown through our ten years of service.

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                    Spring Field Day at our Marseilles farm

                                        
                        
                                    
                                        
                                    
                        

                                                                
  If you’ve never ventured out to our farm in Marseilles, IL – the Les Brown Memorial Farm – now 
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                    Growing Home Kickstarter selected to Seed Chicago!

                                        
                        
                                    
                                        
                                    
                        

                                                                
Great news! Growing Home’s Kickstarter project – Harvesting Hope – has been selected to Seed Chicago, the city’s new curated 
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                    Wood Street Season Kick-off Open House Celebration

                                        
                        
                                    
                                        
                                    
                        

                                                                
Growing Home’s Wood Street Urban Farm presents its: Season Kick-off Open House Celebration Wednesday, April 24th from 1pm – 4pm 
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Our Focus

Job Training

Since 2002, Growing Home has cultivated the ground in service of its primary social mission: a job training and transitional employment program for individuals motivated to reenter the workforce. Interns in the program receive a fair wage while learning transferrable job skills in Landscaping/Horticulture, Food Service, or Customer Service tracks. Fieldwork is supplemented by classroom […]

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Community Development

Growing Home is using the momentum and economic potential of local, sustainable, organic agriculture as a catalyst for community change. The Englewood and Back of the Yards neighborhoods are greener, healthier, and have greater access to fresh food and food programming as a direct result of Growing Home’s urban farms. What’s more, through partnerships with similarly minded community groups […]

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Organic Farming

Growing Home is proud to be part of the paradigm shift currently taking place in the way we produce, consume, and think about food. All four of Growing Home’s farms are USDA-Certified Organic and we make every effort to use environmentally sustainable practices at all levels. Growing Home believes that organic agriculture and local food […]

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