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 […]
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 […]
Growing Home is so grateful to be a part of the Arnold Foundation’s Giving Library “Share to Give” project! Through their website, you can watch many videos that answer all kind of questions about what we do, where we are, and what we accomplish. Right now, if you visit our page and share it on […]
Growing Home is hiring for two positions to join our team during the 2014 growing season: one at our Wood The Chicago Tribune recently published a letter to the editor by Growing Home’s executive director Harry Rhodes. The letter demands Growing Home’s Executive Director Harry Rhodes recently got back from a trip to Cuba, which has one of the mostMost recent posts
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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 […]
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 […]
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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