Several recent Urban Agriculture awareness projects feature Growing Home.
In June of 2011, photographer, Emily Schiffer, began a project on food security and urban agriculture on Chicago’s Southside. Her captivating photographs and project are on Time Magazine’s photo essay section this week.
An intern at Growing Home's Wood Street Urban Farm. Copyright, 2011, by Emily Schiffer.
In the summer of 2010, David Hanson, Edwin Marty, and Michael Hanson traveled across the U.S. in a vegetable-grease powered bus documenting successful urban farms. Their book, Breaking Through Concrete, goes on sale this coming January.
An image of a hoophouse interior at Growing Home's Wood Street Urban Farm. Copyright, 2010, Breaking Through Concrete.
Additionally, Carrot City, a recently published book showing that design can enable the production of food in cities, includes a section on Growing Home. It grew out of the exhibit “Carrot City,” which emerged from work done at Ryerson University in Toronto in 2009.
The interior of a hoophouse. Copyright, 2009, Carrot City.
In 2011, Cordia Pugh approached Growing Home about creating a new community garden in Englewood. In a recent Youtube slideshow Glenda Daniel of Openlands speaks about Cordia’s courageous effort and the successful first year of this garden.
Englewood Community Gardens, 2011.