The Growing Home Farm is located at 5814 S. Wood. This would be a great place to pay a visit, yes?
The Wood Street Urban Farm is a USDA Certified organic production farm in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. It was started in 1992 by Les Brown, Director of Policy for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, who passed away in 2005, as a training program for the homeless and jobless. Today, the Wood Street Urban Farm employs 30 part-time workers, including ex-offenders, and provides job training while helping to alleviate the food desert problem in the area. They estimated they'd grow about 10,000 lbs of produce this year on just 2/3 of an acre. You can see a photo gallery at the Sun-Times website and a segment from CLTV below that profiles the urban farm.
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You can support Growing Home by purchasing their organic produce every Wednesday. 100% of the proceeds goes to improving their job training program and the costs of operating their farms sites. They're also in need of office supplies and equipment like; Flash drives, filing cabinets, book shelves, copy machines, notebooks, binders, staplers and farm tools. You can contact the administrative office at 2732 N. Clark, Suite 310, Chicago, IL 60614. Tel 773-549-1336
BTW, go over to that blog and look at the various produce you can grow in your own backyards. :)
ALSO, here's a website to the Wood Street Urban Farm courtesy of Growing Home, Inc's website!
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