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Growing Home

Also known as: Growing Home Farm Stand, Growing Home Inc.

A USDA-certified-organic urban farm + 501(c)(3) workforce-development nonprofit in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood — ~17 years of operation. Mission: 'Empowering healthy people and communities through urban organic agriculture.' Runs paid employment-training programs for residents, local food production-and-distribution, and an on-site farm stand. The farm at 1844 West 59th Street / 6429 South Honore Street is one of the anchor urban-farm operations on Chicago's South Side.

What they do

Growing Home is a USDA-certified-organic urban farm and 501(c)(3) workforce-development nonprofit in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood — South Side, ~17 years of operation. Mission: “Empowering healthy people and communities through urban organic agriculture.”

Three integrated programs:

  • USDA-certified-organic urban farm — the working production land
  • On-site farm stand retailing the farm’s own organic produce
  • Paid employment-training program — residents earn while learning farming, food-handling, and adjacent workforce skills

Stated principle: “everyone deserves a good job, to eat well, and to live in a vibrant, supported community.”

Why it’s listed

Three specific filters compound: USDA-Organic certification (the highest-bar federal standard), 501(c)(3) social-enterprise structure (board-accountable, public-financials), and paid workforce-development in a historically-disinvested Black neighborhood (Englewood). Most urban farms run on one of these signals; Growing Home runs on all three at once. The combination is what makes this substrate-tier rather than just-an-urban-farm.

Bioregional fit

Englewood is on Chicago’s South Side — [[chicagoland]] bioregion.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Instance of: [[farm]] · [[farm-stand]]
  • Shares approach with: [[food-sovereignty]] · [[regenerative-agriculture]]
  • Member of: [[organization]]
  • Contained by: [[chicagoland]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[farm]] · [[farm-stand]].

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[chicagoland]] in the directory.

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