TOMORROW! 🔥🔥 Join Growing Home Inc, Grow Greater Englewood and Urban Growers Collective for the Annual Urban Ag Crawl & Backyard BBQ on September 8, 2024 in our own farm backyards! $100 all-inclusive tickets; $25 for community residents. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/evDSGV3m Questions? Contact 773.549.1336 or [email protected] #GoodInEnglewood #GrowingHomeInc #communitygarden
Growing Home Inc.
Civic and Social Organizations
Chicago, Illinois 1,098 followers
We believe everyone deserves a good job and good food.
About us
Growing Home believes that everyone deserves a good job and good food. Through our high-production USDA-certified organic farms in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, we provide job training to people with employment barriers and provide access to organic produce in a neighborhood with few sources of fresh food. Our unique employment training program uses farming to teach transferable skills to adults with extreme barriers to employment, such as criminal records, homelessness, or low education. Through fieldwork, classroom instruction, and personalized case management, we prepare our participants to enter full-time, stable jobs in Chicago's food and farming industries. In 2019, 78% of our program graduates secured employment. Each year we cultivate over 30,000 pounds of organic produce on just under an acre of city land. We sell our produce at Green City Market in Lincoln Park, Logan Square Farmer's Market, IMAN's Fresh Beats and Eats in Englewood, and at our own Wood Street Farm Stand in Englewood. Produce at IMAN and our Farm Stand is sold at half its market value, and is coupled with farm tours and cooking workshops to empower community residents to develop healthy habits. During the pandemic, we have continued our employment training program in a hybrid virtual format and focused on distributing 90-100% of our food in our community at no cost to Englewood residents. We have started online cooking demos as well as teaching nutrition and growing classes via zoom. We are still growing!
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http://www.growinghomeinc.org
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- Industry
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1996
- Specialties
- Workforce Development, Social Services, Urban Agriculture, Community Outreach, Social Enterprise, Nonprofit, Food Access, Job Training, and Employment Training
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825 W 69th St
2nd Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60621, US
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5814 S Wood St
Chicago, IL 60636, US
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🔥🍔 Meet #ChefRome who will be among the talented chefs providing delicious small bites to Chicago Urban Ag Crawl and Backyard BBQ attendees! Chef Rome’s culinary experience spans the globe. While working at Spago, Chef Rome studied culinary arts in Paris. He would later serve as a culinary consultant on a privately owned yacht for over a year while sailing the Caribbean. From 1998-2003, Chef Rome was one of five chefs selected to work at the Cannes International Film Festival’s American Pavilion—alongside master chefs Roger Verge, Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, and Todd English. ≠ In 2000, Chef Rome founded Rome’s Joy Companies, which boasts a diverse business portfolio. This includes a brick-and-mortar restaurant called Peach’s on 47th, two grab-and-go concession locations at the University of Chicago, Rome’s Joy Catering (a full-service catering and event planning company), RJC Sausage (a chicken sausage manufacturer), Parkway Social (a coworking space and historic event facility), Blanc (a fine arts gallery), and Rome and a Day Productions (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization), all located in the heart of Chicago's Bronzeville community. .................................................................. Don't miss out on this one-of-a-kind event on September 8 - featuring multi-stops across Greater Englewood featuring local chef samples, delicious food, drinks, live music, urban farm and garden trolley tours, garden activities, raffles, games, paddle raise and more! $100 all-inclusive tickets; $25 for community residents. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/evDSGV3m #Meetthechefs #GoodInEnglewood #GrowingHomeInc #communitygarden #chicagoevents #thingstodoChicago @growgreaterenglewood @urbangrowerscollective
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Almost Here! Join Growing Home Inc, Grow Greater Englewood and Urban Growers Collective for the Annual Urban Ag Crawl & Backyard BBQ on September 8, 2024 in our own farm backyards! 🌿🌿 Local food, drinks, games, raffles, tours and live music 🎶 along multiple farm stops. Proceeds go to Growing Home, Grow Greater Englewood, Urban Growers Collective & local urban growers. Don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind event on September 8 - featuring multi-stops across Greater Englewood featuring local chef samples, delicious food, drinks, live music, urban farm and garden trolley tours, garden activities, raffles, games, paddle raise and more! $100 all-inclusive tickets; $25 for community residents. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/evDSGV3m Questions? Contact 773.549.1336 or [email protected] #Meetthechefs #GoodInEnglewood #GrowingHomeInc #communitygarden #chicagoevents #thingstodoChicago @growgreaterenglewood @urbangrowerscollective
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🔥🍔 Meet #ChefT who will be among the talented chefs providing delicious small bites to Chicago Urban Ag Crawl and Backyard BBQ attendees! Chef Tsadakeeyah Ben Emmanuel has been a vegan for over 40 years, and a self-taught vegan chef for 35. While leading Soul Vegetarian Atlanta, the restaurant was named Best Vegetarian Restaurant by the Atlanta Journal & Constitution. His wife Nasya Emmanuel has been a vegan for over 19 years and is a graduate of Washburn Culinary Institute as a Pastry Chef. Together they started Majani which began as catering service from home, then moved into a shared kitchen. Majani sponsored the award winning Bronzeville Community Garden, creating meals and preparing food in the garden from the produce grown. In 2019 Majani opened its shared kitchen at 7261 S Exchange Ave, making it easier for budding chefs to find a pathway to business. Majani has recently celebrated 6 years in business and is working to create new vegan concepts and opportunities for the community. .................................................................. Don't miss out on this one-of-a-kind event on September 8 - featuring multi-stops across Greater Englewood featuring local chef samples, delicious food, drinks, live music, urban farm and garden trolley tours, garden activities, raffles, games, paddle raise and more! $100 all-inclusive tickets; $25 for community residents. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/evDSGV3m #Meetthechefs #GoodInEnglewood #GrowingHomeInc #communitygarden #chicagoevents #thingstodoChicago @growgreaterenglewood @urbangrowerscollective
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🔥🍔 Meet #ChefTiffany / Chef Mama William, who will be among the talented chefs providing delicious small bites to Chicago Urban Ag Crawl and Backyard BBQ attendees! Don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind event on September 8 - featuring multi-stops across Greater Englewood featuring local chef samples, delicious food, drinks, live music, urban farm and garden trolley tours, garden activities, raffles, games, paddle raise and more! $100 all-inclusive tickets; $25 for community residents. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/evDSGV3m #Meetthechefs #GoodInEnglewood #GrowingHomeInc #communitygarden #chicagoevents #thingstodoChicago @growgreaterenglewood @urbangrowerscollective
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🌱 #ThrowbackThursday: Last week, Growing Home’s Farms and Program Manager, Ezra Lee, sat down with CBS 2 TV to discuss the Travel Carbon Inset Initiative, which was highlighted at the DNC. This initiative allowed delegates to contribute to sustainability efforts, directly supporting Growing Home's mission as a high-production, USDA-certified organic urban farm, workforce development center, and non-profit social enterprise. 🌍 #GoodInEnglewood #UrbanAg #GrowingHomeInc #Sustainability #Chicago https://lnkd.in/eeya_VZE
Chicago urban farm Growing Home helps with sustainability effort at DNC, sees continued benefit
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🔥🍔 Meet #ChefJeannine and team who will be among the talented chefs providing delicious small bites to Chicago Urban Ag Crawl and Backyard BBQ attendees! After attending culinary school together over a decade ago, Dr. Ed McDonald and Jeannine Wise reunited to create programming for Good Food is Good Medicine. They understand its not the food, its the pattern, that how we eat can be a pathway to health, and that we are all part of a food system where factors such as redlining, food apartheid and social determinants of health need to be considered in addition to individual choice. .................................................................. Don't miss out on this one-of-a-kind event on September 8 - featuring multi-stops across Greater Englewood featuring local chef samples, delicious food, drinks, live music, urban farm and garden trolley tours, garden activities, raffles, games, paddle raise and more! $100 all-inclusive tickets; $25 for community residents. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/evDSGV3m #Meetthechefs #GoodInEnglewood #GrowingHomeInc #communitygarden #chicagoevents #thingstodoChicago @growgreaterenglewood @urbangrowerscollective
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🔥🍔 Meet #ChefSebastian who will be among the talented chefs providing delicious small bites to Chicago Urban Ag Crawl and Backyard BBQ attendees! Chef Sebastian seeks to inspire through food and use its lessons to heal. He is a trained psychotherapist, who was working with youth who were gang-involved, labeled at-risk, and many others who were simply struggling with the complexities of life before being hit and devastated by the unexpected deaths of both his aunt (Gwen Barjon) and father (William White Jr). In their honor, he founded The Evolved Network, NFP and established Evolved Kitchen and Garden, LLC. Learn more about Sebastian and the amazing work he does at theevolvednetwork.org. .................................................................. Don't miss out on this one-of-a-kind event on September 8 - featuring multi-stops across Greater Englewood featuring local chef samples, delicious food, drinks, live music, urban farm and garden trolley tours, garden activities, raffles, games, paddle raise and more! $100 all-inclusive tickets; $25 for community residents. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/evDSGV3m #Meetthechefs #GoodInEnglewood #GrowingHomeInc #communitygarden #chicagoevents #thingstodoChicago @growgreaterenglewood @urbangrowerscollective
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🔥🍔 Meet #ChefNyah & #ChefMichelle who will be among the talented chefs providing delicious small bites to Chicago Urban Ag Crawl and Backyard BBQ attendees! Chef “Shamrok” Nyah Griffin and Partner & Sous Chef Michelle offer @The Pamoja ExperienceLLC to their community! Established in August 2020 in the midst of a Global Pandemic, this family-owned and operated business strives to remain committed to offering healthy, efficient and consciousoptions for families and individuals to eat with purpose, eat for sustenance, and feel great doing it! With weekly meal prep programs featuring fresh menus that service families all acrossChicagoland and NW Indiana area AND a wide range of Professional Chef Services, TPE is the full Experience! In their own words, “Our aim is to provide services with the foundation that family is the root andpriority, love is essential and the balance between food and health are the gateway to long lifeand that’s true wealth. BREATHE. PAY. EAT. WEALTH.” .................................................................. Don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind event on September 8 - featuring multi-stops across Greater Englewood featuring local chef samples, delicious food, drinks, live music, urban farm and garden trolley tours, garden activities, raffles, games, paddle raise and more! $100 all-inclusive tickets; $25 for community residents. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/evDSGV3m #Meetthechefs #GoodInEnglewood #GrowingHomeInc #communitygarden #chicagoevents #thingstodoChicago @growgreaterenglewood @urbangrowerscollective
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#ICYMI Growing Home Inc was recently on the Munir Muhammad Show discussing the great work that we're doing in Greater Englewood in workforce development, healthy food access, and urban agriculture. Check out the interview below https://ow.ly/hsEV50T7wsH
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