At Urban Growers Collective, we love food and equity.  Who wants to sit down to a feast when people are nutritionally deprived in your city? Or that we can’t make better food choices due to what is available or affordable in our neighborhoods? Urban Growers Collective was formed to work on this issue and create …

We’ve been doing cooking demonstrations all over town these last few weeks as part of our Fresh Moves Mobile Market launch.  Join us today at the True to Life Foundation to try pasta samples from Barilla and salad samples from Sweetgreen that we’ll be selling on the buses this summer. Below is one of the …

To learn more about UGC’s Goals and Objectives for the 2018 growing season, please read: UGC Goals and Objectives 2018

Request for Proposals Art on the Farm, 2018 Workshops Priority Deadline – April 15, 2018 *After April 15, proposals will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis Download the RFP here. Where: All workshops are held at our South Chicago Farm 9000 South Mackinaw Street, Chicago, IL, 60617 (Intersection of 90th Street and Mackinaw …

“The Work: To Make Revolution Irresistible.” – Toni Cade Bambara The last few months have been a whirlwind of excitement as we launched Urban Growers Collective.  During that time, the persistent questions have been, “what happened to Growing Power? Why are you starting something new?” Growing Power’s mission is the product of a great visionary, …