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URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE AND LOVE, TITO’S BLOCK TO BLOCK TEAM UP
TO UPGRADE SOUTH CHICAGO FARM WITH DYNAMIC OUTDOOR COMMUNITY SPACE The Project Will Support the Development of UGC’s South Chicago Farm by Creating an Outdoor Studio & Kitchen Space to Further Integrate Culinary & Arts Programming WHO & WHAT: Love, Tito’s Block to Block is teaming up with Urban Growers Collective, a Black- and woman-led …
Red Clay Dance at Grant Park Farm
Join us for Creating Fertile Grounds for Healing! This Thursday, September 15th at 5:30 PM for a transformative 90-minute experience filled with song, music, dance, planting/harvesting tours, and concluding with a community meal and meditation/rest. This intergenerational and communal movement-based event takes place at Urban Growers Collective Art on the Farm located in Grant Park. …
2022 Quarter 2 Report
Read the full Quarterly Report here. Dear Friends, Our work generates economic prosperity, food security, and communal wellness for BIPOC in our communities. Our goal is to build intergenerational wealth and intergenerational health. For the past two decades building Urban Growers Collective and its predecessor Growing Power, we have cherished this work while also becoming …
2022 Quarter 1 Report
Read the full Quarterly Report here. Friends, Youth are particularly burdened by food injustice, yet they are so often ignored in generating solutions. We’re seeking to change that. Urban Growers Collective aims to address inequalities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color—and we invest in young people …
Goat Care
We got some calls concerning the goats and chickens at South Chicago being cold. Here is some information to help clarify some of the issues. Housing Goats and chickens have a hoop-house at South Chicago farm. It serves like a barn (but is actually warmer than a barn because the plastic traps the heat of …