Honore Street Urban Farm – NeighborSpace

Contact Information: Visit the Growing Home website or email info@growinghomeinc.org
Address: 5830 S Wolcott
Neighborhood/Community Area: West Englewood
Garden Established: 2011
Protected by NeighborSpace: 2014
Social Media/Website:
Facebook: @growinghomeinc
Instagram: Growing Home
Website: Growing Home
Twitter: @growinghome
Fundraising: Support Honore Street Urban Farm
Community Partners: Growing Home

About the Garden: (From Growinghomeinc.org)
We have a vision of a world of healthy people and communities. Everyone deserves to have a good job, and everyone deserves to eat well.
That’s why we’ve been helping people find meaningful careers through skills learned while farming since 2002. Growing Home is Chicago’s leading expert in farm-based training for people with employment barriers. By providing 25 hours per week of paid on-the-job experience and job-readiness training at our farms, plus the support to conquer issues like criminal records, medical needs, child-care, and housing, we have changed the lives of hundreds of workers, and thousands of their family members.
We start people on the path to self-sufficiency. When people have jobs, they have economic stability in their lives; this stability allows for healthy people and families. But we don’t stop there: we use our unique model to impact neighborhoods with the greatest need. That’s why our farms are located in Englewood, a community on the South side of Chicago that has been under-served for decades and has extremely high rates of unemployment and poverty, hundreds of acres of vacant lots, and a distinct lack of healthy food choices.
When communities have access to healthy food options, the overall well-being and health of the residents improves. With economic resources and physical health, neighbors are more able to participate in the rejuvenation of their community.
To help people find meaningful, sustaining careers, we train them in job skills, give them real work experience, and support them while they begin their careers by helping with job placement and life-planning. We not only provide the support people need to succeed, but also the space to define what success means to them. To transform our community, we offer our produce to our neighbors at significantly reduced prices, advocate for the issues impacting Englewood, and open up our space for trainings, workshops, and more.