Growing Home, Inc.

Please check out this opinion piece over the at The Washington Times by Aaron K. Chatterji and Christpher Gergen called "Urban Farms a Fertile Idea." Growing Home is featured, as well as Growing Power and the ever-innovative folks at Michigan State University.

Growing Home has been featured in a New York Times article about green nonprofit groups and social enterprise.  Read the full article here.

Please download the Urban Farms Manager job description for more information and how to apply.

THANKS to documentary filmmaker Judith Helfand for directing and producing this wonderful short film of the Wood Street Urban Farm ribbon cutting.

On September 8th we hosted a delegation from Japan at our Wood St. Urban Farm, who were very interested in urban agriculture and social enterprise. The delegation were guests of the Chicago Community Loan Fund, one of our partners.

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for graduation this year. We had a great time! In addition to the presentation of graduation certificates, a number of interns read from pieces they had written in a writing workshop offered by the Community Writing Project...

The end of the 2009 job training program here at Growing Home is coming to a close. I can tell it in many ways: partially, because I associate the cool weather and short days with a change in my day-to-day work...

It might not look like it over in the widget on the left-hand side, but we've gotten pretty far already in our Board of Directors Challenge Grant. A lot of money is coming in through the mail, which means it doesn't show up in the donation widget.....

Over at the New York Times, Michael Pollan has a fun slideshow of "food rules" sent in by readers. Four of Growing Home's staff went to hear Pollan speak at Ravinia about a week ago - what a great speaker!

If you've ever wondered this question, you'll be glad to know The Field Museum has a new section up on their website devoted to helping people figure out how to incorporate a focus on sustainability into their lifes. You can find it here.

You might remember our Executive Director, Harry's, email/blog post from a few weeks ago about Growing Home's $100,000 funding gap due to the tough economy's effect on private foundations...

Act now! Growing Home egg shares for the fall season are still available.  The price?  A very affordable $10 for two deliveries.  Goes great with the fall CSA share.  Download the registration form here.

We're so close to reaching our $1000 goal for the matching grant I wrote about earlier...

If you were at the Harvest Festival last Saturday and got a chance to watch Diana Leifer's cooking demo, you had a chance to see some great recipes prepared. And if you couldn't make it, you missed some stellar food...