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Job Training Tuesday...On Wednesday
Things have been quite busy for the 2009 interns! They are currently in their third month of the Employment Training Program. On Tuesdays work activities include doing site maintenance work at Wood St. (bed preparation, weeding, pest control) as well as work at the Su Casa site mowing and weeding...
Yesterday at 10:59am
Growing Home, Inc.

Growing Home, Inc.

Job Training Tuesday
One of the questions we get most often as Growing Home staff is, "Sure you have a job training program, but what do people in the program do all day?" If you ask us that and we pause, it's just because we're trying to figure out how to cram everything into just a couple sentences...
Tue at 8:21am
Growing Home, Inc.

Growing Home, Inc.

New Volunteer Opportunity
Monday Tutoring Sessions One-on-one tutoring every Monday at the Wood Street Urban Farm.  Help our Job Training Program Interns improve their skills in areas such as math, computers and job readiness.  Find out more her
Tue at 8:21am
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Growing Home, Inc.

June Newsletter
Have you ever wanted to keep up with the regular goings-on of Growing Home? The best way to do that is by signing up to receive our monthly newsletter...
June 23 at 11:03pm
Diane
Diane at 4:44am June 24
Thanks!
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Growing Home, Inc.

Cancellation of June Open House
Dear All, We have unfortunately had to cancel the Saturday open house that was scheduled for June 27th! I apologize if  you were planning on coming. Please remember that we have an open house each week at the farm on Tuesdays from 3:00 - 4:30. Thanks for understanding. Best, Rebekah Silverma
June 22 at 1:04pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Growing Home CSA Share Newsletters
We've started to upload all archived CSA Newsletters from the 2009 season.  Find them here
June 22 at 1:04pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Growing Home's 7th Annual Benefit
If you're planning on coming to Growing Home's 7th Annual Benefit, please note: 5:30 - 6:30 pm Cocktail hour with open wine bar and hors d'oeuvres by The Balanced Kitchen, Monogramme Catering, Chef Tsadakeeyah Emmanuel, and the Meatloaf Bakery 6:30 - 7:30 pm Dinner served by Nia Mediterranean...
June 9 at 1:43pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Purchase Benefit Tickets Online
You can purchase tickets to Growing Home's 7th Annual Benefit online here.
June 9 at 1:43pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

CSA is Sold Out!
Thanks so much to everyone who has purchased CSA shares this year. As of 6/1/09, we sold out! (If you have a question about whether your registration was accepted or put on our waitlist, please email us.)
June 1 at 4:44pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Win Two Tickets to Growing Home's Annual Benefit!
While we would (of course!) love for you to buy tickets to our Benefit coming up on June 11, we have some opportunities in the works for you to win pairs of tickets to the event. The first, now available, is a sweepstakes at The Local Beet...
May 29 at 9:54am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Growing Home Featured on 'A Fresh Squeeze'
There's an article up over on A Fresh Squeeze about Growing Home's benefit on June 11th. Also: some of the chefs are starting to phone in their planned dishes...
May 28 at 6:51pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Job Training Tuesday
What a great day! On Wednesday May 13, 2009 interns were treated to a day at the Garfield Park Conservatory. In keeping with Growing Home's dedication to green living, interns were introduced to horticulture and the importance plant life plays in the planet’s survival...
May 19 at 10:38am
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Growing Home, Inc.

You can help!
As you may know, our annual benefit and chef tasting is coming up. Please download and share our press release! We want YOU and ALL YOUR FRIENDS to make it out to this awesome event...
May 18 at 11:24am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Introduction to Wood Street Farm Work Groups
Recently interns were divided into teams for particular areas of farm management. These groups are Harvest and Processing, Market Preparation and Reporting, Recycling Policy and Procedures and Public Relations. Each team has a particular goal with specific guidelines...
May 15 at 11:44am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Volunteer Opportunity: Annual Benefit
As you may know, Growing Home's Annual Benefit is scheduled for June 11, 2009 in the Chicago Cultural Center's Preston Bradley Hall (the one with the giant Tiffany glass dome)...
May 11 at 1:37pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Spring CSA Shares are Sold Out
Please make a note that spring shares are sold out for Growing Home's 2009 CSA program. There's still time to sign up for SUMMER, FALL, and EGG shares! And don't forget: you can even get your shares delivered by bike to your door!
April 29 at 9:11am
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Growing Home, Inc.

2009 Annual Benefit: June 11!
Growing Home's 7th Annual BenefitJune 11th, 2009Cocktails at 5:30 pmPreston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center Please head over here to find out more about our 2009 Annual Benefit. You can get your tickets online here. Click these for .pdfs of the invitation and RSVP card.
April 27 at 10:00am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Growing Home on WGN
April 24 at 3:01pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Volunteering TODAY
Howdy, all. If you were planning to volunteer in Growing Home's office today to help us stuff envelopes, please give us a call first to make sure we still have work to do! (773) 549-1336. --Tegan and Rebekah
April 21 at 1:26pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

CSA Shares Are Still Available
The title of the post says almost all of it. Although inventory is running low on spring shares, we have quite a few summer shares still available. Download a registration form here.
April 21 at 1:26pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Free Tickets to "Food, Inc." Screening
RSVP for your free ticket to http://sites.google.com/site/foodincrsvp/. Limited availability. Tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis.
April 20 at 12:11pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Egg Shares Available with 2009 CSAs
Egg shares for all CSA seasons (spring, summer, fall) are now available on a first-come, first served basis. The number of shares is extremely limited! We’re too late in the season to get formal organic certification for our eggs, but we’re following closely to certification standards...
April 20 at 12:11pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

World Wide Web Wednesday
1. There's a quick article over at Gapers Block with info on the upcoming farmer's market season for Green City Market. FYI: Alice Waters and Growing Home will both  be at Green City Market on April 25th. 2...
April 15 at 12:27pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Urban gardening finds a home on Leclaire Ave. -- chicagotribune.com
Source: www.chicagotribune.com
eighbors on the 400 block of Leclaire Avenue are used to pulling together. They clear snow and mow lawns for those for whom that's a hardship. And if they see violence or drug dealing, they unleash the power of the phone tree and block club. ...
April 15 at 11:56am
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Growing Home, Inc. at 11:57am April 15
This thumbnail makes no sense, but it was the only option FB gave me...Very interesting article.
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Growing Home, Inc.

Volunteer Opportunity
We need volunteers to help stuff envelopes, stick stamps, and place labels for our Annual Benefit invitations.We have about 1500 envelopes to get ready and put in zip-code order to take to the post office for bulk mailing...
April 9 at 8:41am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Volunteer Opportunity
If you have never visited Growing Home's Wood Street Urban Farm, here's your chance. We're looking for 10-15 volunteers to help pick and clean our biggest spring harvest yet on Friday, April 17th starting at 8:00 AM. We'll be picking salad mix, arugula, and spinach...
April 9 at 8:41am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
See that? It's a floor. A floor in the almost-finished building at Wood Street! And thanks to Scott Anderson of Cimco Recycling in Ottawa, IL, it's a floor made of recycled wood from a local high school's gym bleachers...
April 8 at 11:07am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Get Your CSA Delivered to Your Doorstep
Find out more here.
April 7 at 11:11am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Volunteer Opportunity
Growing Home is looking for a math teacher for our interns...
April 7 at 11:11am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Job Training Tuesday (Wednesday Edition)
There are exactly 2 weeks until Growing Home’s employment training program begins. The staff is diligently working on putting the final touches on schedules, work plans and curriculum. We are happy to be welcoming 21 interns to join us from April 14th to October 14th...
April 1 at 1:49pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

From the Farm
Today we became proud parents (?) of 35 peeping babies - very effectively distracting Joe, our farm assistant, and I from the tens of thousands of very quiet baby PLANTS that need our attention...
April 1 at 1:49pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

First Market of the Season
To everyone who came out to Growing Home's first market of the season last Saturday, March 28: THANK YOU! We had a great market day, and it was fun to get back in the swing of things. The Chicagoist was there, and included us in a short article about the market...
March 31 at 4:49pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Early Spring at the Wood Street Urban Farm
Thanks to Beth Gunzel, Employment Training Coordinator, for providing these photos! The tiny hoophouse is for seedlings. Lettuce babies.
March 31 at 4:49pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Early Spring at the Les Brown Farm
Thanks to Tracy Noel, our CSA Manager, for generously providing the pictures for for this photo-tour! Alex and Alison, our incubator farmers, check things out as the early spring flooding recedes.   Baby broccoli in the seedling greenhouse.  ...
March 30 at 10:58am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Green Grocer
FYI: If you haven't been over to Green Grocer at 1402 W. Grand, then you're missing out. Owner Cassie Green has put together an outstanding specialty shop that features local and organic foods...
March 30 at 10:58am
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Growing Home, Inc.

Galvanized: The Green Awards Documentary
We are so excited that two of our staff - Harry Rhodes and Orrin Williams - have been honored by Chicago Magazine's Green Awards!  Here's the article about Harry and Orrin...
March 25 at 10:42pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

From the Executive Director
It is a very exciting time to be working in and promoting urban agriculture in Chicago and around the country...
March 25 at 10:42pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

In the News
There's an interview over at Chicago Green Jobs with our Associate Director for Resource Development, Rebekah Silverman. This is the first of a series of interviews that Chicago Green Jobs is planning with green jobbers in Chicago.
March 25 at 10:42pm
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Growing Home, Inc. Anyone interested in helping stuff envelopes next Tuesday evening? Contact info@growinghomeinc.org.

March 25 at 11:26am
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4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
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Growing Home, Inc. at 11:29am March 25
4 to 7 pm.
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Growing Home, Inc. Anyone interested in helping stuff envelopes next Tuesday evening?

March 24 at 11:36am
Diana
Diana at 5:46pm March 24
I think I can do that, that is if it requires no bending, lifting, or twisting! What time? etc?
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Growing Home, Inc.

In the News: Chicago Green Jobs
Over at her website Chicago Green Jobs, Kate Eyler-Werve is tackling the big issues: green jobs, local food, green technology, and the stimulus bill. In her most recent post, "Urban food, green jobs," she takes a look at Growing Home and other urban farming training programs...
February 26 at 1:13pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

In the News: Toronto Star
Growing Home has been featured in an exhibit in Toronto about urban agriculture. There's an article in the Toronto Star about the exhibit here.
February 26 at 1:13pm
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Growing Home, Inc.

Don't Forget Your CSA
Hello, All! Just a friendly reminder that CSA shares are going fast, and we have a limited amount. Download your CSA Registration Form and send it in!
February 18 at 10:55am