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Growing Home provides transitional employment and training to Chicagoans who have multiple barriers to employment, such as, having been previously homeless or incarcerated.

Through a social enterprise business based on organic agriculture, the Growing Home job training program assists individuals in securing permanent and unsubsidized employment.

The program provides experiential learning opportunities and employment in a local economy, as well as, a unique job readiness curriculum that helps reintroduce participants back into the workforce.

-Growing Home develops innovative urban and other agricultural initiatives with economic development potential. In 2010, Growing Home’s Wood Street Urban Farm grew and sold over 11,000 pounds of local, USDA Certified Organic produce, with over $45,000 in earned income.

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Growing Home’s Mission: 

To operate, promote, and demonstrate the use of organic agriculture as a vehicle for job training, employment, and community development. Read the story here 

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Fred Daniels talks about Growing Home.

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Polly, from Growing Home, Inc tells us about their newest urban farm in the Chicago neighborhood of Englewood and how they combat one of the food deserts in Chicago.

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