Growing Home is a USDA-Certified Organic urban farm, workforce development center and non-profit social enterprise in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. We believe that everyone deserves a good job, to eat well, and to live in a vibrant, supported community. We serve our communities through paid innovative employment training and local, healthy, affordable food.
Growing Home’s 21st Annual Benefit
May 11, 2023 | 5:30pm-8:30pm | Salvage One, Chicago
This is our biggest event of the year featuring farm fresh food, local drinks, celebrations of Growing Home’s alumni and successes, silent auction and games and our closest donors and guests all together in one spot. We can’t wait for you to join!
Paid Workforce Development
Apply Today to our Program.
Growing Home offers a comprehensive, PAID Employment Training program with extensive services and resources to Chicagoans 18+ looking for employment. Our goal is to help all participants find the next step in their career journey. Click here to learn more about our 12-week Employment Training Program and click here to fill out an application for February 2023.
Volunteer with Growing Home
We love our volunteers! Volunteers are essential to the functioning of our farm, our food & community programs and our events. Please sign up for your shift below – or to be part of our monthly volunteer email newsletter.
What if we could grow?
Featuring alumni, community partners, employer partners, staff, and more, this testament to our work recounts Growing Home’s impact over the past 17 years, while posing a very important question: What if this is just the beginning?
Growing Home Kitchen
Check out the first season of our online cooking showing with Growing Home’s Community Engagement Coordinator LaQuandra Fair using our own produce! Farm-fresh, easy, delicious meals.
Wherever I go in the next five, ten, twenty years, it’s always going to come back to this. To Growing Home. Because there’s something that you all saw in me, and your hearts went out to me. People don’t have to do something like that if they don’t want to. They do it because they believe someone like me deserves a second chance. Growing Home gave me a second chance.
– Program Graduate –