Pivot and persevere: Farming Chicago’s South Side
What makes a farmer? Chicago farmer Natasha Nicholes has some ideas — and they have nothing to do with assets and acreage.
By Holly Spangler
Prairie Farmer Senior Editor
Farm Progress
Sept 23
Excerpt:
We Sow We Grow is one of about 75 urban farms in Chicago, plus nearly 650 community and school gardens. The Urban Growers Collective is another nonprofit that operates eight farms on 11 acres across Chicago’s South Side, including a lot in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood. The rooftop garden at Gary Comer Youth Center produces 1,000 pounds of food annually for farmers markets and restaurants, and provides educational opportunities for local youth.
Throughout the year at We Sow We Grow, Natasha and Shomari work to bring the neighborhood into the farm, and they take the farm into the neighborhood. They’ve partnered with South Holland Public Library’s Youth Services department to host a seed starting class and hosted an evergreen wreath-making class with the University of Illinois Extension. They’re also teaching composting.
They’ve sponsored block parties, hosted outdoor Movies on the Farm, and put on a Harvest Festival. That festival brought in their ward alderman and his staff. And Natasha starred in an Illinois Farm Bureau docuseries on YouTube called Fields Apart: Rooted Together, featuring farmers from rural and urban corners of Illinois.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/pivot-and-persevere-farming-chicagos-south-side/
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