Chicago FarmWorks - Heartland Human Care Services

For many low-income communities, affordable food, especially affordable healthy food, is in short supply. To help address this problem, we partner with the City of Chicago, NeighborSpace, Rush University Medical Center, Breakthrough Urban Ministries, and Our Lady of the Angels Community Pantry, to operate a 2.8-acre urban farm in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood. We grow, harvest and distribute our produce with crucial support from our volunteers and our transitional job participants who are working to overcome barriers to secure permanent full-time jobs.

Chicago FarmWorks, Heartland Human Care Services’ urban farm in the East Garfield Park community, fights two issues associated with poverty: economic opportunity and health. Utilizing a 2.8-acre farm in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, we distribute local produce of the highest quality to those who need it most and help people overcoming multiple barriers to employment find full-time, permanent, viable jobs.