Growing For Good
Last summer I had the opportunity to volunteer for the @UrbanGrowersCollective , a Black and women-led non-profit farm in Chicago working to build a more just and equitable local food system, as part of a collaborative of volunteer photographers. This is a mix of photos from their Grant Park garden downtown and their Chicago South Side farm. I just wish I could have made it out a few more times as they do so much more with their mobile farmers market @freshmoveschi and also for the end of the season harvest but my schedule didn’t allow for it.
A volunteer tends to the garden at Art on the Farm, located in Chicago’s downtown Grant Park as part of the ambassador youth corps.
Urban Farm Volunteer running from the compost bin after dumping garden clippings into it
Two volunteers walk down the main pathway at the South Chicago Farm for the Urban Growers Collective.
A ladybug crawls along a lettuce plant in Chicago’s Grant park urban farm
A volunteer prunes a flower bush at Art on the Farm, located in Grant Park as part of the Growing for Good ambassador youth corps.
Urban Growers Collective southside farm with hexagon dome greenhouse
A goat on the southside Growing for Good urban farm eating greens
A volunteer fills a wheelbarrow with mulch at the South Chicago Farm.
Urban farms greenhouses with residential houses in the background.
Urban greenhouse with a farmers shirt hanging in the doorway
Bell pepper plant growing in an urban community farm.
Chicago community farm with shipping containers for equipment storage
Urban farm volunteers posing for a portrait
Urban Growers Collective farmers market food truck
