Chicago Lights Urban Farm helps to feed community
Chicago Lights Urban Farm produces lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, collard greens, garlic, herbs, spinach, cucumber and squash.
Inflation is causing the price of everything to increase significantly. Fortunately, one Urban Farm is helping to feed people in the community who are the most in need.
started as a community garden in 2003 and became an Urban
Farm in 2010. And, while the high rises of Cabrini-Green Homes are gone, there are still people who live in the some of the rowhouses.
Deja Stout is the associate director of the Urban Farm. She began there as a grower and worked with the high school program. Now, Stout oversees production with the head grower and helps with community engagement and food distribution, as well as running the farm camp for young children.
Urban Farm produces lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, collard greens, kale greens, mustard greens, garlic, herbs, spinach, cucumber, squash and zucchini. Urban Farm has an on-site farmstand which is open from 1 to 5 p.m. every Friday . It opened for the season a couple of weeks ago and will continue through the end of October.
Urban Farm has a voucher program that was started in 2020. It grew out of Urban Farm trying to figure out a way to be more accessible to low-income people. Those people can come and shop the farmstand for free up to $25. Specifically for Cabrini Green residents, Urban Farm delivers produce door-to-door to them for free.
farm has become a staple in a community that has experience gentrification.
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