January 29, 2025
In early January, Derrick Rose donated money for Growing Home’s Rose Garden project, which will enable the urban farming organization to grow pollinators and roses in the garden at the front of the farm. PHOTO PROVIDED BY GROWING HOME.
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Growing Home Looks Toward The Future With New Projects
Growing Home operates an urban farm on 1.7 acres of remediated farmland. That land had been previously zoned as light industrial and left as concrete lots in Englewood. During years of disinvestment in the community, it became abandoned. The lots were tested for contamination, remediated, capped and had two feet of compost placed on top.