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The programs of Chicago Lights is extended by many partnerships with other organizations around the city. Here a few organizations that partner with the Urban Farm. Growing Power 
Will Allen is the Chief Executive Officer of Growing Power, the nonprofit organization that works with us to help maintain our community garden. As a leading voice in the urban farming movement, he was recently featured in an article in the New York Times Magazine. The piece highlights his work with community gardens around the country and his mission to give people living in lower-income areas access to healthy produce via sustainable community gardens.
Click to read the full article.You can also read more about Will Allen in a recent TIME article, The 2010 Time 100, by clicking here. Roosevelt University Roosevelt has been partnering with the Chicago Lights Urban Farm for a few years. In August 2010, Professor Maris Cooke wrote a blog post about the role her student's play in the partnership and how Sustainability Studies are incorporated into learning. Here is an excerpt: "Cook's teaching in the Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies has involved food issues for several years. Several versions of her PLS 391 Seminar in Natural Sciences have focused on how food issues relate to urban environmental deterioration and poverty. Cooke learned about the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago's Mission Outreach Program, which began the conversion of an outdoor basketball court to a community garden in 2002. The garden is located on a property the church owns next to the Cabrini Green Public Housing Project. ... ...The garden is currently in a transformational period as the Cabrini Green Public Housing projects are being torn down. However,with the Cabrini Row Houses and nearby North Town Village, the garden has become a year round urban farm. As Cooke's first offering of SUST 230 Food began this summer, the national organization Growing Power (founded by MacArthur Fellow Will Allen), has put high school students of the community at work tending to urban gardens. ...Students in SUST 230 Food are helping with this summerÕs conversion of the garden to a year-round farm, but RooseveltÕs relationship with the high school students of the area does not end there.... Click to read the full blog Eve Restaurant (www.evechicago.com) Kendall College (www.kendall.edu) |
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Mark Your Calendar Every Saturday Fresh Produce is available for sale at the Urban Farm 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. September 7 New Tutor Orienation 6:00 p.m. September 9 Center for Life and Learning Free Open House 10:00 a.m. or 5:00 p.m. September 9 Lunch and Reception to learn about Volunteering with Caring Cirlces 12:30 p.m. September 9 T'ai Chi Classes Begin 5:00 p.m. September 13 New Tutor Orienation 6:00 p.m. September 16 New Tutor Orienation 6:00 p.m. "The biggest draw for us to Chicago Lights, both as volunteers and benefactors, has been the sense of being apart of a strong community that inspires others and leads by example.
Chicago Lights has allowed both of us to share the gifts we have been so blessed with while gaining new perspective on the challenges our community faces." |
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