Greater Grand Crossing Youth Center Gets $250,000 Grant To Expand Urban Farming Program
The Food Sovereignty Hub will have a greenhouse, outdoor kitchen classroom, hydroponic garden and more geared towards educating the next generation of local farmers.
By Atavia Reed
Block Club Chicago
Aug 15, 2025
Excerpt:
The hub will help expand the existing urban agriculture program at Gary Comer Youth Center, Anderson said. The campus boasts the largest youth-run farm in the city, with over 160 young people working each year to maintain the 1.75-acre farm, 6,000-square-foot rooftop garden and hydroponic lab.
Students in the program learn how to grow microgreens in classrooms, market fresh produce to local restaurateurs, and harvest carrots, watermelon, kale and mustard greens.
The community-focused hub will boost food production while providing a hands-on education in urban farming.
“We want to create a space that’s welcoming to everybody,” Anderson said. “We’ll have an outdoor kitchen, a classroom, really showing that everybody — teens, young adults and adults — where your food comes from and you can grow it yourself. There’s no real magic to it.”
Young farmers can grow an abundance of produce year-round inside the Food Sovereignty Hub’s greenhouse and Farmbox container farm, Anderson said.
Speciality crops that normally wouldn’t survive Chicago’s frosty climate can now thrive in the winter. The production of local fresh foods is expected to increase by up to six to eight additional tons at the hub.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/greater-grand-crossing-youth-center-gets-250000-grant-to-expand-urban-farming-program/
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