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Welcome to Chicago Grows Food! A collaborative project devoted to expanding and unifying the food growing community in Chicagoland. We are working towards food sovereignty by providing the materials, tools, education and resources anyone needs to garden!

We believe that communities in and around Chicago deserve equitable and holistic health outcomes and that empowering and creatively connecting advocates for safe and environmentally-conscious food production, land stewardship, food access, food security and nutrition will help bring this vision to life.

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Join us Sunday, January 25, 2026 from 4-6pm for Music Bingo! 🎵

Get out of your house, build community, and fight food insecurity.

At Chicago Grows Food we are working to empower communities with the resources to grow their own fresh, healthy, culturally relevant food. By participating in this event, you’re helping increase access to growing food at home.

All proceeds from this event will support the Grow Your Groceries initiative – https://www.chicagogrowsfood.org/grow-your-groceries-2/. Every attendee will go home with a seedling and pot!

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Every Contribution Makes a Difference

You can help provide the materials for someone to grow their own food, improve their mental and physical health, and make accessing fresh produce easier and cheaper.

Check Out All The Ways You Can Support Us

In Kind, Volunteering, Gardening Experience and more!

What We Are Hearing

“I'm a better person because I'm a gardener now. I'm more appreciative of food because of the ability to grow my own food and CGF was the beginning steps to making it happen. I'm forever grateful”

"Oh, it was beautiful. That's the best garden I've had so far."

"I felt proud of myself as well, because it's something that I have been wanting to do like wanting to have a home garden, but didn't know where to start or if I would even be successful. So it was a good kick in the pants that I needed to just do it, to just try it, to learn. And I think again, learning how to be flexible. So it was a, it was a good learning experience for me. Like I felt really proud of myself. But um, even though like some of my plants weren't as successful, like, not feeling defeated, of like, “Okay, I know, I need to switch some things up. Like I know things need to be a little bit different.” And not being afraid to like try it again."

“The kids get really excited about eating the salad that they harvest themselves. They put the seeds there and then they harvest it. And then [the lunch chef] has it ready for the kids to eat at lunch”.

Many of our parents loved the grow bags and appreciated the bags being sent home. Thank you so much, it helped build a better bridge from families to school.