Growing for Chicago

The City of Chicago proposes to create a urban farming system/a cohort-based model to assist high-potential farmers in establishing businesses; preparing and placing more land into land trusts or cooperative tenure arrangements; expanding recruitment of historically underserved individuals for training; and hiring an urban agriculture coordinator to be housed at the City of Chicago. In addition to developing a cohort-based model, the City and its partners will expand upon and begin to measure the impacts of farm site developments that balance environmental remediation, stormwater management, and water conservation.