Angelic Organics Learning Center can help you build your urban food system project in Chicago. Through our Chicago Urban Initiative, we offer:

Technical assistance to create or improve a growing site for urban food production: We provide guidance on site design and installation, and instruction in sustainable, intensive growing methods to produce food for your community, school, or congregation.

Hands-on gardening and urban agriculture workshops:
* Composting & vermicomposting
* Soil fertility & urban soil safety
* Rooftop & container growing
* City livestock: bees, chickens, goats
* Organic, Biodynamic & biointensive growing techniques
* Year round growing: cold frames, low tunnels, hoophouses
* Harvest & post-harvest handling
* Value-added production
* Marketing & business planning
* Cooking & nutrition

Upcoming public events and workshops in Chicago

Project planning: We guide partners through a participatory planning process for your food system project. Planning assistance includes defining goals, creating a budget and schedule, identifying sources of training, information, funds and materials, and outlining steps to build leadership and self-sufficiency in your project and community.

Food systems presentations: We help your group understand connections among agriculture, hunger and ecology, learn about our local food system, and identify ways that you can use your consumer power and advocacy create change that reflects your values.

Connecting to local farms & community supported agriculture (CSA): Locate and buy directly from farmers who grow for your group or organization.

On-farm tours & programs: Bring your group to our vibrant working partner farm in Caledonia, IL for a farm tour, workshop, or program tailored for your group.

Urban & rural farmer training: Led by the experienced farmers from the Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (CRAFT), we offer business planning, on-farm training, and mentoring.  Our farmer training programs help people learn directly from our region’s best farmers and begin growing for market.

For more information please contact our Chicago staff at 773.288.5462 or chicago@learngrowconnect.org.