Volunteer with Chicago FarmWorks - October 29th

Heartland Human Care Services (HHCS), in partnership with NeighborSpace Land Trust, operates two urban farm lots in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood called Chicago FarmWorks. We grow, harvest and distribute our produce with crucial support from our volunteers and our transitional job participants who are working to overcome barriers to secure permanent full-time jobs. The produce we grow on our two farm lots goes to our food pantry partners, Breakthrough Ministries Fresh Market and Mission of Our Lady of the Angels food pantry, and Rush University Medical Center where it is distributed directly to hundreds of individuals and families each week. Volunteer tasks vary day to day and include, but are not limited to: harvesting, weeding, picking up trash, shoveling soil/ gravel, wheelbarrowing materials, planting seedlings, building grow beds, laying irrigation drip tape, etc. If you have any physical limitations, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate by offering alternative tasks.