G4G Chicago + Chicago FarmWorks | August 2, 2025

Spend the Morning on a Farm!

We’re partnering with Chicago FarmWorks to help farm produce that will be sent to food pantry programs. Farm tasks vary day to day and include, but are not limited to: weeding, picking up trash, shoveling soil/ gravel, wheelbarrowing materials, planting seedlings, building grow beds, laying irrigation drip tape, etc.

Date: Saturday, August 2, 2025

Time: 10am – 12pm

Location: 407 N. Albany Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60612

Volunteer Slots: 25

Ages: 18+

Project Lead: Rachna (she/her)

What To Wear/Bring: Wear anything you don’t mind getting dirty! Bring water bottles, sunscreen, snacks, hat, weather-appropriate clothing, boots. FarmWorks provides all farm work items!

Parking/Transportation: The green line at Kedzie is a few blocks away. There is a small parking area with about 15 spaces alongside the farm on Albany Ave. There is also free street parking available nearby on Franklin Blvd.

Additional Details: This event is rain or shine, unless there is severe inclement weather.

About Our Partner: For many low-income communities, affordable food, especially affordable healthy food, is in short supply. To help address this problem, Heartland Human Care Services (HHCS), in partnership with the City of Chicago, NeighborSpace, Rush University Medical Center, Breakthrough Ministries, and Our Lady of the Angels Food Pantry, operates two urban farm lots in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood called Chicago FarmWorks. They are able to grow, harvest and distribute produce with crucial support from volunteers and transitional job participants who are working to overcome many barriers to secure permanent full-time jobs. The produce they grow on their two farm lots goes to food pantry partners, Breakthrough Ministries Fresh Market and Mission of Our Lady of the Angels food pantry, where it is distributed directly to hundreds of individuals and families each week.