Grower Programs
Food Justice.
Over the last decade, Advocates for Urban Agriculture has been on the ground, fighting for food justice by dismantling barriers for growing food on Chicago’s South and West Sides.
We organize by and for growers, community gardeners, and home growers through 1.) Calls to Action; 2.) Co-Creating an Urban Agriculture plan via the Chicago Food Equity Council; 3.) Building Bridges Between Residents and Alders in AUA’s Ward Ambassadors Program; and 4.) Catalyzing Chicago’s Growers Union. We build collective power organizing for government accountability and just policies for land, water, labor, and food autonomy.
[Urban Agriculture Plan Listening Session at Whitney Young Magnet High School]
Latest update:
In Partnership with the Chicago Community Gardeners Association, the Next Listening Session for the Urban Agriculture Plan is October 24th!
This session is intended for folks who currently or plant to steward community gardens.
Register here
Calls to Action
[Urban Agriculture Plan Listening Session at Chicago Food Justice Summit]
Support the Hazel M. Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance
Decades of broken zoning and land use policies have concentrated toxic pollution in Chicago’s low-income, Black, and brown communities. These neighborhoods have become "sacrifice zones” where chemical plants, heavy metal scrappers, and other industrial facilities spew pollutants right next to homes, parks, and schools with disastrous impacts on community health and the environment.
The Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance, named after the late Chicagoan and mother of the environmental justice movement Hazel M. Johnson, will consider cumulative health impacts before new pollution sources are allowed to wreak further havoc on already overburdened communities.
Express your support of the ordinance to your alderperson and urge them to co-sponsor and vote “yes” on the Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance!
Use this form, created by Illinois Environmental Council, to send a message of support to your alderperson to urge them to co-sponsor and vote “yes” on the Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance.
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