"A Growing Community Enterprise"
Windy City Harvest
In partnership with the City Colleges of Chicago, and delivered by Chicago Botanic Garden, Windy City Harvest is an organic vegetable and plant production enterprise that provides instruction in sustainable horticulture and urban agriculture.
Windy City Harvest creates jobs, opportunity, and hope by training participants to produce high-value, organic produce, which is sold at retail outlets and made available and accessible to local residents.
Who participates?
Young adults from the City of Chicago.
What do the students learn?
Participants acquire hands-on experience with sustainable vegetable production and learn essential business skills, including planning, pricing, sales, and marketing. Students receive six months of hand-on instruction in greenhouse and outdoor growing practices, followed by a three-month paid internship.
Students can also opt for a five-month certificate in cool-weather growing techniques for hoophouses and greenhouses.
After satisfactory completion of the curriculum and training requirements, students achieve certification in sustainable urban horticulture and urban agriculture. The certificate includes credit hours from the City Colleges of Chicago and readies participants for permanent employment in the new “green collar” jobs sector.
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