COMMUNITY

Getting Grown Collective is comprised of residents from Chicago's Englewood community. Located on the southside of Chicago, Greater Englewood is a vibrant and dynamic village of skilled, proud and intergenerationally-connected black people with southern roots. Englewood was home to many of the first migrants to flee the south for northern cities in the 1950s and 60s. 

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Over the last few decades, Englewood has experienced waves of change that range from housing one of the world's busiest shopping districts to disinvestment and displacement of families by multi-billion dollar corporations. Nevertheless, residents and community-led organizations continuously work to highlight and uplift the beauty, history and future of the Greater Englewood community.

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As members of the Urban Stewards Action Network and Englewood Village Farms, Getting Grown Collective works with action-based food and environmental organizations "focused on Black and Brown relationship building to cultivate connections and provide peer-based mutual support within the food system in Chicago".