Volunteer at Chicago FarmWorks

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