Growing Home’s mission is to operate, promote, and demonstrate the use of organic urban agriculture as a vehicle for job training, employment, and community development. Our unique employment training program uses farming to teach transferable skills to individuals with barriers to employment, giving them the opportunity to secure full-time, stable jobs. Through our USDA-certified organic farms, we also seek to provide healthy, fresh food and food education to our neighbors in Englewood.
Growing Home's mission is to operate, promote, and demonstrate the use of organic agriculture as a vehicle for job training, employment, and community development.
To pursue this mission, we are committed to the following principles:
--Developing innovative urban agriculture initiatives with economic development potential
--Offering a transtional job program that targets people with multiple barriers to employment
--Working in low income communities
--Creating green jobs and stimulating economic opportunity via our organic agriculture business