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AUA envisions a flourishing local food system that promotes urban agriculture in Chicago.

06/11/2026

✨Join Advocates for Urban Agriculture and facilitator Fresh Roberson of Fresher Together for the second session in our 3-part webinar series!✨ (en español abajo)

📅 June 25th, 2026 | 5PM–6:30PM
🌱 Community Engagement and Partnerships – Building the Social Soil

Strong farms are rooted in strong relationships. This session explores stakeholder mapping, community engagement, and strategies for building meaningful, non-transactional partnerships that connect individual farm goals to collective community power.

🔗 Register through the link in bio.

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✨Acompaña a Advocates for Urban Agriculture y a la facilitadora Fresh Roberson de Fresher Together en la segunda sesión de nuestra serie virtual de 3 partes.✨

📅 25 de junio de 2026 | 5PM–6:30PM
🌱 Participación Comunitaria y Alianzas – Cultivando el Suelo Social

Las granjas fuertes se construyen sobre relaciones sólidas. Esta sesión explorará el mapeo de actores clave, la participación comunitaria y estrategias para crear alianzas significativas y no transaccionales que conecten metas de su granja con el las necesidades de la comunidad.

🔗 Regístrate en el enlace de la biografía. Interpretación al español disponible.

05/26/2026

🌱✨ NEW WEBINAR SERIES / NUEVA SERIE VIRTUAL ✨🌱

Join Advocates for Urban Agriculture for a 3-part webinar series on farm vision, community, and financial wellness, facilitated by Fresh Roberson of Fresher Together. 🌾

📅 June 4th, 2026 | 5PM–6:30PM
🌱 Understanding Your Purpose and Vision – The Foundational Root

This first session will focus on grounding agricultural practice in identity, motivation, and personal values.

Participants will create their own “Purpose Plot” → a values-based roadmap to guide future decision-making, land stewardship, and resource building.

🌱✨ NUEVA SERIE VIRTUAL ✨🌱

Acompaña a Advocates for Urban Agriculture en una serie virtual de 3 partes sobre visión agrícola, comunidad y bienestar financiero, facilitada por Fresh Roberson de Fresher Together. 🌾

📅 4 de junio de 2026 | 5PM–6:30PM
🌱 Entendiendo Tu Propósito y Visión – La Raíz Fundamental

Esta primera sesión se enfocará en conectar la práctica agrícola con la identidad, las motivaciones y los valores personales.

Las personas participantes crearán su propio “Mapa de Propósito”→ una guía basada en valores para apoyar futuras decisiones, el cuidado de la tierra y el acceso a recursos.

🔗 Register link in bio/ Regístrate en el enlace en bio.
Interpretación al español disponible.

05/19/2026

💚 Chicago-based growers! Join us to discuss water local water policy:
what works?
what doesn't work?
and what we can do to change it?

At this event, we will be asking Chicago-based growers to share their experiences--their successes, their difficulties--with water access, a fundamental yet elusive and expensive resource. 💚

Key subject areas include:
💧Green Stormwater Infrastructure
💧Rainwater Harvesting

📅 Sunday, May 31
⏰ 12pm-2pm
📍 Growing Solutions Farm | 2200 W. Campbell Park Dr.
🔗 Register: Link in bio

Disclaimer: there will be both voice recording and photography at this event. By attending your voice may be recorded and your photo may be taken. If you want to attend but do not want to have your voiced recorded or to be photographed , please let us know and we will accommodate your needs (such as a one-on-one interview).

The event will be catered. If you have any dietary needs, please let us know and choose gluten free or vegetarian when you select your ticket.

Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions thoughts or concerns by May 26, 2026.

05/07/2026

🌱AUA just published a 2025 Impact Report

We made 21 workshops happen and a lot more! Rooted in soil health, water access, climate resilience, and sharing knowledge with growers across the city. Even with everything our communities are facing, people kept showing up for each other 💗

🔗 Check out the full report at the link in bio

🌀What type of workshops did you love? What type of workshops would you like to see happen in the future? resources/tools? ideas? Comment below

04/30/2026

(español abajo)
🐛Advocates for Urban Agriculture and Chicago Food Policy Action Council would like to invite you to join us for our first in person workshop of the year in collaboration with Chicago Patchworks Farm.

🐞The workshop will begin with an Introduction to Biology with our guest educator Clayton Wassilak, who will be discussing the benefits of acquiring a soil microbiome assessment, how it functions and how urban growers can utilize it as a tool to monitor their long term soil health.

🦋This event is all ages, family friendly and free! We hope you can join us.

📅 Saturday May 30th
⏰ 11am – 1pm
📍 Chicago Patchwork Farms | 2825 W Chicago Ave
🔗 Register: Link in bio

Spanish interpretation will be available upon request, contact: Vale Espinoza- [email protected]

AUA's Soil Health Program is partially funded by a subaward grant with the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute.

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🐛Advocates for Urban Agriculture y Chicago Food Policy Action Council les invita a nuestro primer taller en person del año, en colaboración con Chicago Patchworks Farm.

🐞El taller comenzará con una introducción a la biología a cargo de nuestro educador invitado, Clayton Wassilak, quien explicará los beneficios de realizar una evaluación del microbioma del suelo, su funcionamiento y cómo los agricultores urbanos pueden utilizarla como herramienta para monitorear la salud del suelo a largo plazo.

🦋¡Este evento es apto para todas las edades, ideal para familias y gratuito! Esperamos contar con su presencia.

📅 Sábado 30 de mayo
⏰ 11am – 1pm
📍 Chicago Patchwork Farms | 2825 W Chicago Ave
🔗 Register: Link in bio

Interpretación al español disponible a petición, contacta: Vale Espinoza- [email protected]

El Programa de Salud del Suelo de la AUA está financiado parcialmente mediante una subsubvención del Michael Fields Agricultural Institute.

04/28/2026

💚 Chicago-based growers! Join us to discuss water local water policy:
what works?
what doesn't work?
and what we can do to change it?

At this event, we will be asking Chicago-based growers to share their experiences--their successes, their difficulties--with water access, a fundamental yet elusive and expensive resource. 💚

Key subject areas include:

💧Hydrant Use Permits
💧Custodian caps
💧Service lines and rates

📅 Wednesday, May 13
⏰ 5pm – 7:30pm
📍 Marshall Metro High School | 3250 W Adams St
🔗 Register: Link in bio

🌀Apologies for those interested in the May 13, Cover Crops, Virtual Workshop happening at the same time. The events overlap due to availability and program timeline. The virtual Cover Crop workshop will potentially by recorded and shared.

03/18/2026

🌾 Now Hiring: Offers & Needs Market Steward 🌾

AUA is seeking to build an Offers & Needs Market; a community-centered, peer-to-peer exchange platform. This role will support residents in meeting new SNAP requirements by helping to connect growers to volunteers on the South and West Sides.

We envision this work as building a stronger, more connected network of land stewards through mutual aid, resource sharing, and community care.

🔗 Apply at the link in bio Apply by Friday April 3rd

03/16/2026

🌾 Apply by March 30: AUA’s 2026 Farmer-to-Farmer Mentorship Program
The program creates space for Chicago-area growers to learn, share knowledge, and build relationships across our urban agriculture community. This hybrid program pairs beginning and expanding growers (mentees) with experienced earth stewards (mentors) for hands-on learning and skill building. 🌾

Through the program, mentees receive:

💐 24 hours of one-on-one mentorship with experienced growers

🛠 Hands-on workshops on skills like farm finances, infrastructure, community engagement, and marketing

🌿 Support to complete a self-directed farm project

🌎 Access to local agricultural experts and AUA technical assistance (soil testing, water access support, food safety resources, and more)

📅 Program runs April–July 2026
📝 Mentee applications due March 30 at 3 PM
🔗 Apply through the link in bio

Mentors include experienced growers, composters, beekeepers, farm business owners, permaculture educators, and more.

This program is funded through the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust, Food:Land:Opportunity is a collaboration between Kinship Foundation and The Chicago Community Trust.

03/14/2026

🌱 Urban Growers!! Help shape Chicago’s urban agriculture policy!

The Food Equity Council Urban Agriculture Subcommittee has been selected by Chicago United for Equity and the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice to pilot Chicago’s Co-Governance Framework.

We’re inviting urban growers and land stewards to apply to join an Urban Agriculture Subcommittee to help develop 2026–2027 policy priorities and strengthen urban agriculture in Chicago.

📅 April–October 2026
🤝 5 meetings + prep
💰 $2,500 stipend for selected growers

Your lived experience will help remove barriers and shape the future of urban ag in Chicago.

🔗 Apply link in bio.

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🌱 ¡Productores urbanos! ¡Ayuden a dar forma a la política de agricultura urbana en Chicago!

El Subcomité de Agricultura Urbana del Food Equity Council fue seleccionado por Chicago United for Equity y la Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice para pilotear el Marco de Cogobernanza de Chicago.

Buscamos productores y cuidadores de tierra para participar en el Comité de Agricultura Urbana y ayudar a desarrollar prioridades para 2026–2027.

📅 Abril–Octubre 2026
🤝 5 reuniones + preparación
💰 Estipendio de $2,500

Tu experiencia es clave para fortalecer la agricultura urbana en Chicago.

🔗 Solicita en el enlace en la bio.

03/11/2026

🌻 Join us for the Chicago Food Policy Action Council’s Food Justice Summit!

💫 We are gathering and collaborating on ideas that should be included in the urban agriculture plan to make growing food, medicine, habitat and ornamentals more accessible in Chicago. 💫

🌟 We will be hosting a group and break out discussions on various topics affecting growers in Chicago.

🌟 We want to hear about the departments and agencies you’ve encountered and your experiences with them.

🌟 Have an idea that could support other growers? Come share it!

🌟 Have you encountered challenges that you’re not sure how to overcome?

💚 Come tap into mutual support with other growers. Your successes and challenges as a grower in Chicago are welcome in this space.💚

📆 Friday March 13, 2026
🕖 11am-12pm
📍 South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S South Shore Dr
🔗 Registration link in CFPAC’s bio

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Website

http://auachicago.org/

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