Southside Blooms provides jobs and job training to at risk youth on four sustainable urban farms on the South Side of Chicago and Gary, Indiana. It is a project of the Chicago Eco House. Participants get paid to transform urban lots into sustainable flower farms with their own bee hives. They tend the flowers, make … Continued
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