title: "Something good can grow here": chicago urban agriculture food projects.
abstract: Food security is a challenge facing many African-American low-income communities nationally. Community and university partners have established urban agriculture programs to improve access to high quality affordable fruits and vegetables by growing, distributing, and selling food in urban neighborhoods. While the challenge of food security is within communities of color, few studies have described these urban agriculture programs and documented their impact on the crew members who work in the programs and live in the low-income communities. More information is needed on the program impact for crew and community health promotion. Using a survey and focus group discussion from the crew and staff we describe the program and activities of four Chicago Urban Agriculture programs. We summarized the impact these programs have on crew members' perception of urban agriculture, health habits, community engagement, and community health promotion in low-income African-American neighborhoods.
authors.affiliation: a Stritch School of Medicine , Loyola University Chicago , Maywood , Illinois , USA.
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hatchett
authors.forename: Loretta
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hopkins
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Larsen
authors.forename: Eliza
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fournier
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000383:Agriculture; D002641:Chicago; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D005502:Food; D005523:Food Supply; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014495:Universities; D014505:Urban Population; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: community health promotion; community–university food projects; food security; healthy eating; urban agriculture program