For many low income communities, affordable food, especially affordable healthy food, is in short supply. To help address this problem, Heartland Human Care Services (HHCS), in partnership with the City of Chicago, NeighborSpace, Rush University Medical Center, Breakthrough Ministries, and Our Lady of the Angels Food Pantry, operates two urban farms in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood. We are able to grow, harvest and distribute our produce with crucial support from our volunteers and our transitional job participants who are working to overcome many barriers to secure permanent full-time jobs. The produce grown on our farms is donated to Breakthrough Ministries Fresh Market and Our Lady of the Angels Food Pantry, reaching hundreds of individuals and families per week.