{"id":81427,"date":"2019-08-30T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=81427"},"modified":"2019-09-05T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:33:00","slug":"veggie-co-op-in-north-lawndale-brings-fresh-produce-to-residents-with-dietary-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/veggie-co-op-in-north-lawndale-brings-fresh-produce-to-residents-with-dietary-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Veggie co-op in North Lawndale brings fresh produce to residents with dietary restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Trina Ryan<\/strong>
\nMedill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

On a breezy Saturday afternoon, Reynaldo Engram arrives at work early to sift through boxes of carrots. He performs this task with painstaking precision, holding each carrot up to the light, rubbing his thumb slowly over its dirt-speckled orange skin. As hub assistant at Farm on Ogden, a spacious agriculture facility on the West Side of Chicago, Engram\u2019s responsibilities include anything from watering plants to sweeping floors to cleaning bathrooms. \u201cI do what I\u2019m asked,\u201d says the 59-year-old, smiling. But today he has an important job, one he takes seriously: inspecting produce for defects. He wants to make sure the most attractive-looking vegetables go out to his neighbors of North Lawndale.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want everyone to feel as strong and healthy as I do,\u201d he says. \u201cNot too many folks around here can say they feel that way at my age.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Long buffeted by gun and gang violence, North Lawndale consistently ranks as one of the highest violent crime areas in Chicago. According to a recent study by Rush University Medical Center, nearly half its residents live below the poverty line and more than 20 percent lack health insurance. Rosario Maldonado, 30, a sales supervisor at Farm on Ogden, remembers working as a receptionist at Mount Sinai Hospital and seeing patients come in with \u201cbags of prescriptions,\u201d she says. \u201cIt made me really conscience about my own eating and how I didn\u2019t want to end up with a diet-related disease that required me to take a pill for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, Chicago Botanic Garden teamed up with Lawndale Christian Health Center to launch Veggie Rx, a local initiative that aims to bring healthy foods to SNAP-eligible residents with dietary restrictions. The program, which runs from June to November, allows patients at the health center to receive one free box of produce every week, for up to 10 weeks, along with $100 of coupons to spend at Farm on Ogden\u2019s indoor market. To participate in Veggie Rx, patients must register for at least one complimentary cooking demo and nutrition class, both of which take place at Farm on Ogden\u2019s workshop space, before collecting their first box of produce.<\/p>\n

Truly Gannon, a dietician with the health center who has worked with Veggie Rx patients since the spring of 2017, notes that one of the biggest highlights for participants is knowing what to do with the vegetables once they get them home. \u201cIt gives them a tangible idea to work with, something they don\u2019t always get when talking to physicians about their health,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Farm on Ogden sits opposite the “Beacon of Light” mural on Ogden Ave and Central Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Farm on Ogden sits just under the CTA Central Park Pink Line station, surrounded by nondescript brick apartment homes. The sprawling 20,000-square-foot facility, once a car dealership, resembles a horticultural paradise. High ceilings arch over an indoor market, where, depending on the season, customers can find carrots the size of eggplants and zebra tomatoes that live up to their name. The site comes complete with its own half-acre farm, two aquaponics systems and a 7,300-square-foot greenhouse.<\/p>\n

This being summer, Farm on Ogden is bustling with activity\u2014hundreds of tilapia swim in the aquaponics tanks, honey supers teem with bees, workers sow seeds in the garden. Having such a place in North Lawndale not only incites curiosity among residents; it provides them with a welcome distraction from the allure of the streets.<\/p>\n

A 2017 survey conducted by the Sinai Urban Health Institute revealed two telling pieces of data about North Lawndale: Nearly half its residents were obese, and one in six suffered from depression. While it\u2019s common knowledge that eating fruits and vegetables improves physical health, studies show it can assuage symptoms related to mental health conditions as well. Mike Rogerson, a professor at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, said in a recent interview with NPR that \u201cour bodies physically respond well to environment and nature because of our species\u2019 historical past.\u201d Community gardens\u2014places that symbolize growth, renewal, life\u2014often provide a respite for people living in poverty and areas with high crime, giving them a sense of hope and a reason to make healthy changes in their lives. \u201cPeople who start out worse have more improvement,\u201d Rogerson says. \u201cIt’s a leveler across society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Windy City Harvest and Chicago Botanic Garden teamed up to introduce a food co-op program called Veggie Rx, distributed at Farm on Ogden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Veggie Rx is a part of Chicago Botanic Garden\u2019s agriculture department called Windy City Harvest, which not only oversees Farm on Ogden and its operations, but also offers job placement opportunities for teens and adults. Reynaldo Engram, a former apprentice of Windy City Harvest\u2019s Corps program, a 14-week work study that provides non-violent offenders with transitional job training, has seen his life turn around from teaching others about the benefits of healthy foods.<\/p>\n

Dressed in worn black slacks and bearing a necklace of African-colored beads, he cuts an image less of a farm worker than of a witch doctor. In the middle of his necklace sits a large amethyst crystal, a gift from Maldonado, which he says he wears every day for \u201cgood energy.\u201d Calling himself an \u201coptimistic thinker,\u201d Engram projects an unalloyed happiness. He\u2019ll stop whatever he\u2019s doing to greet customers, often regaling them with his theories of holistic medicine and agriculture, explaining how farming dates \u201call the way back to Egyptian times,\u201d and how our ancestors used herbs to cure diseases instead of prescribing pills.<\/p>\n

Engram came to Windy City Harvest after serving 14 days in the Cook County Jail on 26th Street. Of his incarceration, he says he \u201cwasn\u2019t a bad fella, just a drug-dealer trying to feed his family.\u201d At the age of 18, he felt compelled to the streets, curious about the drug world\u2019s easy access to money. But, according to his account, law enforcement eventually caught up with him. \u201cFor a long time, they didn\u2019t catch me,\u201d he says, \u201cbut when they finally did, they knew who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entering the judicial system for the first time at 52\u2014\u201ca miracle,\u201d he says, for a black man living in a violent neighborhood in Chicago\u2014the judge gave him an ultimatum: two years\u2019 probation and find work, or go to prison. \u201cI\u2019m not really proud of everything I done,\u201d Engram says. \u201cYou make mistakes, and you try to correct them. So for the last four to five years, I\u2019ve been here with Windy City Harvest correcting my mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still growin\u2019 stuff,\u201d he says, a playful grin stretching across his face. \u201cBut now I\u2019m growin\u2019 vegetables.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through her work with Veggie Rx, Truly Gannon says she\u2019s noticed one particular change in her patients: They interact more with their neighbors. On the streets, at convenience stores, in church\u2014people want to tell their friends about the program, \u201ca sign that shows how happy they are and that they want others to be happy with them,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen you see results like that, people start to feel less concerned about the social realities of their situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthony Stephenson, a work study crew member with Windy City Harvest who spent time in prison for burglary, says working outside gives him peace, clears his mind. The stability of having a job has given him more than a paycheck; it\u2019s helped him feel a part of something important. \u201cI\u2019m a part of a crew now, a crew that\u2019s on the right side, not on the wrong side,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Stephenson, 47, wears many hats in his role, including signing up participants for Veggie Rx\u2019s cooking classes. Quiet and observant, with dark, inquisitive eyes, he notes the level of enthusiasm from people in the program, how they engage with the workshops, and continue to come back every week. A father himself, he also points out how health education trickles down through generations: parents teach their children about healthy foods, who then teach their children, and so on.<\/p>\n

Natasha Coleman, a Windy City Harvest apprenticeship graduate and farm coordinator at Farm on Ogden, describes the educational component of Veggie Rx as a \u201cfamily-bonding experience.\u201d Bright-eyed and apple-cheeked, the 22-year-old self-proclaimed tomboy speaks affectionately about the idea of using one\u2019s hands to prepare food\u2014the tactile sensation of connecting with nature, of letting the mind and hands roam free with abandon. \u201cIt puts you back in touch with your childhood,\u201d she says, twirling one of her short dreadlocks around her index finger. \u201cDigging in the dirt, playing with worms\u2014we had no sense of boundaries then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two customers walk through the door, and Engram abandons his box of carrots to greet them. He leads them to a Windy City Harvest placard and begins the tour, his gap-toothed smile beaming.<\/p>\n

Though he seems a natural conversationalist now, Engram remembers a time when talking to people didn\u2019t come so easily. Recalling the cold isolation of the streets, he says, \u201cI didn\u2019t have too many friends, and I didn\u2019t hang with no people. It was always me, myself and I.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farm on Ogden has given Engram more than a sense of pride and purpose, he says; it\u2019s given him a family. Like Stephenson, he feels a part of something greater than himself\u2014that he\u2019s bringing real change to a community, his community. \u201cIt just amazes me,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can put a seed in the ground, and watch it grow. And then you realize that you\u2019re helping millions and millions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: In addition to providing North Lawndale with a community garden, Farm on Ogden’s 20,000-square-foot facility offers a variety of produce at its indoor market. (Trina Ryan\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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