INUAg Awards Fundraiser by International Network for Urban Agriculture
The International Network for Urban Agriculture advocates for urban farmers world wide.
Join us as we announce the winners for the Leaders in Urban Agriculture Awards! Celebrate the farmers, activists, and community educators building better food systems.
Tue, September 27, 2016
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Revolution Brewing
2323 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL
Each ticket includes unlimited beer and pub snacks from Revolution Brewery (Featuring vegetarian and vegan options from local farms). With live music from The O’My’s!
Celebrating the 2016 Award Winners!
Each year, INUAg provides funding to urban farming projects building better food systems world-wide. We’re excited to announce the winners of this year’s International Leaders in Urban Ag Awards! #LeadUrbanAg
Urban farming provides at-risk communities access to the fresh food essential to good health, community development, social justice and, ultimately, equality. These projects are all working to bring fresh, local food to our cities. Thank you for sharing your work through INUAg’s Awards!
Read more of each of their stories on the INUAG website, click here!
Educating Communities
Empowering youth, students, or community members to grow food in urban settings
1st Place Peterson Garden Project
Chicago, IL, USA
2nd Place Why Farm
Siparia, St Patrick, Trinidad and Tobago
3rd Place Micro Economic and Agriculture Learning (MEAL) project
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Innovation
Making urban ag more viable
1st Place Planted Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
2nd Place CitiGrow Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
3rd Place The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Detroit, MI, USA
Food Justice // Improving food access in underserved communities
1st Place Bharath Charitable Cancer Hospital & Institute Mysore, Karnataka, India
2nd Place Hoe & Sun Community Garden Warsaw, Poland
3rd Place Urban Household Container Gardening Cagayan de Oro City Mindanao, Philippines
