From the Source: Truck Farm Chicago with Farmer Sydney

A series of posts where Chicago Health Corps members write candidly about their service experiences.


Farmer Sydney here from Truck Farm Chicago! Farmer Tim, Farmer Shari, and I have been working to get Truck Farm Chicago back on the road for the past 5 months and what a journey it has been . . . Recruiting and organizing volunteers, scheduling school visits, writing many failed grants, and tracking down plants and compost and the season has only just begun (literally, season started last Monday)!

After dead batteries, flying-away hoop houses on Highway 94 (a mini greenhouse-like enclosure we put on the back of the truck to protect the plants), our movie-maker deciding to stay in the Philippians were he was visiting, a hacked website, and a spiffy new paint job, Truck Farm Chicago is back on the road! Keep your eyes out for a roaring engine, bright blue paint job, a truck filled with tiny baby plants, and happy farmers throwing vegetables out the window to gawking children.





One day soon our truck will look like this!