In the summer of 2025, in partnership with Alternative School Network, Mama Moore became a One Summer Chicago coordinator– launching our first year of the Agro Ecology Summer Apprenticeship. Since 2011, the City of Chicago’s One Summer Chicago program (now called Chicago Youth Works ) allows youth to be compensated for 20 hours of work per week for 6 weeks throughout the summer at a range of businesses and non-profits across the city.  Summer apprentices build an outdoor cof

Longtime community member, Mama Tchiya, helps harvest cool weather crops like spinach. This year at Mama Moore, our goal was to get our community more involved in  the cultivation and development of the garden while teaching tangible skills such as site carpentry, artmaking, and site maintenance. We achieved this goal through our Pre-Season Ujima Collective Work series which took place in April and May. At each event, we worked collectively to uplift the garden and gathered a

Saturday, April 27th was Mama Moore {Re}Generation Center’s first Ujima Collective Work Day of the year. Ujima  is a Swahili principle that recognizes the importance of community coming together to take responsibility for our shared space as we work to address challenges and build toward a collective vision.   In collaboration with a longtime values-based partner, Sweet Water Foundation , our intergenerational team of over 20 community members was able to fill eight garden be