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VeggieRx Summer 2020 Information

6/2/2020

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Fridays June 5 - September 25, 1 - 3:00pm
33 Legion St., Maywood, IL
Go to the VeggieRx page for more information.

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VeggieRx Covide-19 Program Update

5/18/2020

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From April 3 - May 13, 2020
Thanks to the hard work from community businesses, volunteers, and donations, this is what we have accomplished:


Bags of Food Distributed: 1146
Number of Households Served: 568
Number of People Served: About 707
Targeted Impact: 77% of households served include an older adults

We are all in this together - thank you everyone!


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VeggieRx Eligibility Updates

4/13/2020

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Pick-Ups:  Any Maywood resident or current VeggieRx participant (from the Park District VeggieRx setting)

Delivery:  Any VeggieRx participant OR any Maywood resident who answers yes to any of the below:
  • 60 years of age or older
  • Is immunocompromised or someone in household is immunocompromised
  • An essential worker or someone in household an essential worker (ie, healthcare, grocery store, delivery worker, first responder)

Distribution is assessed every week depending on availability, need, and CDC guidelines for social distancing/shelter in place.

If you or someone you know needs food, please call or text to sign-up at (708) 397-6012, or sign-up online at bit.ly/maywoodfood. Signing up gives our team the information we need to confirm eligibility before we respond.

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Printable Flyers for PP4H VeggieRx Food Relief Fund

4/1/2020

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Please print, post, and distribute flyers to your networks!
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VeggieRX Prior to Covid-19

2/18/2020

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Who is Eligible for VeggieRX?
  • LINK Card Participants, or
  • Loyola Medicine Patients, or
  • Residents of Maywood, Bellwood, Broadview, and Melrose Park

Where:     Maywood Park District     921 S. 9th Ave., Maywood, IL
Dates:     Mondays,  Feb. 24 - April 27
Times:     Produce Pick-Up - 3:30 - 6:00pm     Cooking demos  - 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, & 5:30p

For More Information:

Ask your health care provider or contact  Mary Mora:    [email protected] • 708.531.5929

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VeggieRX is in the News!

2/17/2020

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Windy City Harvest
Food as Medicine

Windy City Harvest and VeggieRX.

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Health Care and Food Partnership
Case Studies.  The VeggieRx program began as a partnership between Windy City Harvest and Lawndale Christian Health Center in 2016, with Loyola/PP4H in 2018, and PCC launched a program in June 2019. Windy City Harvest was looking to enhance their ability to address food insecurity and diet-related disease, as well as increase demand for fresh, local food.  MORE
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Work Day On The Rehoboth Blueberry Farm!

1/2/2020

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Help prune blueberry bushes, meet other gardeners, and get some fresh air! This is in partnership with PP4H partner, Iyabo Farms.

If possible, we suggest you bring gloves and protective eyewear.

https://www.rehobothblueberryfarm.com/




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Chicago Tribune Article Features Maywood VeggieRX Program

8/5/2019

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Natasha Hood, center, picks out produce with her daughter Kennedi Hood, left, along with Helen Woods at Veggie RX in Mayood on Aug. 1, 2019. (Stacey Rupolo / for the Chicago Tribune)
PictureCucumbers and squash from the Veggie RX produce stand, grown by Windy City Harvest. (Stacey Rupolo / for the Chicago Tribune)
VeggieRX provides free vegetables to low-income people and patients in Chicago food deserts

By NICOLE BLACKWOOD   CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
AUG 02, 2019 | 4:02 PM 

Ashley Moore, a resident of Oak Park with limited income, travels to Maywood each Thursday for fresh produce. The trek is not entirely by choice, she said. Affordable vegetables aren’t readily available in her area, and she’s been focused on healthy eating of late. 

But Maywood is a food desert.

Cucumbers and squash from the Veggie RX produce stand, grown by Windy City Harvest, in front of Loyola Medical Center in Maywood on Aug 1, 2019. (Stacey Rupolo / for the Chicago Tribune)
VeggieRX, a program implemented by Windy City Harvest, now in partnership with Loyola Medicine and Proviso Partners for Health, has cropped up to fill the void for Maywood residents and individuals like Moore. The program, which now operates year-round, has branches in Austin and North Lawndale, and is currently tied to Loyola’s Maywood clinic.
 
“Rather than waiting for an outside grocery store to come in, or somebody, somewhere, to fix the problem, we asked the question: ‘What could our local Maywood community do to create our own local food system?’” said Lena Hatchett, co-founder of Proviso Partners for Health.


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VeggieRX is in Full Summer Swing!

7/31/2019

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VeggieRX was grilling on July 25 at the Loyola Center for Health, 1211 W. Roosevelt Road, Maywood! The cooking demonstration showed how healthy, low-salt foods can taste great. Windy City Harvest had a pop-up farm stand there, too.

For more information about this free program, ask your healthcare provider or contact Mary Mora: [email protected]   or 708.531.5929

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Veggie RX Starts June 6, 2019

6/11/2019

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Veggie Rx starts June 6!!
Come shop for vegetables, and if you have a LINK card, you qualify for FREE produce!
The produce market is every Thursday at Loyola Center for Health on Roosevelt - 1211 W. Roosevelt Road in Maywood 4pm-6pm
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    Food Justice  Supporting the local food system through urban gardening and farm stands
    • Cultivates health equity and community economic business development
    • Manages the urban agriculture growing, harvest donations, and farm stand sales for the Giving Garden and other PP4H community gardens
    • Educates and trains Proviso youth on urban agriculture and improving job readiness skills 
    • Supports PP4H's Veggie RX no-cost fresh produce distribution program serving local families in partnership with Loyola health clinics​

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