4/17/25 –
In 2016, the Chicago Botanic Garden and Lawndale Christian Health Center collaborated to develop the Farm on Ogden, a 20,000-square-foot agriculture facility in a historically disinvested food desert in Chicago, Illinois. The partnership’s VeggieRx produce prescription program refers patients to the Farm on Ogden for free produce boxes, nutrition counseling, and cooking classes. We first describe this unique cross-sector collaboration and then report on our evaluation of the VeggieRx program for the period January 2016–December 2021, using a retrospective propensity score–weighted cohort design…
