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Healthy Food Hub
Closing Communities’ Health Disparity Gaps with Food as Medicine
The Healthy Food Hub connects Chicagoland families to nutrient-dense food grown in the Midwest and the fair-trade South, building multiple forms of CommUnity Wealth across 400-plus miles.
Closing Communities’ Health Disparity Gaps with Food as Medicine
The Healthy Food Hub connects Chicagoland families to nutrient-dense food grown in the Midwest and the fair-trade South, building multiple forms of CommUnity Wealth across 400-plus miles.
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Healthy Food Hub
Our Mission
MISSION
To create a just, holistic local food system to transform urban to rural communities through education, entrepreneurship, and access to healthy, affordable food.
MISSION
Our Mission
To create a just, holistic local food system to transform urban to rural communities through education, entrepreneurship, and access to healthy, affordable food.
OUR MODEL
CommUnity Wealth Wheel
The Wealth Wheel is an ecological system that generates social, intellectual, and built capital while honoring the natural capital of care and the regenerative cultivation of land.
OUR MODEL
CommUnity Wealth Wheel
The Wealth Wheel is an ecological system that generates social, intellectual, and built capital while honoring the natural capital of care and the regenerative cultivation of land.
PROVEN IMPACT
Real Results. Trusted Leadership.
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16 + years of grassroots community health intervention through food
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60000 + Farm to Family Boxes of local food delivered to 13 locations during COVID 19 Pandemic
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IL EATS Lead Agency purchased over 1 million dollars of Illinois-grown food distributed throughout Southern Cook County.
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Distributed 60 tons of food to over 20 locations in Southern Cook County, 2024-2025
LEGACY & PURPOSE
Honoring Black Farming Roots
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Pembroke Twp is a historic black farming community that fed Great Migration families from Chicago to Cleveland, Ohio, during Jim Crow. Pembroke Farmers supplied supplied 90% of the vegetables and melons that went into the Hypertension Rx Bags distributed to 250 households across 4 communities
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Weekly delivery of Therapeutic Foods, combined with Food as Medicine training for both families and aspiring healing food fellows, was provided to 250 hypertensive families in Southern Cook across 4 communities. Families learned a 3-point drugless approach to hypertension to address prehypertension and improved control of blood pressure on medications
PROVEN IMPACT
Real Results. Trusted Leadership.
-
16 + years of grassroots community health intervention through food
-
60000 + Farm to Family Boxes of local food delivered to 13 locations during COVID 19 Pandemic
-
IL EATS Lead Agency purchased over 1 million dollars of Illinois-grown food distributed throughout Southern Cook County.
-
Distributed 60 tons of food to over 20 locations in Southern Cook County, 2024-2025
LEGACY & PURPOSE
Honoring Black Farming Roots
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Pembroke Twp is a historic black farming community that fed Great Migration families from Chicago to Cleveland, Ohio, during Jim Crow. Pembroke Farmers supplied supplied 90% of the vegetables and melons that went into the Hypertension Rx Bags distributed to 250 households across 4 communities
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Weekly delivery of Therapeutic Foods, combined with Food as Medicine training for both families and aspiring healing food fellows, was provided to 250 hypertensive families in Southern Cook across 4 communities. Families learned a 3-point drugless approach to hypertension to address prehypertension and improved control of blood pressure on medications
Empowering Communities Through Therapeutic Nutrition
Healthy Food Hub is more than a food program—it’s a health intervention rooted in dignity, education, and access.
We believe food is medicine. Our work focuses on reducing high blood pressure through therapeutic nutrition paired with education, monitoring, and community support. By addressing the root causes of hypertension, we help families take control of their health—one meal at a time.
Healthy Food Hub is a Black Oaks Center initiative, created to bridge the gap between healthcare, nutrition, and community empowerment.
THERAPEUTIC FOODS
Closing the Health Disparity Gap
We combine nutrition education, cultural food traditions, and community support to improve heart health.
In a 12-week program across four communities, 250+ families lowered or maintained healthy blood pressure—without more medication.
LOOKING AHEAD
What's Next: 2026
Celebrating 20 years of being on mission: Healthy Food Hub returns to Chicago with the goal of 500 families getting Rx Bags: Therapeutic Foods, CommUnity Learning Days, Resilient CommUnity of Practice, Production Team, 100 Year Plan Capital Campaign, restore the Southern Black Farmer connection, getting fair trade, cultural foods from southeast United States distributed in the Chicago area for extended harvest distribution, wholesale and institutional sales
LOOKING AHEAD
Celebrating 20 years of being on mission: Healthy Food Hub returns to Chicago with the goal of 500 families getting Rx Bags: Therapeutic Foods, CommUnity Learning Days, Resilient CommUnity of Practice, Production Team, 100 Year Plan Capital Campaign, restore the Southern Black Farmer connection, getting fair trade, cultural foods from southeast United States distributed in the Chicago area for extended harvest distribution, wholesale and institutional sales
What's Next: 2026
Join Us
Partner with farmers, funders, and community members to build a healthier, fairer food system.
OUR MISSION
To create a just, holistic local food system to transform urban to rural communities through education, entrepreneurship, and access to healthy, affordable food.
Tel. (773) 419-3446
Email: Healthyfoodhub@gmail.com
Address: 6735 S. Chicago Ave. Chicago, Illinois. 69643
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